We often hear stories of leaders who occasionally participate in entry-level work at their respective companies, but what is the reasoning behind this? Why do good leaders need to know how to work at every level of an organization?

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Don’t squander your audience’s generosity by delivering a substandard presentation peppered with phrases that sound like you don’t care.

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Would you want to plan the next 10 years of your life? Terrifying as that sounds, the Decade Calendar lets you do exactly that. Why would anyone want to do this?

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According to a concept called “embodied cognition,” which is the concept that the brain doesn’t act as if it is completely divorced from physical signals, there are certain environments or even objects that could increase your chances of getting a raise. Is this impressive, or impractical?

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Researchers at Michigan State University are exploring the idea that there’s more to “social media addiction” than casual joking about being too online might suggest. Their paper, titled “Excessive social media users demonstrate impaired decision making in the Iowa Gambling Task”, indicates that people who use social media sites heavily actually display some of the behavioral hallmarks of someone addicted to cocaine or heroin.

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Scooter startup Bird is raising $300 million in an extension of its previous fundraising round led by the financial giant Fidelity - in what seems to be an attempt to help solve some of the ‘First Mile, Last Mile’ issues in the US. Would scooters work here in Malaysia though? Would you feel comfortable scooting to the transportation terminals?

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It’s always been said that your environment affects you mentally as well, and that’s also true of productivity. Turns out, it’s pretty simple to redesign your work space in a way that will make you more productive.

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The fight between taxi drivers and Grab drivers isn’t slowing down. Recently the Road Transport Department (JPJ) issued summons to one of Grab’s drivers, prompting the company to question the authorities if they were “deliberately” misinterpreting laws. Will this battle ever end?

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According to a study by Science Advances, 11% of users older than 65 shared fake news articles, while just 3% of users 18 to 29 did. So why is the older generation more susceptible to sharing fake news?

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Former Facebook employees say they felt pressure to remain positive and were discouraged from speaking up while working for the social-media giant, some even characterised the internal culture at Facebook as “cult-like.”

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