leaders

“Competitive,” “decisive,” “action-oriented,” even “intimidating”: many people invoke these words to describe good leaders. Indeed, several studies suggest extraverted, dominant individuals are perceived as competent, influential leaders in industry and politics. Think of the late former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos or Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Many people find these leaders appealing and inspiring. But such individuals have shortcomings as well. Dominant leaders sometimes seek to influence…

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: How self-driving startups Wayve, Waabi, and Autobrains are using end-to-end AI learning, hoping to leapfrog market leaders like Cruise and Waymo — The mainstream approach to driverless cars is slow and difficult. These startups think going all-in on AI will get there faster. Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: How self-driving startups Wayve, Waabi, and Autobrains are using end-to-end AI learning, hoping to leapfrog market leaders like…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Ontario Election News Canadian Politics Canada The NDP say they would cap and regulate prices, a proposal their opponents dismissed as ineffective. The PCs and Liberals support cutting the gas tax Author of the article: The Canadian Press Allison Jones "We're in the midst of an affordability crisis that I don't believe we've seen, perhaps in my lifetime," Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca said. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf/Postmedia Article content…

WASHINGTON—Top U.S. officials who oversee the Internal Revenue Service are expressing growing dismay with a year-old D.C. mystery: how confidential information about the nation’s wealthiest and highest-income taxpayers—including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk —became public.Extensive disclosures to news organization ProPublica made public the tax figures of many of the most well-known ultrawealthy Americans, showing their incomes, payments and tax strategies. There…

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Politics PMN News Author of the article: Publishing date: May 19, 2022  •  13 minutes ago  •  3 minute read  •  Join the conversation Article content NAIROBI — The soldier son of Uganda’s long-serving President Yoweri Museveni is signaling his readiness to take over his father’s job, with comments on global affairs from Ukraine to Ethiopia and birthday festivities akin to political rallies. However, should he run instead of Museveni in the next presidential…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Vaccinating a substantial portion of society has been found to be the best way to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, but the pace of vaccination has slowed down since the vaccines were first made available to the public in December 2020. As of May 2022, only 66% of the eligible population in the United States was fully vaccinated, even as vaccines were going unused around the country.…

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on economic growth, jobs, and deficit reduction in the Roosevelt Room on Wednesday May 4, 2022.Demetrius Freeman | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesStarbucks is asking the White House for a meeting after President Joe Biden met with an organizer who is helping its coffee shops unionize.The president met with 39 national labor leaders on Thursday, including Christian Smalls, who heads the Amazon Labor Union, and Laura Garza, a union leader at Starbucks' New York City Roastery. Biden…