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The Office Day Count Is Not a Strategy: What the Barclays Reversal Teaches Leaders. AI-Generated.
Note: This story was written with AI assistance and edited by me. Over the summer, Barclays told its UK staff that from October 5, most people coming into the office two days a week would need to come in at least three, and managing directors and above would need four. On September 29, with six days to go, the bank's executive committee told staff it was extending the implementation period and reviewing its flexible working policy. Employees could defer until 2027 if their line manager agreed. On the same day, a spokesperson said the updated arrangements would take effect as planned.
By Ashkan Rajaee15 days ago in Journal
The Deal I Should Have Said "Not Yet" To: Why Capacity Belongs in Every Sales Conversation. AI-Generated.
Note: This story was written with AI assistance and edited by me. Note: An earlier version of this piece, "Why I Treat Delivery Capacity as a Sales Constraint," was published on DEV.
By Ashkan Rajaee15 days ago in Journal
What Happens When a Customer Presses Back in a Multi-Step Form?
What Happens When a Customer Presses Back in a Multi-Step Form? A practical check for keeping earlier answers and the final enquiry consistent when a customer changes their mind
By Vladyslav Yanchenko16 days ago in Journal
The Crochet Pattern That Broke on Round Three: Why Etsy Is Banning AI Recipes and Patterns
I A crochet pattern. The buyer downloads it, prints it, and makes the first stitch. The first round is fine. The second round is just barely manageable. On the third round, the stitch count stops matching. She goes back to the product page to look for a photo of the finished piece. She wants to know whether she made a mistake or the pattern did. The page has only an AI-generated diagram: perfect lighting, even stitches. No physical object. No making process. Not one line saying “I made this.”
By Jin16 days ago in Journal
The Temple in the Mall: Why I Can’t Walk Past MUJI
A few days ago I saw a line: MUJI is like a temple in a mall. Even if you’re just passing by, you have to go in and bow. I was on the subway when I saw it. The light from my phone screen was a little harsh, but I read that line twice. It was too on point.
By Jin16 days ago in Journal
Hong Kong Restaurants Are Closing. Shenzhen Didn’t Kill Them.
The closures are no longer scattered. Lei Garden in Mong Kok, open for forty-six years and once awarded two Michelin stars, has shut. Hoi Wong Congee, a name in Hong Kong for thirty-three years, has closed. Pizza Box, a local chain that ran for twenty-three years, has left the market. In the first eight months of this year, more than twenty-eight traditional Cantonese restaurants closed, and over a hundred Chinese restaurants are in trouble.
By Jin16 days ago in Journal
You Can Ban “Bro.” You Can’t Ban a Heart.
The document is titled “A Proposal,” but by the third line of the body it says “strictly prohibited.” Someone in the student group chat sends a question mark. No one replies.
By Jin16 days ago in Journal
Growing Luxury in the Tropics: Malaysia’s Homegrown Premium Food Revolution
At the foothills of the Titiwangsa range’s western face, in Tanjung Malim close to Perak’s border with Selangor, lies a farm that looks less like fields and barns than a carefully controlled science facility. Ponds, temperature-regulated pools, and sterile workspaces stretch across the grounds, and within them swim half a million sturgeon, cold-water fish that by all logic should not thrive in Malaysia’s tropical heat. Yet here they are, producing T’lur Caviar, one of the world’s most celebrated and expensive delicacies. This is not an isolated curiosity but part of a growing movement: enterprising Malaysians are finding ways to cultivate premium foods that have always been imported, adapting species and techniques to local conditions and building a luxury food sector rooted not in shipping containers and cold chains, but in the land itself.
By Mark Lim 16 days ago in Journal
Brazil Sues Shell for US$108 Million Over Deadly 2024 Floods in Historic Climate Lawsuit
In a case being described as unprecedented, Brazilian federal prosecutors have filed a civil lawsuit against Shell’s Brazilian subsidiary seeking US$108 million in compensation for the catastrophic floods that struck Rio Grande do Sul in April and May 2024. Working alongside local environmental NGO Instituto Preservar , prosecutors argue that Shell’s long‑standing contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, estimated at roughly 2% of the world’s historical total, makes it legally responsible for the intensified extreme weather that killed nearly 200 people, displaced half a million, and shattered communities across southern Brazil. It is the first time a national public prosecution service has taken action against a major energy company over a climate‑driven disaster, marking a significant new phase in global climate litigation.
By Mark Lim 16 days ago in Journal
Why Your Leadership Tactics Are Failing You
Written by a human, for humans, always. Have you been trying to be successful as a leader... Reading all the books... Listening to all the podcasts...
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM16 days ago in Journal
Shane Murphy on Separating Launch Vision from Availability at Global Publishing. AI-Generated.
A launch announcement has a difficult job. It needs to explain why a project matters while being precise about what has actually reached the public. The most exciting sentence in a draft can also be the one most likely to confuse those stages. I think a founder should resist that confusion. Readers should not have to decode whether a feature is an ambition, a proposal under development or something available to them at the time they encounter the announcement.
By Shane Murphy16 days ago in Journal
Shane Ian Murphy on What He Wants to Learn from the Planned Global Publishing Launch. AI-Generated.
A launch can be treated as the moment a founder finally delivers an answer. I would rather also see it as the point when the questions become more concrete. A platform may have a coherent plan and still reveal assumptions that deserve revision when people encounter it. My interest is in learning which parts of a publishing process people understand easily, where they need greater clarity and whether the planned way of organising the work matches the problems they are trying to solve.
By Shane Murphy16 days ago in Journal