What Does the Ryder Cup Captain Know About Leadership?
What Does the Ryder Cup Captain Know About Leadership? All of us hunger for the lessons inside a story of struggle and victorious perseverance.We’ve all faced moments in our lives when we’ve hit some kind of wall. Hard. What worked before isn’t working now. That kind of moment is at the heart of the Steve Stricker story. Great success. A notorious slump. A remarkable comeback. Inspiring, even if you are unfamiliar with the challenges of professional golf.
Mainframes, ML and digital transformation
‘Digital transformation’ sounds like a parody of meaningless tech marketing, but actually captures some pretty interesting and important shifts in big company tech. It’s not as exciting as crypto or AR, and it takes a decade or two, but it’s just as big as smartphones.
A decade of the Tim Cook machine
In all the enthusiasms, arguments and panics around tech, Apple is the $2tn elephant in the corner, mostly silent and serenely indifferent to the news cycle. It just ships - and it ships market-leading products, with metronomic precision, at massive scale, on a decade-long strategic roadmap. It also likes lecturing its peers. But is there another Jesusphone?
A Futurist’s Guide to Preparing Your Company for Constant Change
The time to prepare for change is not when it hits. It’s before it hits, and during times of relative calm. Reacting to change in the moment keeps you forever on the defensive, and the consequences can be severe. You’re unable to see where the future is heading because your attention is consumed with dodging the next curveball. This exposes your organization to unnecessary risks and overlooks new opportunities. It’s a recipe for frustration and lagging performance at best — collapse at worst. While finding “the right time” to prepare for change can be difficult, there are myriad ways to get started. The author presents four steps leaders can take to prepare their organizations to thrive amid constant change.
3 ways Singapore is creating food security with urban farms
The need to secure food during a crisis and preserve land for a livable climate is changing the focus of farming from rural areas to cities. At the forefront of this shift is Singapore, a city-sized country that aims to produce 30% of its own food by 2030. But with 90% of Singapore’s food coming from abroad, the challenge is a tall order. The plan calls for everyone in the city to grow what they can, with government grants going to those who can use technology to yield greater amounts.
From “Economic Man” to Behavioral Economics
We all know this from personal experience, of course. But in case we didn’t, a stream of experimental evidence in recent years has documented the human penchant for error. This line of research is probably best known for its offshoot, behavioral economics. Its practitioners have played a major role in business, government, and financial markets.
^ADJ: I have just started a Behavioural Science course and finding the work fascinating in how we are influenced
The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine
Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present.