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This is the season the link between a happy family life and the ability to thrive in your career may be most clear. After a bruising year, many of us are spending the holidays retreating ( as much as the pandemic allows ) to our loved ones to reset, recharge, and be reminded of why we work so hard the rest of the year. The chaos of 2020 has really brought the importance of family home. If you need science to confirm this, there are a bunch of studies that show a happy and stable partnership, in particular, is likely to make you more successful professionally . How do you maintain these, the most important relationships in your life? There are approximately a zillion articles out there offering advice from everyone from the long married to divorce lawyers , but according to a big new review of the relevant science in the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science , the most important factor for happy relationships boils down to just one characteristic -- psychological … [Read more...] about A Review of 174 Studies Concluded This Is the Most Important Quality for Happy Relationships

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The digital wing of Viacom 18, VOO VOO T, has mostly dabbled in thrillers when it comes to originals from the platform. Therefore, it was a huge leap when they announced the sports docu-series, Bandon Mein Tha Dum The Baap of all Fightbacks . The Head of SVO VO D and International Business at Viacom18 Ferzad Palia talks about their new sports docu-series. India’s victory in the 2021 Border Gavaskar Trophy Test Series, especially the climax of the series, had all the elements of dramatic cinema. How the Indian team endured the worst humiliation, lost all their star players and bounced back after being completely written off, was the perfect recipe for a revenge-redemption-Cinderella-underdog story. Bandon Mein Tha Dum taps into the potential and came out earlier this month. Elaborating on the importance of the story being told, Palia says, “It is not like the World Cup. Winning world cup (India won the cricket … [Read more...] about ‘Bandon Mein Tha Dum’: Why It Was An Important Story

This past week more than 4 million Texans found themselves without power and approximately 12 million went without clean water. It was unexpected, tragic, and many people were unprepared for the storm and the aftermath that followed. As a business coach for over 25 years, I have seen the repercussions of the unexpected in the business realm and it's not unlike what has happened in Texas. I have seen business owners struggle to regain their forward momentum after a devastating blow of losing a partner or a key team member. I have seen what happens when a business doesn't have strategic depth and hasn't planned for the unexpected. I have seen what happens when an owner thinks that " it could never happen to us ." Fortunately for most business owners, there are steps that you can take now to be prepared in the future for the unexpected. The Hit by the Bus Test. Would your business be able to stand the hit by a bus test? Strategic depth is your company's ability to … [Read more...] about The Important Lesson We Should All Learn From The Recent Winter Storm In Texas

The company planning to buy Donald Trumps new social media business disclosed Monday that it has received subpoenas from a grand jury in New York. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. dropped 7% in morning trading Monday as the company reported that the subpoenas and related investigations by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission could delay its acquisition of the maker of Trump's Truth Social app. Trumps social media venture launched in February as he seeks a new digital stage to rally his supporters and fight Big Tech limits on speech, a year after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. The Trump Media & Technology Group which operates the app and was in the process of being acquired by blank-check firm Digital World said in a statement that it will cooperate with "oversight that supports the SECs important mission of protecting retail investors. Digital World said in a regulatory filing Monday that each member of its … [Read more...] about Company buying Trump’s social media app faces subpoenas

- A + A ZURICH/GENEVA (June 27): Credit Suisse Group AG was convicted of failing to prevent money laundering by a Bulgarian cocaine trafficker, in the first ever criminal conviction of a major Swiss lender in the country’s history. The verdict, in which a former relationship manager at the bank was also convicted on money laundering charges, was handed down by Switzerland’s top criminal court on Monday afternoon. The woman was given a 20-month suspended prison sentence, while Credit Suisse faces a fine of 2 million Swiss francs (US$2.1 million) and was also hit with a claim of 19 million francs, equivalent to the amount the bank allowed to be laundered. The judgment is another blow to the tarnished reputation of Credit Suisse, which had argued the crimes date to an era when compliance standards were less stringent. It has been struggling with a series of scandals that have sent its shares to near-record lows, and may face a second criminal indictment in an … [Read more...] about Credit Suisse convicted in historic money-laundering case

