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☆ What’s in Our Queue? Jorge Ben and More
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Jesse Drucker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

What’s in Our Queue? Jorge Ben and MoreI’m an investigative reporter for The Times’s Business desk. I’m on leave writing a book on the U.S. tax system. All the solo writing means I’m listening to even more music than usual. (And watching more TV and movies — for “inspiration.”)Here are five recent favorites →

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☆ France's Breillat back to breaking taboos at Cannes with 'Last Summer'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Caption : The 76th Cannes Film Festival - Screening of the film "L'ete dernier" (Last Summer) in competition - Red Carpet Arrivals - Cannes, France, May 25, 2023. Director Catherine Breillat, cast members Lea Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Samuel Kircher and producer Said Ben Said... Read moreCANNES, May 25 (Reuters) - French director Catherine Breillat's new erotic thriller "Last Summer," premiered on Thursday night, bringing her taboo-breaking style to the Cannes Film Festival. Lea Drucker, who won France's top Cesar award for best actress in 2019's "Custody," stars as Anne, while newcomer Samuel Kircher plays Theo. Olivier Rabourdin, from "Taken" and "Midnight in Paris", is the husband, Pierre. Breillat called that film her most accessible work, as it was "completely unlike the films I usually make in that it does not break any taboos".

CHICAGO, May 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. supply chain is healing from early pandemic shocks that sent shipping costs skyrocketing and squeezed supplies of everything from toilet paper to pasta, but more than three years later, material shortages and hiring woes linger. Speakers from Walmart (WMT.N), Colgate-Palmolive (CL.N), Toyota (7203.T) and other companies will discuss their supply-chain strategies at the Reuters Events supply chain conference in Chicago on Wednesday and Thursday, as inflation and interest rate hikes threaten to tip the economy into recession. "Freight costs, logistics, have gone down significantly," said Mario Guerendo, who oversees global supply chain for vehicle engine maker Cummins Inc (CMI.N). After spending whatever it took to keep store shelves stocked during the early days of the pandemic, supply chain executives now are wringing out costs to shelter profits from eroding demand, said Alan Amling, distinguished fellow at the University of Tennessee's Global Supply Chain Institute. "That's a really good thing for the supply chain."

Speakers from Walmart (WMT.N), Colgate-Palmolive (CL.N), Toyota (7203.T) and other companies will discuss their supply-chain strategies at the Reuters Events supply chain conference in Chicago on Wednesday and Thursday, as inflation and interest rate hikes threaten to tip the economy into recession. "We've still got certain sectors that are up and some that are down, which was a feature of the pandemic," Croke said. That's even true within sectors, Croke added, pointing to recent manufacturing data, which remained depressed even as segments like motor vehicles reported gains. After spending whatever it took to keep store shelves stocked during the early days of the pandemic, supply chain executives now are wringing out costs to shelter profits from eroding demand, said Alan Amling, distinguished fellow at the University of Tennessee's Global Supply Chain Institute. "That's a really good thing for the supply chain."

☆ Inside the 5-hour psychological interview that can make or break your career at Citadel, Blackstone, and other finance titans
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | Alex Morrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

ghSmartThe company's unusual but rigorous approach to screening job candidates has won it the trust of some of the finance industry's most competitive and coveted workplaces, as well as other blue-chip corporations. "That became the kernel for ghSmart," Smart recounted in a podcast interview. That means the ghSmart interview isn't something you can necessarily prepare for in the same way you might, for example, read up on certain stocks or industry trends. The company's team of psychologists spends hours drilling into each candidate's job and life experiences. Unlike some executive-search firms, ghSmart disconnects its fee from whether it fills the role.

☆ Top Companies for Innovation
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Microsoft is the No. 1 company overall in the Management Top 250 and is in the top 10 in four of the five main ranking categories. Microsoft Corp. scored highest for innovation in the latest Management Top 250 ranking, followed by Amazon .com Inc. and Exxon Mobil Corp. The Management Top 250 ranking, developed by the Drucker Institute, measures corporate effectiveness by examining performance in customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility and financial strength.

Hong Kong/Tokyo CNN —Masatoshi Ito, the Japanese billionaire who turned 7-Eleven convenience stores into a global empire, has died aged 98, closing the chapter on one of Asia’s most storied retail entrepreneurs. A 7-Eleven convenience store in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, on January 9, 2023. So, how did 7-Eleven become synonymous with the Japanese convenience store culture as we know it today? He renamed the company Ito Yokado and started running the business like a US supermarket. Ito Yokado was renamed Seven & I Holdings in 2005, and Ito remained its honorary chairman until his death.

☆ This startup found success using A.I. to build beauty products. But can it keep making money?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Oddity Il Makiage Coutesy: OddityOddity — the direct-to-consumer beauty and wellness platform known for its ubiquitous Il Makiage social media ads — is making money and growing in an environment that's increasingly risky for purely digital retailers. Since its U.S. launch in 2018, Oddity has achieved profitability, the company said, making $380 million in gross sales in 2022. In Spoiled Child's first year on the market, the new brand brought in $48 million in gross sales. Oddity builds out new products and brands by using its tech to figure out what customers are looking for. Oddity is in the process of integrating the tech into its Il Makiage powermatch quiz to improve accuracy.

Feb 13 (Reuters) - Banking and payments processing conglomerate Fidelity National Information Services Inc (FIS.N) took a $17.6 billion write-down on its merchant business as it unveiled plans on Monday to spin it off, undoing a $43 billion acquisition that went sour. FIS built its merchant business, which processes transactions for companies, on the back of its $43 billion purchase of WorldPay four years ago. "The pace of disruption in payments is rapidly accelerating, requiring increased investment in growth and a different capital allocation strategy for our merchant solutions business," FIS Chairman Jeffrey Goldstein said in a statement. Charles Drucker, the former CEO of Worldpay, will lead the merchants business after it is spun out, FIS said. Merchant solutions makes up about 30% of FIS' revenue, while its banking solutions arm constitutes about 46%, and capital market solutions the remainder.

