~Octavia Spencer
I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.
~Alia Bhatt
Minister sues over developer claims
A minister who campaigned against development of his electorate is stung by the accusation that he used intimidation tactics to get a building project approved.
Former McKinsey Executive Imprisoned by Saudis Wall Street Journal As one former McKinzoid noted, “I remember a time when acquisitions were as verboten as operating in dodgy countries….”
Australia is now a popular destination for a Chinese wedding photography craze SBS. Kevin W: “Not just Australia either. Chinese pre-wedding photos are apparently big thing with the Chinese
It is harder and harder to get NSW Parliamentary Press Party Bloopers - The Best News Bloopers of 2018
204 minutes late: Sydney Trains descend into chaos on New Year's Eve
Pill testing a giant leap for common sense
'Pill testing should not be off the table': NSW Labor leader
NSW Labor leader Michael Daley says the Opposition will not rule out testing recreational drugs at music festivals.
'Gladys needs to be more open-minded': Libs urge Premier to rethink pill testing
The Premier's opposition to pill testing appears to be wavering after another drug-related death at a music festival.
Top architects are left stunned by giant cracks that appeared in Sydney’s Opal Tower just months after the $165million building opened – as it’s revealed the block was built on a reclaimed swamp Daily Mail. From last week; the start of a continuing story. And ametaphor for the Australian housing market
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'Chasing 20 seconds of fame': Blame game over Opal Tower
The NSW government and Labor opposition traded barbs over the Opal Tower building woes.
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The Semi-Secret Bootleg Video Vans Of The Soviet Union
Elmar Hashimov writes about how he and his peers, the last generation of kids to grow up in the USSR, watched still-illegal American films (and learned English) on VHS tapes, dubbed on the down-low, inside parked transit vans tricked out with a TV and VCR. — The Atlantic
A Bit Of Stalinist Utopian Design, Now Available On AirB&B
A pair of architectural history buffs bought this 377-square-foot apartment in a 1932 Constructivist building in Moscow, restored it, and furnished it with copies of avant-garde Soviet furniture and design, including the famous Suprematist chair and table by Nikolai Suetin and upholstery from a design by artist Lyubov Popova. All yours for a mere $75 a night. — The Art Newspaper
Bringing
managers back to work
As a result of the digital shift,
businesses are in the midst of an organizational transformation. Take agile,
for example: small, self-managed multidisciplinary teams with end-to-end
control of development and rapid activity cycles. While it started in software
development, it spread to a variety of industries.
n What needs to come next is a
transformation in the role of management. Some suggest that agile development
undermines the status and control traditionally held by a manager. However,
these developments simply change and enhance the role of managers.
n Traditionally managers may have allocated tasks
to certain employees to reach an objective. Now, managers must frame tasks in
order to create employee buy-in and facilitate successful sprints. Managers
must act as the product owner and help manage behaviour. Finally, managers
shape the organizational context, creating successful teams by helping
employees understand how their immediate objectives relate to the
organization’s strategic goals. Boston Consulting Group, Companies are revolutionizing how people work. Now they need to transform how managers manage
—Tweet from CNN, America’s hall monitor*, as spotted by Twitchy in a post headlined, “Teen climate activist calls on young people to tap into their anger at older generations who ruined everything.”
Chaser:
“In the first place, I would like to observe that the older generation had certainly pretty well ruined this world before passing it on to us. They give us this Thing, knocked to pieces, leaky, red-hot, threatening to blow up; and then they are surprised that we don’t accept it with the same attitude of pretty, decorous enthusiasm with which they received it.”
—John F. Carter, “‘These Wild Young People’ by One of Them,” the Atlantic Monthly, 1920.
According to a survey by QuantumWorkplace, almost one-third of employees do not understand why significant
organizational changes such as restructurings, regulatory changes and mergers
and acquisitions are occurring in their organizations.
n According to the Harvard Business
Review, this can be detrimental for any company trying to implement change.
Employee resistance, which often results from misunderstanding, is a leading
factor in failed change transformations.
n In order to ensure employees
understand change, those implementing the change must provide a compelling
vision for the future, provide regular communications, empower people to lead
through change, and find creative ways to involve employees in the change.
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