Scientists "don’t think people realize how little time we have left,” to stop irreversible and disastrous changes to Earth’s climate systems. But there is hope.
Something as simple as ending a greeting with an exclamation point can make a big difference to the user experience. "That exclamation mark is one of the smartest things Lemonade did, because they're excited to see me; that exclamation mark is the digital equivalent of a smile. So, I...
They found that people tended to ascribe human qualities to the chatbot. According to Harvard University economist David Deming, GenAI has had a faster adoption rate than the internet or personal computers. Now, that could include image generators too, but I think mostly we're talking...
In this chapter, we discuss traditional change models, such as Lewin’s three-phase unfreezing model and Kotter’s eight steps. We also focus on misconceptions about change leadership, for example around top managements’ role, positioning of change...
In case you haven’t been paying attention for the last decade-and-a-half, democracies have fallen on very hard times and been rolled back in many countries (see The Economist’s annual surveys on the state of democracy, for example). That distemper is now in our streets and it is ...
Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour is necessary to reduce CO2 emissions and limit global climate change. Many reviews and meta-analyses have been published examining the effectiveness of interventions to promote pro-environmental behaviour. Yet, it
Those pearls of wisdom seemed to ring true during every economist's forecast of 2012. Hopes of the housing market finally turning the corner in 2010 were dashed after the federal gov- ernment's homebuyer tax incentive program came to a close and starts deteriorated sharply, according to ...
Sonal: Huh, an economist’s view of DevOps. I love it. Jez: You’re right. You reduced my entire body of words to one sentence. Dr. Forsgren: It’s so much Conway’s Law, right? Sonal: Remind me what Conway’s Law is. Dr. Forsgren: So organizations which design systems are...
You may want to listen to this clip from V the guerilla economist. I couldn’t sleep for days after I understood how it tied into Jade Helm 15 and what’s coming. He talks about a coop also, but says most of the purged generals are running for the hills. https://youtu.be/Ffc82K8...
“we should not allow today’s crisis to compromise the clean energy transition”. Governments should scrap $400bn in fossil fuel subsidies and back energy efficiency, as well as clean energy and infrastructure. Stéphane Hallegatte, the World Bank’s lead economist on climate change,points to ...