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Sunday, 25 April 2021 05:50

There are 4 modes of thinking: Preacher, prosecutor, politician, and scientist. You should use one much more

So argues Wharton professor Adam Grant in a fascinating new interview. You wouldn't use a hammer to try to cut down a tree, and try to use an axe to drive nails and you're likely to lose a finger. Different physical jobs call for different tools. So too do different mental jobs. Optimism and big-picture thinking will help you sell your business idea. Keeping your books in order requires a more detail oriented approach. Motivating employees requires more empathy than analytical thinking. Different modes of thinking are best suited for different situations, and according to a new interview with star…

Friday, 23 April 2021 06:13

Nigerian teen climate activists create fashion from waste

In Lagos, Nigeria’s megacity, a group of teenagers wade through a mass of plastic bottles, food containers and bags that have blocked a waterway. Wearing gloves and masks, they pick up the discarded plastic and drop them into refuse bags. Their aim is to enable water to flow around the waterway that was constructed to prevent flooding in the city’s Sangotedo district, while raising awareness of the problems caused by single-use plastic. “We need to start now because in a few years it’s going to be too late to do anything,” said Esohe Ozigbo, the 15-year-old climate change activist who…

Thursday, 22 April 2021 04:26

You’re not a leader until you face these 5 pains

Here are the five rites of passage that every leader must go through, why they're so difficult and why they're essential to creating the business of your dreams. It’s not often that every business owner across the globe is faced with the same challenge at the same time. Although the pandemic hit different businesses in a variety of ways - some harder than others - it served as a telling benchmark for leadership. With or without a pandemic, entrepreneurs face inevitable growing pains that serve as rites of passage into leadership. After nearly a decade of working with small business…

Sunday, 18 April 2021 05:38

Does birth order really determine personality? Here’s what research says

Lynn Berger One Friday afternoon at a party, I’m sitting next to a mother of two. Her baby is only a couple of weeks old. They’d taken a long time, she tells me, to come up with a name for their second child. After all, they’d already used their favorite name: it had gone to their first. On the scale of a human life, it’s small-fry, but as a metaphor I find it significant. I think of the proverbs we have around second times—second choice, second place, second fiddle, eternal second. I think of Buzz Aldrin, always in the shadow…

Saturday, 17 April 2021 05:29

Money can buy happiness. Here's how to spend it

Arthur C. Brooks In 2010, two Nobel laureates in economics published a paper that created a tidal wave of interest both inside and outside academia. With careful data analysis, the researchers showed that people believe the quality of their lives will increase as they earn more, and their feelings do improve with additional money at low income levels. But the well-being they experience flattens out at around $75,000 in annual income (about $92,000 in today’s dollars). The news materially affected people’s lives—especially the part about happiness rising up to about $75,000: In the most high-profile example, the CEO of a…

Wednesday, 14 April 2021 05:47

Before his passing, Prince Philip offered this lesson in leadership

The now deceased Duke of Edinburgh felt Meghan and Harry's Oprah interview was a mistake. But not for the reason you might think. Inc. colleague Amy George feels Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Oprah interview was smart public relations. Clearly the couple did, too. Prince Philip, who recently passed away at the age of 99, was less impressed: He called the decision to do the interview "madness," and felt "no good would come from it." Who is right? As with most things, unless you're directly involved, it really doesn't matter. But if you're a leader, the reason why Prince Philip…

Sunday, 11 April 2021 05:33

3 ways your brain actually improves with age

Yes, you might lose your keys more, but aging has its cognitive upsides, according to new research. Our culture is not, to put it mildly, very positive about aging. We're fascinated with those, like Jennifer Lopez and Tom Brady, who seem immune to the years, obsess about appearing youthful, hide away our elders, and hail young wunderkinds from rock musicians to dorm room founders. And the world of entrepreneurship is particularly obsessed with youth, despite a pile of data showing that most successful founders are well into middle age. No wonder so many greet each new gray hair with anxiety.…

