Hiring Experts Reveal Their Favorite Questions
Arianne Cohen of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine has top interviewers reveal the curveballs that distinguish job seekers from job getters: Who do you most admire and why? … “Reveals a lot about who the candidate is, who she aspires to be, and whether she has the DNA to be part of a company’s culture.” In your […]
Gustav Mahler and Alma Mahler
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Brigid Schulte writes in The Guardian that the long stretches of time alone that creative geniuses—mostly men—afforded was facilitated by the dedicated women in their lives: Gustav Mahler married a promising young composer named Alma, then forbade her from composing, saying there could be only one in the family. Instead, she was […]
11 Best Hiking Spots in Europe
Lori Zaino of The Points Guy blog picks incredible European hiking vacations: Caminito del Rey, Málaga, Spain Samariá Gorge, Crete, Greece Paklenica National Park, Starigrad, Croatia Alpe Adria Trail, Italy, Austria, and Slovenia Rota Vicentina, Portugal Croaghaun Cliffs, Achill Island, Ireland Roque Nublo, Gran Canaria, Spain The Painters’ Way, Pirna, Germany Tour du Mont Blanc, […]
Anthony Trollope Inspired by His Mother Frances Milton Trollope
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Brigid Schulte writes in The Guardian that the long stretches of time alone that creative geniuses—mostly men—afforded was facilitated by the dedicated women in their lives: Anthony Trollope, who famously wrote 2,000 words before 8am every morning, most likely learned the habit from his mother, who began writing at age 53 to […]
Rank and Yank: There’s Only so Much Fat to Be Cut
From Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric (2020,) Rank-and-yank worked well for GE’s acquisitions, providing a formula for trimming fat and squeezing profits out of the operations. But some managers didn’t see it as helpful, especially after it had been used for a few years and some competent employees were ending […]
The Economics Nobel Isn’t A Nobel
The “Economics Nobel” prize was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden. It isn’t a Nobel Prize technically, even if its winners are announced with the Nobel Prize recipients, and the honor presented at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony: Technically, there is no Nobel Prize in economics. Instead, there is the Bank of Sweden […]
Globalization Wasn’t Such a Blessing
Paul Krugman and others are now acknowledging that globalization hurt American workers far more than they thought it would: Back in the ’90s, when the post-Cold War consensus was just emerging, economists tended to take a simplistic either-or view of trade—either you were a free trader or a protectionist—and forced people to choose sides. Paul […]
The Genius of Spinoza
Jeffrey Collins, professor of history at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, reviews Steven Nadler’s Spinoza: A Life (2001): In the 1660s and ’70s, Spinoza produced one of the most significant intellectual systems in the history of Western philosophy. It encompassed natural science, religion, politics and ethics. Of his two masterworks, the “Ethics” was written first […]
Ukraine Off the Beaten Track
Travel bloggers Megan & Aram on what to visit beyond the main two touristic cities in Ukraine: Mukachevo: The Carpathian mountains are just a stone’s throw away. The city runs the charismatic Latorica River, where people fish, swim and even wash clothes. Zhovkva: The town is small and walkable with places to eat from coffee […]
Braggarts Only Seem Self-confident
New York Times social manners advice columnist Philip Galanes on bragging parents: Question: My brother and his wife constantly brag about their two children. (I mean, constantly!) Would it be evil of me to let them know that I know their teenage son was arrested recently for driving under the influence? I could slip it […]