- A + A COLOMBO (June 27): Sri Lanka will shut schools and only allow fuel supplies to services deemed essential like health, trains and buses for two weeks starting Tuesday, a minister said, in a desperate attempt to deal with a severe shortage. Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis, with foreign exchange reserves at a record low and the island of 22 million struggling to pay for essential imports of food, medicine and, most critically, fuel. Industries like garments, a big dollar earner in the Indian Ocean nation, are left with fuel for only about a week to 10 days. Current stocks of the country will exhaust in just under a week based on regular demand, Reuters calculations show. Sri Lanka will issue fuel only to trains and buses, medical services and vehicles that transport food starting Tuesday until July 10, Bandula Gunewardena, the spokesman for the government cabinet, told reporters. Schools in urban areas will be shut and everyone is urged to … [Read more...] about Sri Lanka stops fuel supply to non-essential services as crisis worsens

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob (filepix) - A + A KUALA LUMPUR (June 27): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob today announced an additional allocation of RM100 million for the Informal and Micro Financing Scheme (SPIM) under the National Entrepreneur Group Economic Fund (TEKUN). He also announced an additional allocation of RM30 million for the Bumiputera Enterprise Enhancement Programme (BEEP) under SME Corporation Malaysia. "I was told that SPIM under TEKUN was allocated RM200 million by the government earlier which had exhausted and the allocation of RM20 million for BEEP for 2022 had also been taken up. "SPIM loans are popular for financing by informal and micro traders...in the interest of small entrepreneurs, I have announced another RM100 million allocation for SPIM. “I also announced RM30 million more allocation for BEEP,” he said when speaking at the Entrepreneur Excellence Awards 2022 in the federal capital here on Monday … [Read more...] about Additional allocation of RM100 mil for SPIM TEKUN, RM30 mil for BEEP, says PM

(CNN) Following the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, CNN Opinion asked a group of contributors to weigh in on the cultural, legal and political ramifications of this monumental legal opinion undoing nearly 50 years of federal abortion protection. The views expressed in these commentaries are those of the authors. SE Cupp: What politicians get wrong about the abortion debate I'm deeply worried for our country. Read More No matter where you stand on the issue -- I'm pro-life but do not support a ban on abortions -- this ruling represents a seismic shift in American life as most of us knew it. I'm 43, and Roe is older than I am. There are more people alive today who have never known an America without Roe than there are people who lived without it. Stripping away what many women have only known as a right for nearly 50 years, without putting anything in its place is dangerous. Criminalizing … [Read more...] about Opinion: The aftershocks of America’s abortion earthquake will be felt for decades

Beau Wangtrakuldee, Ph.D., is a scientist, entrepreneur, and founder of AmorSui, a modern protective apparel company redesigning personal protective equipment (PPE) to empower women with greater function and protection in lab and medical settings. She spoke to Doreen Lorenzo for Designing Women, a series of interviews with brilliant women in the design industry. advertisement advertisement Doreen Lorenzo: Have you always had an interest in design? Beau Wangtrakuldee: The way I think about it, science and design are really closely related. You design to solve a problem. You conduct a science experiment to solve a problem. I’m a former Ph.D. scientist, so I’d work in the lab on drug discovery, antibacterial drugs, and material science. It’s all about problem-solving, creating something that can actually resolve an issue or a challenge. What inspired you to launch AmorSui? advertisement One day when I was conducting an … [Read more...] about Yes, PPE can be reusable. AmorSui is making sure of it

There’s no way Milan could have known what was coming, but in the years leading up to the pandemic, the city was preparing as if it had seen the future. advertisement advertisement In 2018, the city started a large-scale reinvention of its public space, focused specifically on land that was dedicated to car parking in neighborhoods that had little green space. Those spaces, with simple interventions, were converted into new public plazas . As the pandemic set in—Milan was one of the first epicenters of the outbreak in Europe—these outdoor spaces became essential lockdown escapes. Launched as part of Mayor Giuseppe Sala’s plan to make a more resilient and livable city by 2030, the piazza creation effort has been spearheaded by Bloomberg Associates , the consulting arm of Bloomberg Philanthropies. The program is being implemented under the guidance of Janette Sadik-Khan, who served as New York City’s transportation commissioner during Michael … [Read more...] about Milan turned 250,000 square feet of parking into public space