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It’s costing businesses $2 billion per day. This is how leaders can curb incivility in the workplace
Actionable practices leaders can use to thwart the threat of extinction from a workplace culture of incivility. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Do you remember this familiar adage that we were taught in elementary school? How did that work out during recess? I don’t know about you, but for me, recess was one of the most treacherous times during the school day. For 45 minutes, we had a reprieve from the structure of the classroom and we could roam out of earshot of our teachers. Some of the most vicious words were spewed in almost a whisper, low enough not to catch the attention of our teacher but loud enough to deliver a verbal knockout punch to the intended recipient and onlookers.
Published: 2024-11-25 10:30:00
Building a sustainable home could get more expensive under Trump
The United States is making progress on mass timber and other sustainable building practices, but Trump’s proposed tariffs could derail those efforts. Mass timber construction—which uses factory-made, engineered wood boards and beams as structural and exterior components—has exploded in recent years, exemplified by buildings like Ascent, a high-rise in Milwaukee, and the new terminal at the Portland Airport. Industry group Woodworks predicts 20% growth in new projects. And passive house design, the ultra-energy efficient methodology of building with exemplary insulation, has also exploded, with numerous examples of homes, hospitals, high-rises, and even affordable housing built according to the standard. But this progress is at risk with a new Trump administration coming into power next year. Proposed tariffs by the incoming Trump administration may increase the prices of many items at the store. But for architects and advocates working on more efficient and sustainable buildings, there’s fear that tariffs could impact specific materials and machines that are key to their work.
Published: 2024-11-25 10:30:00
Peek inside Walmart’s giant ‘vending machine’ factory that ships your Black Friday orders
Walmart’s latest shipping facilities hold more than a million square feet of goods that serve 95% of the U.S. population and counting. Walmart’s big plan to win you over this Black Friday involves 80 miles of tracks and 6,800 robots—its latest armaments in a war to rule retail through an otherwise dull word: logistics.Walmart lagged behind Amazon’s quick deliveries and easy digital ordering for years. That was, until it began rethinking its own logistics and investing in subscription deliveries straight from stores. So far, the plan has worked. Walmart’s e-commerce sales are up 20% year over year, while its more premium peer, Target, is struggling.
Published: 2024-11-25 10:30:00
Everyone dumps their trash in this D.C. forest. One nonprofit wants to clean it up
D.C.’s poorest neighborhood has a massive urban forest, and yet it’s plagued by a lack of maintenance, illegal dumping, and deforestation. On a 95-degree day in one of Washington, D.C.’s poorest neighborhoods, Montia Austin makes her way into a wooded area near a busy intersection. Wearing work gloves and a yellow safety vest, she’s on the side of a six-lane road that feels like a highway as cars and trucks speed past her to catch a green light ahead.
Published: 2024-11-25 10:30:00
10 tech gifts to help lower loved ones’ stress levels
From ear plugs to a deep-focus laptop, these gadgets and apps actually prioritize customer well-being. With the holiday shopping season approaching, many of us are thinking about buying the latest, most cutting-edge tech gadgets for our loved ones. I’d suggest another direction: Shopping for devices that help reduce stress and cognitive load. Let me explain what I mean.
Published: 2024-11-25 10:11:00
4 common-sense ways to get a promotion faster
If you want to get a promotion faster, there are some simple steps you can take to put yourself in the best position possible. Chances are, you want a promotion—and you want it faster than it’s likely to come. It is human nature to want to move up, get ahead, and advance your career as soon as you can.
Published: 2024-11-25 10:00:00
Amazon Haul doesn’t go hard enough to beat Temu at its own game
But then again, maybe it’s not really trying to? As you’re shopping for Black Friday, you may notice a brand new arm of Amazon. It’s called Haul. Tucked away in a tab in the top bar of your Amazon app, it quietly sits beside Groceries, but offers a wildly different experience from the Amazon you know.
Published: 2024-11-25 10:00:00
5 behaviors that demonstrate highly effective leadership
Without accountability, even the most talented and well-intentioned leaders fail. These are the behaviors that demonstrate it. Have you ever worked for a leader who made a mistake, a bad decision, or didn’t know the answer to something and, rather than admit it, they deflected it by blaming someone else, justifying it, or acting like it didn’t happen? This lack of accountability happens all too often in the workplace and it undermines trust, engagement, and communication. Leadership accountability is at the heart of any organization’s ability to achieve optimal performance and build a strong culture.
