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The $2 Billion Question of Who You Are at Work
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I was intrigued. These questions were deeper than the improvement I happened to be seeking at that moment, related to the consistency of a chickpea stew I was cooking with my roommate, so I gladly opened the email, which contained the results of my assessment from 16personalities.com.
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What’s your office personality? I corresponded with more than three dozen people about their work experiences. Inspired by these conversations, I created a quiz that explores different working styles, one that’s designed for self-reflection and discussion.
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Is the Entire Economy Gentrifying?
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Big companies are prodding their customers toward fancier, and often pricier, versions of everything from Krispy Kreme doughnuts to cans of WD-40.
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When Clothes Fly Off, This Intimacy Coordinator Steps In
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It takes a lot of people to make a movie. You’ve got the director for overall vision, the gaffer on the lights, the set decorators to add texture to the film’s world, and the costume designers to envision the actors’ looks.
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Leave Russia? A Year Later Many Companies Can’t, or Won’t.
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, a phalanx of Western companies pledged to get out fast from what had once been an important market. McDonald’s dismantled its golden arches after 32 years. The oil giant BP moved to divest its mammoth Russian investments.
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The freight elevator doors opened onto 50,000 square feet of office real estate. Right now, it is empty, but Seth Besmertnik, chief executive of the software company Conductor, gestured at the beams and concrete floor with pride.
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The little QR code is ubiquitous across India’s vastness. You find it pasted on a tree next to a roadside barber, propped on the pile of embroidery sold by female weavers, sticking out of a mound of freshly roasted peanuts on a snack cart.
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As Dollar Stores Proliferate, Some Communities Say No
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Morgan, Minn., a city of about 800 people, has two restaurants, several churches, a grain elevator and one small grocery store that sells rib-eye steaks that, according to the mayor, “are the best around.”
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Eli Lilly Says It Will Cut the Price of Insulin
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The drug maker Eli Lilly and Company said on Wednesday that it would significantly reduce the prices of several of its lifesaving insulin products that are used by diabetes patients and whose prices Lilly has repeatedly increased in the past.
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Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News, acknowledged in a deposition that several hosts for his networks promoted the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald J.
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Challenges to Student Loan Cancellation Reach Supreme Court
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In September, Jason Doresky received a $10,000 direct deposit from the Education Department. It was a refund for payments he had made voluntarily on his federal student loans since March 2020, when the government told borrowers that they could stop paying temporarily because of the pandemic.
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Those fissures were evident this past week as top economic policymakers from the Group of 20 nations gathered for two days at a resort in Bengaluru, a city in southern India, where efforts to demonstrate unity were overshadowed by flaring tensions over Russia.
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U.S. Nominates Ajay Banga to Lead World Bank
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BENGALURU, India — The Biden administration nominated Ajay Banga, the former longtime chief executive of Mastercard, to be the next president of the World Bank, a selection that is likely to drastically reshape the global development institution and broaden its ambitions to combat climate change.
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The Billionaire’s Daughter Knows What You’re Thinking
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Even as a young girl, Elizabeth R. Koch was keenly aware of her family’s extreme wealth. “My beloved parents, they were paranoid about raising spoiled pieces of — you know — and so I heard about it a lot, and I could see how other people responded to us,” she said.
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Jen Psaki, Once the Voice of Biden, Moves to an Anchor Chair
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Rachel Maddow is teaching her to use a teleprompter, so far with mixed results. Mika Brzezinski offered tips on pinning down squirrelly guests. Nicolle Wallace invited her to editorial meetings, and Andrea Mitchell is tutoring her on interviewing techniques.
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Don Lemon Will Return to CNN on Wednesday After Uproar
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The CNN anchor Don Lemon will return to his regular morning-show role on Wednesday, the network announced late Monday night, after an uproar over a series of comments he made on the air last week about women and aging. In a terse, 75-word memo sent at 10:37 p.m.
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Hedge Fund Billionaire Extracts Billions More to Retire
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When Ray Dalio, the multibillionaire founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, announced his retirement in October, both he and the firm he founded more than four decades ago treated the moment as celebratory. Mr.
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More Than 300,000 Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino Drinks Recalled
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More than 25,000 cases of a bottled Starbucks coffee drink were recalled after glass was found inside some of the bottles, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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