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The fascinating brain chemistry behind team collaboration and unbridled creativity
By Paul Charney 5 minute Read One day, Elsa Einstein, wife of the famous Albert, saw her husband wander over to the piano, jot down some notes, keep playing, then disappear into a room for two weeks. When he emerged, he had a working theory of relativity that would change physics forever.
The Joy of Six: The Long View on Short Ads
In 2013, the video-sharing app Vine appeared and became remarkable—not for its features, but for its constraint. Videos could be no mor than six seconds long. The length captured people's attention perhaps because it felt oddly specific. Twitter purchased Vine before the launch—and Twitter is known for its brevity—so it sort of made sense. But why six seconds?
On Working With Young Athletes (and Honoring the Kid Within)
What happened next was honestly a moment of self-reflection. We found ourselves thinking about how we have managed our collaborations with young athletes and looked at how we keep the process fun. We're proud to say that over the years we've developed some practices that have served us well, that help us as filmmakers and ad makers to get a great result for everyone while letting these young athletes still be who they are—kids. Put ourselves in their shoes. A commercial set can be really fun.
For the Ad Industry, the Darkest Hour Is Just Before the Dawn
They say these are dark days in advertising; that our industry's moment has come and gone; that clients demand more for less money in faster time; that agencies can't fight for great work anymore for fear of losing a client and their jobs. And those in-house agencies. Those in-house agencies are hiring all the good people because they can pay them more than traditional agencies can. Retainer? What is that?
Banning Hezbollah ends a longstanding struggle against terror
“We don’t have a military wing and a political one; we don’t have Hezbollah on one hand and the resistance party on the other…Every element of Hezbollah, from commanders to members as well as our various capabilities, are in the service of the resistance, and we have nothing but the resistance as a priority”” said Hezbollah’s General Naim Qassem, in October 2012.
Stop Fooling Yourself. Productivity Tools Like Slack Are Secret Enemies Of Collaboration
Companies are increasing their focus on employee retention. In fact, PayScale’s 2018 Compensation Best Practices report found that 59 percent of respondents considered employee retention a “major concern” for their companies and organisations. This isn’t surprising given that a revolving staff door can make it almost impossible to preserve recent organisational knowledge and keep up with projects and responsibilities.
Stop Fooling Yourself. Productivity Tools Like Slack Are Secret Enemies of Collaboration
Taking off your headphones and talking to the people you work with is the most effective way to foster collaboration. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Walk into any company these days, especially those deemed "innovative," and you see rows of desks with people plugged in to their computers -- our best and brightest trying to be productive and get lost in their work. And to make sure they get lost in their work, they put on their headphones and hop on Slack.
We must all be reporters to end the British media's bias against Israel
Almost 7,500 acres of fields, crops and livelihoods burned. That’s about 5,600 football pitches, or in a very Jewish-centric comparison, that’s just over 306 times the size of the entire JFS site. Almost 200 rockets fired from Gaza at Israel over a period of 48 hours. A kindergarten, a synagogue and residential areas hit by rockets. Babies having to be plucked from their beds at night by fear ridden parents with just 15 seconds to get to safety. There were no headlines. There was no news story.
The ZF is a broad synagogue so disagreements are inevitable
If you‘ve been keeping up with the Jewish news in the last few days, you might well have come away with the impression that our recent gala dinner was something of a right-wing echo-chamber. One article focused on the controversy surrounding one of our speakers, while another focused the controversy surrounding one of our audience members. Conversely – and presumably to the surprise of those reading the articles – we’ve also come under fire because the event was apparently far too left-wing.
Lessons learnt from Stalin, Trump...and Matisyahu
Unlike the current Labour Party leadership in Britain, I don’t go out of my way to reference far left totalitarians. (Only Mao and then.) But recent events got me thinking about Joseph Stalin’s most famous line: Of course, there’s an element of horrific self-assurance in this pithy one-liner, given the speaker was responsible for some of the highest body counts in history.
Report claims France didn't want Netanyahu at Paris march
The French government was opposed to the idea of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attending Sunday’s historic march in Paris, believing the Israeli leader’s presence at the rally would be “divisive,” Israeli media reported Sunday. Netanyahu did not initially plan to attend the event, which was organized in a show of solidarity and defiance after terrorist attacks in the French capital, which claimed 17 lives.
US: Group behind Paris attacks still unknown
US Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday there was no “credible information” as yet that al-Qaeda was behind the attacks in France that killed 17 people. Holder spoke as dozens of heads of states joined hundreds of thousands of people in a massive display of unity and defiance against terrorism on the streets of Paris.
Wife of Charlie Hebdo killer condemns attack
PARIS — The wife of Charlie Hebdo attacker Cherif Kouachi, held for 72 hours after the deadly assault, has condemned her husband’s actions and expressed her feelings for the victims, her lawyer told AFP on Sunday. Speaking after she was released from custody on Saturday, Christian Saint-Palais said the young woman had “expressed her indignation and condemnation of violence” to investigators.
In Paris, Jews and Muslims unite against terror
PARIS — At first glance, a hip young Jewish singer and a 60-year-old Muslim Algerian shopkeeper might appear to have little in common. But among the sea of people rallying in Paris on Sunday, they came together after a blood-soaked week in which 17 people — journalists and cartoonists, Jews, Muslims, police officers — were killed in jihadist attacks. Under wintry blue skies, they shared a simple and defiant message: France will not be divided by fear or by religious differences.
Teens held for systematic attacks on Arab bus drivers
Sixteen Jewish teenagers were detained by police Saturday night after a sting operation following complaints of regular attacks on Arab bus drivers in central Israel. Police began to investigate the incidents after receiving four separate reports of harassment and violent attacks on Arab drivers on Egged’s route 79 between Petah Tikva and the town of Elad, Israeli news site Ynet reported.
US to host summit to fight 'violent extremism'
PARIS, France — The United States will host a summit on February 18 on how to fight “violent extremism around the world” in the wake of the Paris attacks, US Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday. Speaking in the French capital after a meeting with European security ministers following this week’s Islamist terrorist attacks, Holder said the meeting would take place in Washington, DC, under the auspices of US President Barack Obama.
Victims of kosher market attack to be buried in Israel
The four Jewish men killed in a Friday terrorist attack at the HyperCacher kosher supermarket in Paris will be laid to rest in Israel. The decision came after the Foreign Ministry reached out to the families with an offer to bury the victims in Israel, despite the fact that they were not Israeli citizens, and the families accepted. The funerals are set to take place on Tuesday and the four will officially be recognized as terror victims.
Attacks highlight problem of extremism in French prisons
PARIS — At least two of the gunmen who unleashed terror on France are believed to have been radicalized in prison, a fertile ground for extremism that authorities are struggling to contain. Both Mohamed Merah, the Al-Qaeda militant who shot dead seven people in a series of 2012 attacks, and Mehdi Nemmouche, last year’s Brussels Jewish museum killer, were radicalized in jail.
Prosecutor: Paris grocery gunman linked to 3rd shooting
PARIS — The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher grocery, a prosecutor said Sunday. In a brief statement, the prosecutor said ballistics tests on shell cases from the shooting Wednesday in Fontenay aux Roses linked them to the automatic weapon at the kosher store stormed two days later. The prosecutor said the jogger was seriously wounded.
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