前美联储主席保罗沃尔克(3) He was happy, even at the Fed, to wear crumpled suits, live in a students' apartment block and fly coach back to New York and the family at weekends. (His salary had fallen by half when he went from the New York F...
7. Keep meetings short. Ideally, a meeting should be the length of a sitcom episode not a film by Martin Scorsese. Bartlebys law is that 80% of the time of 80% of the people at meetings is wasted. If you doubt the numbers, have a think about the last...
4. Make your priorities for the next year clear, and communicate them well. Is the company (or division) trying to launch a new product? Or to boost sales of existing products? Or to control costs? If you are not sure, then those who work for you wil...
Business 来源于《商业》版块 Bartleby 巴托比职场专栏 A managers manifesto 一位经理的宣言 Eight resolutions to adopt in 2020 2020年适用的八项计划 The start of the year is traditionally the time to make resolutions to chan...
Books arts 来源于《图书和艺术》版块 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 Climate-speak 关于气候的表达 Of train-boasts, plane-shame and electric automobiles 火车、飞机和电动汽车 Identifying shifts in the Earths climate requires d...
Babbel, which makes a popular language- learning app, has collected a host of climate-related neologisms from European languages. Flygskam is perhaps the most likely to be permanently adopted into English: flight-shame, from Swedish, was popularised...
Which of these nations is composed of six states and two territories? Australia, India, Malaysia, or Mexico. Though all of these nations have states, only Australia has exactly six of them in addition to its territories. And four of those states have...
Intriguingly, after the new deal was announced it refrained from mentioning any numerical targets. 有趣的是,新协议宣布后,其也没有提及任何数字目标。 Whether that is because it is embarrassed about having been forced into suc...
There's an international standoff happening right now between the United States and Iran, and no one knows what's going to happen next. Military action between the two countries has been taking place in Iraq which forms part of Iran's western border....
The European Space Agency is taking steps toward cleaning up a junkyard the one that surrounds and orbits Earth. Since the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite in 1957, people have sent a lot of stuff into orbit and beyond. And they'v...