☆ The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times Talk The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You DownWe’ve been given no shortage of digital tools that should, in theory, help us work better, with more focus and efficiency, and connect us more easily with our colleagues. Your brain can’t have your inbox open next to the memo you’re writing while you’re also on the phone. The only way to get out of that suboptimal equilibrium is to completely change the way the organization collaborates. You can’t have a small number of executives figure out the right way to do the work and then dispense it. But zoom out to John McPhee’s career, and you’re like, you’re one of the most productive and impactful writers of all time.

☆ How the Management Top 250 Rankings Are Picked
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The Management Top 250 ranking is based on a holistic measure of corporate effectiveness that was developed by the Drucker Institute, a part of Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif. The measure seeks to assess how well a company follows a core set of principles advanced by the late Peter Drucker , a professor, consultant, author and longtime Wall Street Journal columnist. These principles serve as touchstones for five dimensions of corporate performance: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility and financial strength. They are standardized so that the typical range is 0 to 100, the mean is 50 and the standard deviation is 10. If a company is one standard deviation below the mean (with a score of 40), its results fall in the bottom 15% to 20% of that larger universe.

☆ Among the Best-Managed Companies of 2022, Some Warning Signs
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Chris Kornelis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Some of the companies in this year’s ranking of the 250 best-managed companies have a weak spot that may be worth paying attention to. When the Drucker Institute compiles the ranking, it gives companies a red flag if they put up a showing below the 25th percentile in one Gap stores have hit the company’s balance sheet,of five categories: financial strength, customer satisfaction, innovation, social responsibility, and employee engagement and development. The red flags serve as a warning that a company—even one that scores highly in every other aspect of the ranking—needs to address an area of weakness before it has a broader effect on its business.

☆ Condé Nast's CMO is exiting after 2 years of leading the company's marketing and consumer revenue business
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Condé Nast CEO has lost its CMO, Deirdre Findlay, who spent two years in the role under CEO Roger Lynch. Condé Nast is looking to remake itself with new lines of business from events to membership businesses. Before joining Condé Nast in early 2019, Lynch was CEO of Pandora where Eisen had also been a corporate advisor. Condé Nast titles include Vogue, New Yorker, and Condé Nast Traveler. Hi All,As I shared in the CMO All Hands today, I have made the difficult decision to leave Condé Nast.

“Spoiler Alert” opened in U.S. theaters Dec. 2. “Women Talking” opened in select U.S. theaters Dec. 2. “The Whale” opens in U.S. theaters Dec. 9. “Babylon” opens in U.S. theaters Dec. 23. “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” opens in U.S. theaters Dec. 23.

☆ Ted Cruz said Republicans don't criticize Trump because if they do, 'he turns around and punches them in the face' for it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ted Cruz said Republicans don't criticize Donald Trump because he "punches them in the face" for it. "Why are people reluctant on the Republican side to criticize Donald Trump? Cruz said he witnessed meetings in which "different Republican senators would criticize" Trump, who would then "spend the whole meeting just slamming them with a stick." "I disagree with a lot of the things Donald Trump says. Cruz and Trump were staunch opponents in the 2016 presidential election, during which time Trump made several disparaging comments about Cruz and his family, though he later apologized.

☆ The 2 things Steve Jobs said many companies get wrong with their best employees
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-09 | by ( Business Insider Deutschland | Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Steve Jobs, former CEO and co-founder of Apple, gave some tips for entrepreneurs. Jobs said that companies need to listen to and benefit from the knowledge of employees. He also said that the boss doesn’t need to be the smartest person in the company. The concept of the knowledge workerThe term "knowledge worker" was coined by management expert Peter Drucker as early as 1959. Three important rules for personnel managementBased on Jobs' ideas, the most important principles for management can be summarized in three points.

☆ Training: Ce înseamnă și cum devii un LIDER
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-09 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +2 min

În cadrul proiectului Cariera Mea, Centrul Republican pentru Copii și Tineret ARTICO vine cu a cincea sesiune din seria "Soft Skills 4 Career". La data de 16 iulie 2021, ora 18:00, offline, în incita CRCT ARTICO tinerii au oportunitatea de a participa la o sesiune interactivă despre ce înseamnă un lider și cum devii un lider potrivit într-o echipă! Activitate interactivă în care participanții vor parcurge mai multe exerciții de învățare și informare. „Singura definiţie a unui lider: cineva care are adepţi.“(Peter Drucker)A avea adepți este ceva diferit decât a avea subalterni, cea din urmă se referă la directori și manageri. Agenda evenimentului:- Care este rolul unui lider și ce înseamnă leadership;- De ce un manager trebuie să fie și un lider și care este diferența;- Cât este de important un lider într-o echipă;- Cum îți dezvolți abilitățile de lider;- Cum formezi o echipă ca lider;- Câți kilometri ai până a deveni un lider?

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With the term “personal taxes,” however, Mr. Garten appears to be conflating income taxes with other federal taxes Mr. Trump has paid — Social Security, Medicare and taxes for his household employees. Fragments of Mr. Trump’s tax returns have leaked out before. Mr. Agalarov’s father, Aras, a billionaire who boasts of close ties to Mr. Putin, was Mr. Trump’s partner in the event. Mr. Trump’s avoidance of income taxes is one of the most striking discoveries in his tax returns, especially given the vast wash of income itemized elsewhere in those filings. When they got to line 56, the one for income taxes due, the amount was the same each year: $750.

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