Saturday, 10 April 2021 05:35

The surprising habit that can reverse aging — and other science-backed strategies

When you’re young, “biology can seem so distant,” says Andrew Steele, scientist and author of “Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old.” “It’s quite easy to avoid all of that stuff....” But when you are younger is exactly the time to start thinking about how to optimize your lifestyle to age well. “There are huge strides being made in aging biology” that point to ways that we can potentially slow the aging process, says Steele, 35, whose research focuses on the ways that the body ages at a cellular level. “We have loads and loads of different…

Wednesday, 07 April 2021 05:41

How to lead change and get people to follow you, regardless of your role

Anouare Abdou Being a change agent is not as much of an option as an imperative in our day and age. “We live and work in an era of constant, relentless, and wide-ranging change,” says J. Byrne Murphy, chairman and founder of DigiPlex Data Centers and author of “LE DEAL: How A Young American, In Business, In Love, And In Over His Head, Kick-Started A Multibillion Dollar Industry In Europe.” “Left unattended, without tuning, re-tuning and reinvigorating, organizations eventually veer off course and become disrupted by more innovative competitors. In the dynamism of today’s interconnected world, accepting the status quo…

Monday, 05 April 2021 05:24

An economist predicted work from home in 1979. Here’s what he expected

Mitch Daniels My beloved late pastor used to say that a Presbyterian was someone who fell down a flight of stairs and says, “Well, I’m glad I got that over with!” One needn’t be a Calvinist, or one of their theological descendants, a scientific determinist, to appreciate a good coincidence. A delightful one happened to me just the other day. Seeking to double-check a dubious assertion in a book about World War II, I pulled down John Keegan’s authoritative history of the conflict, undisturbed on my library shelf for who knows how many years. When I opened the book, a…

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Sunday, 04 April 2021 05:36

Christianity: God the rock star

God has had a good lockdown. Attendance, like Jesus, is risen. When the Archbishop of Canterbury preaches his Easter sermon this Sunday, Canterbury Cathedral will be almost empty, but his online reach will be vast: he is expected to win a combined audience, online, on radio and on television, of more than 5m people. That is around 2,500 times the usual Easter audience, around a thousand times more than watched Jesus performing the miracle of the loaves and fishes and about the same as watched Elton John performing “Rocket Man” in an online concert this winter. Since lockdown began, churches…

Saturday, 03 April 2021 05:36

What are the differences between white and brown eggs?

Eggs are protein powerhouses and are one of the most versatile foods on the planet. But when it comes to their nutritional content, is one type more healthful than another? Why do their shells range in color from white to brown to blue? And what does the the shade of the shell mean for your omelet? There are many factors to consider when buying eggs, like size, price and label, but should the color of the shell be one of them? Let's break it down. We're not getting into that age-old question of which came first, the chicken or the…

Friday, 02 April 2021 05:17

30 inspirational quotes about foolishness, wisdom, and knowing the difference (for April 2021)

The latest in a series of monthly inspirational quotes for 2021. Yesterday was April Fools' Day, and since foolishness and wisdom are existentially intertwined, here are 30 apt inspirational quotes to start the month off right. 1. "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." -- Bruce Lee 2. "Fear of looking stupid is the #1 killer of dreams. The worst part? The people who make you feel stupid are usually the ones least qualified to judge someone else's life." -- Anthony Moore 3. "Any fool can criticize, condemn…

Thursday, 01 April 2021 05:22

This eating habit could lead to early death by 50 percent - Study

Ordering pizza three times a week perhaps isn’t the healthiest lifestyle choice. A new study may just prove it! A new study according to Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found that eating out or ordering too much delivery might actually be KILLING you. We’ve known for a long time that restaurant food is full of salt and butter, and high in calories. That’s why we love it! But researchers drilled down by tracking 35,000 people who eat a LOT of restaurant food. Everyone in the study said they ate at least two meals a day from restaurants.…

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