Published: 2024-11-25 10:00:00
One simple way to make sure you don’t regret your next career move
To design a career that’s authentic to you, you must determine how you interact with energy drivers and drainers. The majority of employees—a full 80%—who quit their jobs during the Great Resignation regret the decision. That’s according to a survey by the HR and payroll services provider Paychex. In fact, more than two-thirds attempted to get hired back. While many left because they didn’t want to spend their lives in a job they didn’t like, regret could be due to not understanding how to find a job that would be fulfilling.
Published: 2024-11-25 09:21:00
Meet the USC student rocket club that shattered a world altitude record
Five years after becoming the first students to launch a rocket into space, the University of Southern California Rocket Propulsion Lab soared past 470,000 feet for the highest amateur spaceflight. Such feats have made it a top incubator for space industry talent. This could not be happening. Five years after becoming the first students to launch a rocket into space, the University of Southern California Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) was readying a redesigned model, Aftershock II, for an even higher ascent from Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. But after months of prepping, the weekend before liftoff rolled around with an ominous threat of rain. Even a tenth of an inch could turn the dusty expanse into the same muddy mess that had trapped thousands of revelers at Burning Man there last year. The day before they’d planned to leave, a contact at the Bureau of Land Management sent a photo of the flooded basin.
Published: 2024-11-25 09:00:00
These 4 fantastic sites offer more than 17,000 free online courses
A wealth of knowledge at your fingertips, all for nothing. The kids are back in school, the year is winding down, and maybe—just maybe—you’re finding yourself with a teeny, tiny bit of extra time on your hands.
Published: 2024-11-25 06:00:00
Why are we still talking about return to office?
Bosses have been trying to make employees return to the office for years now. Why are we still having the same conversation? Think of how much has happened since March 2020 when millions of employees started working from home: Two presidential elections, war and humanitarian crises, countless climate disasters, a roller-coaster economy of inflation and interest rates, the birth of ChatGPT and AI anxiety, eight Taylor Swift albums, and an endless string of debates about if, how, and when employees should return to office (RTO).The first wave of RTO started in late 2021 and early 2022. But here we are at the end of 2024 still debating the topic. So what’s really behind the yearslong struggle over return to office and where do we go from here?
Published: 2024-11-24 12:00:00
AI bots could be a new tool to get people to be open about their feelings
The experiment by two professors at the London School of Economics argues that AI could change the game when it comes to measuring public opinion. As the legislative election in France approached this summer, a research team decided to reach out to hundreds of citizens to interview them about their views on key issues. But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher— it was an AI chatbot.
Published: 2024-11-24 12:00:00
These artists are rebranding AI image generation with a new name
A new term has slowly been gaining traction on social media. Will it last? Almost two years ago, the Berlin-based artist Boris Eldagsen made the headlines after winning the prestigious Sony World Photography Award with an AI-generated image, then rejecting the award. “AI is not photography. Therefore I will not accept the award,” he wrote on his website. In a separate statement made a week later, he added an important question: “But what is it?”
Published: 2024-11-24 11:00:00
Higher costs, labor shortages, and strained profit margins: A look at what small businesses could face under Trump
The gap between the president-elect’s claims and market expectations may offer temporary reprieve, but small businesses should prepare for turbulence. A stark reality check looms for America’s 33 million small businesses: While campaign promises suggest dramatic economic shifts, market indicators tell a different story. This disconnect—between political rhetoric and market expectations—creates both uncertainty and opportunity for SMBs, which represent 43.5% of U.S. GDP and employ nearly half of private-sector workers.
Published: 2024-11-24 10:30:00
5 questions to inspire loyalty, motivation, and initiative
It may be time to find new ways to motivate your people to challenge the status quo by expanding their horizons. Have you ever had your patience sorely tested by an overly inquisitive child? You know the type: No matter what you say to them, they always respond with the same question: Why?
Published: 2024-11-24 10:30:00
‘The Great Fractionalization’ might be coming to your C-suite
Hiring a fractional leader can be a winning solution, especially for small and midsized companies looking to grow their brands. The sharing economy has changed the way we vacation, get around, and even dress for fancy events. Why invest a lot of resources into something you need only for a short amount of time, right?
