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☆ Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive email to staff lacks the emotional intelligence you need for a business to thrive, psychology experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Meta lawsuit revealed 2016 emails Mark Zuckerberg sent to his employees. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAccording to newly unsealed emails in a lawsuit against Meta, Mark Zuckerberg directed Facebook employees to track encrypted user analytics from Snapchat, a competitor. No niceties," Dr. Ronald Riggio, a professor of leadership and organizational psychology at Claremont McKenna College, told Business Insider.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, —, Zuckerberg, Dr, Ronald Riggio, Annie Wright, Wright, curt, Riggio, Zuckerberg's Organizations: Service, Meta, Claremont McKenna College, Boeing

Outside Delta, a one-stoplight town in the scrublands of central Utah, a giant battery is taking shape underground. Two caverns, each as deep as the Empire State Building is tall, are being created from a geological salt formation, using water to dissolve and remove the salt. As the world seeks to fight climate change by burning less coal, oil and other fossil fuels, the spotlight is shifting to hydrogen as an alternative. Hydrogen produces no planet-warming emissions when burned, making it a potential replacement fuel in transportation, electricity generation and industries like the making of cement and steel. But with this project and a second mammoth construction site across the street, developers are taking hydrogen’s potential to another level.

Organizations: Empire Locations: Utah

☆ A Fossil Dream as Big as Texas
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Asher Elbein | Nina Riggio | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Most people come to Ox Ranch — an 18,000-acre property outside Uvalde, Texas — for the thrill of hunting exotic animals in the Hill Country. Mr. LuJan is a commercial paleontologist, bald and often dressed in dinosaur-themed shirts and socks, who collects fossils and assesses their value for private clients. Such arrangements are not unusual in the vast and wealthy state, which is in the middle of a paleontological renaissance. That won’t be the case with Ox Ranch, and Mr. LuJan has bigger ambitions. But Mr. LuJan sees a paleontological void in the state, which has no public museum devoted solely to its fossil treasures.

Persons: Brent C, Oxley, Andre LuJan, LuJan Organizations: Uvalde , Texas — Locations: Uvalde , Texas, Texas

☆ Fiction: ‘Biography of X’ by Catherine Lacey
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Sam Sacks | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

By the time of her sudden death in 1996, X had achieved worldwide celebrity for her tireless transformations and the mystique they sustained. But one role remained unknown to the public: That of the wife to a largely ordinary woman named C.M. “Biography of X” is framed as Lucca’s book, written partly to correct the errors of unauthorized biography but mostly in an anguished effort to uncover the secrets of a woman with whom she was so intimate yet knew not at all. As the chapters recount Lucca’s interviews with the people whom X, under different guises, knew, loved and exploited through the decades, it describes a strangely mutated version of American history as well. The imagined details of the Great Disunion, as it’s called, yo-yo between the plausible and the preposterous (FDR chief-of-staff Emma Goldman?

☆ The Year in Pictures 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +57 min

Every year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year’s work in an effort to pick out the most startling, most moving, most memorable pictures. But 2022 undoubtedly belongs to the war in Ukraine, a conflict now settling into a worryingly predictable rhythm. Erin Schaff/The New York Times “When you’re standing on the ground, you can’t visualize the scope of the destruction. Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25. We see the same images over and over, and it’s really hard to make anything different.” Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 26.

You may find yourself continually obeying a toxic boss despite how they treat you. Ronald Riggio, a professor of leadership psychology, told CNBC four key reasons why this happens. "A bad leader attracts henchpersons who surround them because they like being connected to a powerful person," Riggio told CNBC. 'Cognitive laziness'If you have a toxic boss, it can be very tempting to try and ignore the problem and tell yourself everything is fine because it's too much effort to do anything about it. Thinking good results mean good managementWhile you may see a manager's toxic behavior, others may just see that they're producing good results, which often hides their conduct, Riggio said.

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