What a time to be managing a team.
On a macro level, being a manager is a more complicated role than it used to be: Employees increasingly approach their bosses with more personal and professional issues than before the pandemic, according to 59% of managers in a recent Prudential survey. They also say they want more guidance and training from their companies on how to handle ever-changin…
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In the run-up to the Sony-produced Spider-Man spinoff Madame Web, the movie’s star, Dakota Johnson, endeared herself to everyone who loves to see a celebrity veer off-script. In Entertainment Weekly she articulated the absurdity of trying to give a real performance against the fake reality of a blue screen. In L’Officiel she decried the greed and stupidity of stre…
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The U.N. climate conference known as COP28 officially kicked off this afternoon in Dubai with more corporate executives and big players in the financial sector present than in any such meeting before. Much of their attention on the ground will focus on the private sector announcements …
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Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition, and the series of content policy changes that ensued, has led to a dramatic spike in hateful, violent and inaccurate posts on the platform, according to researchers. That’s now the top challenge for Twitter’s new Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino, who has to address advertisers’ concerns about the trend in order to boost revenue and…
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If there’s one thing media outlets from across the political spectrum agree on, it’s that the arraignment of Donald Trump is a “spectacle” and a “circus.” These are the words that came up, over and over again, on cable news in the 24 hours before the former President of the United States faced a judge in Manhattan—as though the networks’ own aroun…
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Just in time for the Academy Awards on March 10, Oscar-winning classics like Bonnie & Clyde and Out of Africa are coming to Netflix. And for party animals, National Lampoon’s Animal House starts streaming on March 1.
In terms of Netflix originals, the documentary series Full Swing, all about who’s who in golf, is teeing up for a second sea…
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Andy Yen is the founder and CEO of Proton, the company behind the encrypted email service ProtonMail and a suite of other privacy-focused products that are threatening …
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During the early years of the Cold War, an array of underwater microphones monitoring for sounds of Russian submarines captured something otherworldly in the depths of the North Atlantic.
The haunting sounds came not from enemy craft, nor aliens,…
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Fall of the House of Usher.
From the start of the first episode of The Fall of the House of Usher, we know that all of Roderick Usher’s children are dead. It’s the how and the why of their deaths that plays out over the course of Mike Flanagan’s new horror anthology series, now streaming on Netflix. Read more