Published: 2024-11-24 10:00:00
Biden administration outlines plan to save Colorado River before Trump takeover
In 2026, legal agreements that apportion the Colorado River will expire. Federal water officials made public on Wednesday what they called “necessary steps” for seven states and multiple tribes that use Colorado River water and hydropower to meet an August 2026 deadline for deciding how to manage the waterway in the future.“Today we show our collective work,” Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton said as she outlined four proposals for action and one “no action” alternative that she and Biden’s government will leave for the incoming Trump Administration — with formal environmental assessments still to come and just 20 months to act.The announcement offered no recommendation or decision about how to divvy up water from the river, which provides electricity to millions of homes and businesses, irrigates vast stretches of desert farmland and reaches kitchen faucets in cities including Denver, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Los Angeles.Instead, it provided a bullet-point sample of elements from competing proposals submitted last March by three key river stakeholders: Upper Basin states Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming, where most of the water originates; Lower Basin states California, Arizona and Nevada, which rely most on water captured by dams at lakes Powell and Mead; and more than two dozen Native American tribes with rights to river water.“They’re not going to take the any of the proposals,” said Sarah Porter, director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University. “The federal government put the components together in a different way … and modeled them to provide near-maximum flexibility for negotiations to continue.”One alternative would have the government act to “protect critical infrastructure” including dams and oversee how much river water is delivered, relying on existing agreements during periods when demand outstrips supply. “But there would be no new delivery and storage mechanisms,” the announcement said.A second option would add delivery and storage for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, along with “federal and non-federal storage” to boost system sustainability and flexibility “through a new approach to distributing” water during shortages.The third, dubbed “cooperative conservation,” cited a proposal from advocates aimed at managing and gauging water releases from Lake Powell amid “shared contributions to sustain system integrity.”And a fourth, hybrid proposal includes parts of Upper and Lower Basin and Tribal Nations plans, the announcement said. It would add delivery and storage for Powell and Mead, encourage conservation and agreements for water use among customers and “afford the Tribal and non-Tribal entities the same ability to use these mechanisms.”The “no action” option does not meet the purpose of study but was included because it is required under the National Environmental Policy Act, the announcement said.In 2026, legal agreements that apportion the river will expire. That means that amid the effects of climate change and more than 20 years of drought, river stakeholders and the federal government have just months to agree what to do.“We still have a pretty wide gap between us,” Tom Buschatzke, Arizona’s main negotiator on the Colorado River, said in a conference call with reporters. He referred to positions of Upper Basin and Lower Basin states. Tribes including the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona have also been flexing their long-held water rights.Buschatzke said he saw “some really positive elements” in the alternatives but needed time to review them in detail. “I think anything that could be done to move things forward on a faster track is a good thing,” he said.Democratic U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado said in a statement the alternatives “underscore how serious a situation we’re facing on the Colorado River.”“The only path forward is a collaborative, seven-state plan to solve the Colorado River crisis without taking this to court,” he said. “Otherwise, we’ll watch the river run dry while we sue each other.”Wednesday’s announcement came two weeks after Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris lost the election to Republican former President Donald Trump, and two weeks ahead of a key meeting of the involved parties at Colorado River Water Users Association meetings in Las Vegas.Kyle Roerink, executive director of the Great Basin Water Network advocacy group, said “snapshots” offered in the announcement “underscore the uncertainty that is swirling around future river management as a new administration prepares to take office.”“The river needs basin-wide curtailments, agreements to make tribes whole, a moratorium on new dams and diversions, commitments for endangered species and new thinking about outdated infrastructure,” he said.Buschatzke declined to speculate about whether Trump administration officials will pick up where Biden’s leaves off. But Porter, at the Kyl Center, said the announcement “shows an expectation of continuity.”
Published: 2024-11-24 09:30:00
How COP29 climate experts felt playing a game simulating natural disasters
Spoiler alert: The game and world were lost. Activists and experts who are pushing world leaders to save an overheating planet learned it’s not so easy, even in a simulated world.
Published: 2024-11-24 09:30:00
The hidden money lessons in the Thanksgiving classic ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’
The John Hughes comedy classic explores the meaning of friendship—but don’t overlook the important money lessons mixed in with the laughs. There’s a reason why the 1987 film Planes, Trains & Automobiles is a beloved staple of the Thanksgiving season. John Candy’s performance of Del Griffith is both hilarious and heartfelt, and the frustration Steve Martin’s character Neal Page feels about his thwarted travel is eminently relatable. The fact that this riotously funny film also offers a sweet and nuanced view of grief, kindness, and generosity is what elevates the film beyond just a road trip comedy. But Planes Trains & Automobiles also offers some surprising lessons about money within the heartwarming story.
Published: 2024-11-23 12:00:00
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