Month: December 2015
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How To Reduce The High Cost Of Loneliness
We may live in a more connected world than ever, but in many ways it is also a lonelier one, too. And though isolation may feel like “an intensely personal, private problem,” as Janet Choi notes in Lifehacker, the manifestation is both social and costly. She shares research published by Hakan Ozcelik and Sigal Barsade,…
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You Don’t Need To Be A Ruthless Jerk – Do You?
A colleague and I had disagreed many times, but on this point we both nodded: Most executives are ruthless. Statistics can’t validate personal observations. But here is some data: A 2015 survey of consumer trust levels worldwide by the public relations firm Edelman found that “the number of trusting countries fell to the lowest level ever recorded.” A 2015…
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Consumer Trends 2016: Love & Sex In Augmented Reality
Think of 2015 as the year technology took us all back to the figurative womb. For one thing, parent-style health-minders such as Fitbit exploded in popularity: In June 2015, TheStreet.com cited research showing that it outstripped Apple Watch in sales the previous month. For another, creative-mom crafts center Etsy got so popular that it rolled out a program to match its…
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