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Surpass your limits Sometimes, when it comes to achievement, our biggest enemy is ourselves. “We have an infinite capacity as human beings to tell ourselves stories, and the most important one we tell ourselves is about ourselves,” says performance coach Jennifer Lea, director of client relations at Johnson & Johnson’s Human Performance Institute. She says there are differences between...

Postal service covert operations program A new report says the U.S. Postal Service has run a secret surveillance program targeting protestors on social media, and its reasons have no apparent connection to delivering the mail. Reporting for Yahoo News, longtime investigative journalist Jana Winter uncovered a document from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service describing an “Internet Covert Operations...

Joint venture company examples Innovation is a team sport. That is certainly true within companies, but it’s also the case when two organizations partner up to do something novel. For the first time, we decided to recognize the most compelling new joint ventures, taking an expansive view of the concept to include strategic, one-off collaborations, civic-minded public-private initiatives,...

Amazon web services ceo In 2005, a new Amazon recruit named Adam Selipsky joined a small team working on a project that was seemingly far afield from the company’s core business of selling products such as books, laptops, and baby supplies over the internet. Amazon Web Services, as it was known, would give any business pay-as-you-go access to...

Source of happiness There are days when the world can feel extremely chaotic and overwhelming in complexity—whether it’s politics, the economy, global issues, or just the stress you face at work or at home. Through it all, happiness is a key priority. People want joy, contentment, and satisfaction in their work and life. While happiness may seem fleeting,...

City bans gas stoves The federal government isn’t planning to ban gas stoves, despite one official saying that “anything was on the table” because of the health hazards of burning gas in your kitchen. But dozens of cities—and some states—are already moving away from natural gas in a way that will make it useless to buy a gas stove, even if...

Vcbacked nlrb Jamie Earl White grew up in a rural Texas town near Uvalde where there was a clear resources divide between “the ranching class and the non-ranching class.” As an MIT student, he took careful notes during Occupy Boston and helped lead the “Justice for Janitors” campaign—a lesson in how, even with the support of the powerful...

Map of oregon fires Historic wildfires continue to burn across the western United States, causing tragic loss of life, mass evacuations, insurmountable damage, and a vast haze of deep orange in the skies. The fires have been raging out of control from Southern California, through Oregon, and up into the northern tip of Washington State, and they include...

massage Are all percussion massagers created equal? Of course not—at least not if you ask the big-name brands in the market. They boast repetitions per minute in the thousands, show off their motors, and emphasize power, speed, and force. They were called massage guns, but now often deemed percussion therapy devices. massage gun knows exactly But sometimes, it...

American express logo American Express has a new logo, but it probably slipped under your radar. It’s part of a complete brand redesign led by Pentagram partner Abbott Miller. The credit card company has swapped out its blue box with a gradient for . . . a blue box without a gradient. “We didn’t want people to say,...