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☆ What would your CEO learn doing your job for a day? We want to know.
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Hayley Peterson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Some CEOs are moonlighting as frontline workers to root out problems. Uber's CEO became a delivery driver and Starbucks' CEO worked in stores alongside baristas. Do you think your CEO should do your job for a day? Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi secretly signed up as a driver last year, transporting dozens of passengers and deliveries around San Francisco. If you think your CEO should spend a day in your role, tell us why — and what they might learn from the exercise — in this survey.
☆ Moscow's 'special' forces: An inside look at how Russia's famed Spetsnaz really operate
  + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Mark Galeotti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +24 min
Russia's Spetsnaz forces are often depicted as a kind of Russian super troops. Osprey PublishingMost countries' special forces emphasize physical fitness, determination and aggression. Special people, for special tasksMembers of the Russian military's 16th Separate Special Purpose Brigade during an exercise in 2018. Even so, being better than most of the Soviet army's miserable and recalcitrant conscript forces did not make most of them truly special, special forces. The special operations commandMembers of Russian's 22nd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade during an exercise in November 2017.
☆ How Putin spent 20 years rebuilding Russia's military 'and then just simply destroyed it' in Ukraine, according to an expert who watched it happen
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Christopher Woody | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +17 min
Vladimir Putin has spent his two decades in power rebuilding and reforming Russia's military. Below, Galeotti describes those reforms, what they achieved, and how, in a devastating war in Ukraine, Putin has squandered the military he built. IGOR SAREMBO/AFP via Getty ImagesWhen Putin came to power at the end of the 1990s, what was the state of the Russian military? How did the Russian military underperform in that conflict in Georgia? What did those conflicts show about the capabilities of the Russian military and about the impact of those reforms?
☆ Uber's CEO became an undercover boss in a used Tesla and was surprised by how rude some riders can be
  + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Dara Khosrowshahi told The Wall Street Journal he encountered problems that discouraged drivers. He was surprised to find out just how many issues there were – and how unpleasant some riders could be. Khosrowshahi told the Journal he had a five-star rating for the 100-odd rides and deliveries he'd completed around San Francisco. The Uber CEO said he would try to keep customers happy by offering phone charging cables and serving up Spotify playlists featuring artists including Taylor Swift and The National. Khosrowshahi told the Journal that some drivers had returned in response to economic uncertainty, which was yet to have an impact on rider demand.
☆ Meet Matija Pecotic: a real-estate investor who counts Bill Ackman as a mentor - and now a breakout tennis star on the pro circuit
  + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
A 33-year-old real-estate investor has become a tennis star after beating a former top-10 player. Pecotic counts Bill Ackman as a mentor, and compares his game preparation to day trading. "Being mentored by Bill Ackman continued to influence that hunger," Pecotic said. The moonlighting tennis star scours match tapes and other information sources to spot his opponents' weaknesses and refine his own game. "In our world, we are all about information, put the emotions aside – analytics, analytics, analytics," he said.
☆ Berlinale film charts Boris Becker's career from 'boom boom' to bust
  + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Thomas Escritt | Thomson Reuters | Berlin Correspondent Who Has Investigated Anti-Vaxxers | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/5] Former tennis player Boris Becker attends a news conference to promote documentary 'Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker' at the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 19, 2023. "You have to be a bit crazy to cross the line and do things nobody else has ever achieved before." "You expect world champions in a sport to be like everyone else but we aren't," he told a news conference. "What I liked about Boris is that unlike many athletes he is a great storyteller," Gibney said.
☆ Actor Bruce Willis diagnosed with dementia
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Danielle Broadway | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
LOS ANGELES, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Actor Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, his family said on Thursday, nearly a year after the "Die Hard" franchise star retired due to aphasia that hampered his cognitive abilities. “Since we announced Bruce’s diagnosis of aphasia in spring 2022, Bruce’s condition has progressed and we now have a more specific diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD), his family said in a statement posted on The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration website. "Unfortunately, challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease Bruce faces. The actor’s oldest daughter, actor Rumer Willis, also posted the announcement on Instagram and received support from others in the entertainment industry. But Willis is perhaps best known for playing the tough-as-nails New York cop who pursued bad guys in the five "Die Hard" movies, released from 1988 to 2013.
☆ How monk turned motivational speaker, Jay Shetty, and his wife are building a growing empire of wellness teas— with backing from New Money Ventures
  + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The sparkling tea brand has raised funding from LA-based firm, New Money Ventures. Liquid Death, a canned water brand, was valued at $700 million during its Series D round in October 2022. In April 2022, Beyonce invested in Lemon Perfect, a lemon water brand. In November 2022, the organic birch water brand Treo announced a partnership with the singer Jason Derulo. Joyo launched direct-to-consumer on January 25, so customers can now order products online to any location in the United States.
