How Curiosity Can Make Your Meetings — and Team — Better

Do you find meetings with your team disintegrate into dysfunction and chaos, resulting in ineffective decision-making, inadequate solutions, and team members — including yourself — with deflated morale? “Team” is a misnomer for these bodies; “group” is more accurate. Group members are accountable to the boss but not to each other; they often work …

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Ikea adds doorstep delivery facility in new markets, expects higher demand

“However, the convenience offered by online channels is expected to continue growing, especially considering people’s busy lives and the challenges of traffic,” the Ikea India CEO said Leading furniture retailer Ikea has introduced doorstep delivery facility in 62 new markets in India, and the company expects online demand to go up in the …

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Truck Makers Team Up to Push for Electric Vehicle Chargers

There are more than four million electric vehicles on American roads, but fewer than 1,000 of them are heavy-duty trucks. On Tuesday, the three largest truck makers plan to announce a push to remedy that deficit by calling on governments and utilities to help them build many more places to charge big rigs. Daimler …

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After China Evergrande, Real Estate Crisis ‘Has Not Touched Bottom’

The unwavering belief of Chinese home buyers that real estate was a can’t-lose investment propelled the country’s property sector to become the backbone of its economy. But over the last two years, as firms crumbled under the weight of massive debts and sales of new homes plunged, Chinese consumers have demonstrated an equally unshakable …

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Everyone Has to Make Their Choices

Politico’s ‘West Wing Playbook’ is out tonight with a report about the pro-Palestine “Ceasefire Now’ protestors which are showing up at basically every Biden event. Here’s the lede of the newsletter which gives a taste of it … It’s hard for President JOE BIDEN to do anything in public lately without being met by protests over …

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What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry

Photo Illustration by ABC News / Getty Images Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced that he’s directing three House committees to start investigating whether President Biden benefited from his son Hunter’s business dealings overseas. McCarthy accused the Biden family of …

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Sets Up Showdown on Medicaid Abortion Ban

David Cohen, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, told The New Republic that the Pennsylvania government has a “very high bar” to clear to justify Medicaid excluding abortion coverage after this ruling. The government must prove it has a “compelling state interest” in prohibiting Medicaid from covering abortion, and no other “less intrusive …

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The Intercept Discloses Top-Secret NSA Document on Russia Hacking Aimed at US Voting System – Mother Jones

On Monday, the Intercept published a classified internal NSA document noting that Russian military intelligence mounted an operation to hack at least one US voting software supplier—which provided software related to voter registration files—in the months prior to last year’s presidential contest. It has previously been reported that Russia attempted to hack into voter …

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