Breaking Down Amazon’s (Massive) Health Care Opportunity
Last week, Amazon announced it would expand Amazon Care — its employee-only health care service — to the public. The service lets you chat with nurses, move to video, arrange home visits, and get medication prescribed. Amazon delivers the medicine.
^ADJ: Currently reading: Working Backwards - a book written by two former execs that worked closely with Jeff Bezos - some very interesting insights as to why Amazon is so successful and some of the very disciplined practices that they put in place that are counter intuitive. An example, a ban on PowerPoint and instead the first 20 mins of a meeting is in silence reading a 6 page brief - worth a read, and have some thinking to do as to the practices that could fit into the LondonGreen culture.
Make stress your ally, not your enemy | McKinsey
Managed well, stress can be an ally rather than an enemy. Here’s how to use it to your advantage.
The Next Normal: Business Trends for 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world, and its effects will last. Here are some factors that business leaders should keep in mind as they prepare for the next normal.
Google's unusual move to shut down an active counterterrorism operation being conducted by a Western democracy
Google runs some of the most venerated cybersecurity operations on the planet: its Project Zero team, for example, finds powerful undiscovered security vulnerabilities, while its Threat Analysis Group directly counters hacking backed by governments, including North Korea, China, and Russia. And those two teams caught an unexpectedly big fish recently: an “expert” hacking group exploiting 11 powerful vulnerabilities to compromise devices running iOS, Android, and Windows.
Samsung Warns of Severe Chip Crunch While Delaying Key Phone
^ADJ: Samsung is seeing seeing a ‘serious imbalance’ in global semiconductors and the warning suggests shortages may spread beyond autos. We should we worried the world runs on silicon - and the build time of a Fab is years - this is going to have interesting implications for most of 2021.