☆ How a Millennial Earns $200K Working 2 Remote Jobs at the Same Time
  + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Jason Lalljee | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
A full-time account manager at a software company started a second job as a sales representative. He is on track to make more than $160,000 at the software company this year, including commission, pay stubs viewed by Insider showed. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. he balances his software work with his calls for the furniture retailer. He makes five phone calls an hour selling furniture, and he controls his hours at the software company. He was laid off after six months and returned to the software company, which he said was "a blessing in disguise."
☆ A former bodyguard for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt shares what his job was like and the biggest misconceptions about protecting celebrities
  + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Mark Ellwood | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Mark "Billy" Billingham was a bodyguard for years for stars like Angelina Jolie and Russell Crowe. Billingham's biggest job, he said, was an 18-month position working full time for Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and their family. "I was literally working 18 hours a day, every day, and I stayed with them," he said. Decoys and detours are great ways to test new security detailsIn his role as the head of security, Billingham had to coordinate the entire security team, including what's often a huge army of drivers. The ruse for new chauffeurs began with telling them about the next day's route for Pitt and Jolie in advance.
☆ Seeking a Manhattan Studio With Design Potential for $600,000. Which Option Did He Choose?
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Stefanos Chen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Nothing excites Eric Wong like the thrill of the hunt — usually in the clearance section of a West Elm outlet store. “I get high as hell on a deal,” Mr. Wong, 42, said of his best finds at the interior-design chain. “He’s basically furnished his whole apartment with West Elm stuff,” said his sister, Elke Wong. “I still love them, so hard,” Mr. Wong said of his erstwhile coworkers. Mr. Wong wanted something centrally located, but also fun for a bachelor.
☆ Tech CEO calls overemployment trend a 'new form of theft and deception' after firing two engineers secretly working multiple full-time jobs at once
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
In a viral Linkedin post, a CEO explained why he fired two engineers for secretly working two full-time jobs. The post went viral on Friday after Bell divulged that Canopy, a mid-sized software company based in Utah, recently fired two engineers who were secretly working two full-time jobs simultaneously. Others speculated that the engineers may have be working two jobs in order to make ends meet. According to Bell, Canopy discovered the first engineer was secretly working a second full-time job after 2.5 months of poor performance that had been flagged by the engineer's teammates. You're also hurting the people who you're working with because they're responsible for deliverables and they end up working more."
☆ How Equifax used employment records it collects from 2.5 million companies to fire dozens of its own employees for working second jobs
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Kate Taylor | Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
The crackdown was the result of an investigation that unfolded in recent months conducted by Equifax employees, including HR and cybersecurity, according to a document seen by Insider. The product has employment records, including weekly pay, of 105 million US workers, according to the company's last annual report. At one point, 25 employees were interviewed on the investigation's findings, and 24 were terminated, resulting in savings of $3.2 million, according to a document. In one author's case, this included all salaried positions since graduating college in 2013, as well as a job working in the college library as a student. "With predictions of more than 36 million employees working remotely by the year 2025, the need to monitor an employee's employment status will continue to grow," the company says in marketing material.
☆ Judge tosses most charges against Kansas researcher
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
A federal judge on Tuesday threw out three of four convictions against a Kansas researcher accused of illegally concealing work he was doing at a Chinese university while working at the University of Kansas, leaving only a conviction for making a false statement on a form. A jury convicted researcher Feng “Franklin” Tao in April on three counts of wire fraud and one count of false statements. He was accused of not disclosing that he was working for Fuzhou University in China while employed at the Kansas university. She upheld the making a false statement conviction and denied Tao’s request for a new trial on that count. She said Tao did make a false statement to Kansas on a conflict of interest statement he submitted to the university in 2018.
☆ Newly unsealed indictment accuses three Iranian nationals of ransomware attacks against hundreds of U.S. victims
  + stars: | 2022-09-14 | by ( Christina Wilkie | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Several hours after the Justice Department unsealed the indictments, the Treasury Department announced new sanctions against 10 Iranian nationals and two Iranian tech companies. Treasury officials described all 10 of the sanctioned individuals as "affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps." The IRGC is an elite branch of the Iranian military that oversees Iran's international cyber warfare and espionage operations. According to a notice from the Treasury Department, this particular group of Iranians is not obviously aligned with one of the existing IRGC proxy gangs. The Justice Department has struggled for decades to convince institutional victims of cyberattacks that they would be better served by reporting the attack than by covering it up.
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