10 Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America With the help of Google Translate (and an ability to interpret completely random sentence structure), an American can find out what kind of advice the Japanese give to their own countrymen on how to handle the peculiarities of American culture. Here are some things to look out for if you are visiting America from Japan. 1. In Japan, each person eating gets as many individual dishes as needed for the meal. 2. In Japan, hip hop clothes are considered stylish. 3. Manners with cars in America are really damn good. 4. In the U.S., they do not have a sense of superiority if they are able to drink a large amount. 5. In America, whether you are a student, working person, or housewife, you carefully make room for leisure time, weekdays and weekends. See Also: 4 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America 6. If you put your bent middle and index fingers of both hands in the air, you are making finger quotation marks. 7. See Also: 11 French Travel Tips for Visiting America 8. Cashiers are slow. 9. 10.
10 ways to retain your best employees - The Business Journals If “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” then why not imitate the companies in Fortune’s "100 Best Companies to Work For" competition? Since the 2014 list was just released, small business owners should take valuable lessons from how America's biggest companies keep their best employees and lower their employee turnover rate. A good employee is invaluable. Many smaller companies think they can't mimic what companies with deeper pockets are doing, but they're wrong. So, you aren’t the size of Google. While smaller businesses may not be able to offer educational scholarships, home loans, company stocks or other pricey incentives to recruit top millennial talent, they can do some of the things these companies do. With these motivators in mind, here are a few suggestions:
18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently This list has been expanded into the new book, “Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind,” by Carolyn Gregoire and Scott Barry Kaufman. Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also change based on situation and context. Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them, and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking process. Neuroscience paints a complicated picture of creativity. As scientists now understand it, creativity is far more complex than the right-left brain distinction would have us think (the theory being that left brain = rational and analytical, right brain = creative and emotional). While there’s no “typical” creative type, there are some tell-tale characteristics and behaviors of highly creative people. They daydream. They “fail up.”
4 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America As an American, you can find volumes of travel books instructing you how to behave when you visit other countries—which seemingly innocent hand gestures are vulgar in Romania, for example, or how close you can stand to a Japanese businessman. But what about when foreigners visit our country? It’s not easy to find out what the non-English speaking world thinks of us, as it is another unique peculiarity of Americans that most only speak one language. 1. Short Version: Don’t worry about gifts. “Gifts: Americans do not expect them. I’d just like to say, I would love a samovar. 2. The short version: American women are a little uptight. “US etiquette prohibits flirting with a woman who is not your girlfriend or wife. It’s weird how one nation’s flirting is another nation’s motivation to use pepper spray. See Also: 10 Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America 3. Short Version: Americans are delicate buttercups by Russian standards, so be gentle. 4.
World Economic Forum embraces Cradle to Cradle methods for circular economy - About RSM The World Economic Forum (WEF) launched a major new business-led initiative at the Forum in Davos, Switzerland, entitled “Project Mainstream”, aimed at scaling up the circular economy. The new approach is substantively supported by Cradle to Cradle (C2C) scientific methods developed by Professor Michael Braungart and his teams at the C2C Chair at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and his scientific institute EPEA. With this initiative, the WEF, McKinsey & Company and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation call for a new approach to material flows in the circular economy. The circular economy refers to an industrial economy that is restorative by intention; aims to rely on renewable energy; minimises, tracks, and hopefully eliminates the use of toxic chemicals; and eradicates waste through careful design. The project is accompanied by the WEF publication Towards the circular economy: accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains.
ENFJ Profile Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging by Joe Butt Profile: ENFJ Revision: 3.0 Date of Revision: 23 Feb 2005 ENFJs are the benevolent 'pedagogues' of humanity. They have tremendous charisma by which many are drawn into their nurturant tutelage and/or grand schemes. ENFJs are global learners. ENFJs are, by definition, Js, with whom we associate organization and decisiveness. ENFJs know and appreciate people. TRADEMARK: "The first shall be last" This refers to the open-door policy of ENFJs. Functional Analysis: Extraverted Feeling Extraverted Feeling rules the ENFJ's psyche. Introverted iNtuition Like their INFJ cousins, ENFJs are blessed through introverted intuition with clarity of perception in the inner, unconscious world. The dynamic nature of their intuition moves ENFJs from one project to another with the assurance that the next one will be perfect, or much more nearly so than the last. Extraverted Sensing Sensing is extraverted. Introverted Thinking Famous ENFJs: Fictional ENFJs:
11 French Travel Tips for Visiting America The Internet is full of French travelers who've experienced the United States and have things to say about the strange ways of Americans. With the help of Google Translate, Americans can get a peek at these revelations. We know that there are no doubt many Flossers who can translate French better than Google can (though probably not as hilariously), and we welcome any additional information in the comments. 1. Our custom is to kiss before, during, and after each social encounter, with 1, 2, 3, or 4 kisses. 2. A passerby stumbles and sprawls in the street, an old lady can barely control Brutus at the end of a leash, a small tricycle driver loses control of his vehicle. See Also: 4 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America 3. Americans eat and drink anything and at any time of the day: in the street, in a meeting at work, in the car, on the subway, in the elevator, the movies ... 4. 5. Crossing the road as a pedestrian is not always easy, you often have to wait for ages. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Google's Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant | Wired Business Image: esenkartal/Getty Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known for. Yesterday, Google confirmed that it has purchased a stealthy artificial intelligence startup called DeepMind. Lifelike robots, sentient machines, the Jetsons’ smart home in the sky. The DeepMind acquisition closely follows Google’s $3.2 billion purchase of smart thermostat and smoke alarm maker Nest, a slew of cutting-edge robotics companies, and another AI startup known as DNNresearch. Google is looking to spread smart computer hardware into so many parts of our everyday lives — from our homes and our cars to our bodies — but perhaps more importantly, it’s developing a new type of artificial intelligence that can help operate these devices, as well as its many existing web and smartphone services. The New AI