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Attend Women at Work Live May 16 – HBR.org Daily

April 16, 2024

We’ve planned a half-day of learning, guidance, and inspiration—all virtual. Here’s the agenda:

Executive coach Dorie Clark on working with the ambition you’ve got right now, whether you’re making every effort to get promoted or are taking a break from striving. She’ll help you recognize when it’s best to slow down or ramp up.
Organizational psychologist Ruchi Sinha’s latest research findings on trust: how to measure the amount felt between team members, and what to do if it’s imbalanced. Plus, she’ll explain the upsides of switching between different kinds of leadership styles, and she’ll illustrate how to do that.
DEI strategist Lily Zheng on the power of data to correct discrimination, design fair processes, and demonstrate a company’s progress toward diversity, equity, and inclusion. They’ll also describe the positive and negative moves companies are making and how to have influence within yours.
The Amys on…whatever guidance you and other attendees need related to leading a team, dealing with conflict, negotiating, or something else. Email your question ahead of time to womenatwork@hbr.org, or drop it into the chat during the session.

Tickets are $60 for Harvard Business Review subscribers and $75 for everyone else. A ticket will also give you access to a replay of the event recording. Register here.

Interested in buying a bunch of tickets for your team, department, or entire company? Email WAWLive@hbr.org to learn about group discounts.

See you there!

AMY BERNSTEIN: What are you up to on May 16? Amy G and I are hosting a live, half-day virtual event. You should come!

AMY GALLO: Last year’s event was such a great time. People who attended told us they appreciated how interactive the sessions were. Like, how active the chat was and how the questions and comments there really shaped the overall conversation.

AMY BERNSTEIN: If we’re gonna be together online for four hours—with short breaks—we’ll make sure to keep things lively.

AMY GALLO: Let me tell you about a couple of the sessions we have planned. One of them is gonna be about ambition, whether you’re making every effort to get promoted or if you’re taking a break from striving. Dorie Clark will help you clarify what you want and why and recognize when slowing down or ramping up is in your best interest.

In another session, Lily Zheng, who’s a DEI strategist and friend of the podcast, will talk about the power of data. I so appreciate how practical and insightful Lily’s advice is on this topic. This is not the usual theoretical insights that are tough to actually apply to your work. Specifically they’ll share insights on how data can help you correct discrimination, design fair processes, and demonstrate a company’s progress toward diversity, equity, and inclusion. They’ll also talk about the many bells and whistles that DEI could do without.

AMY BERNSTEIN: And then we’ll talk trust—one of my very favorite topics—with organizational psychologist Ruchi Sinha, who you may have heard in our recent Essentials episode on building and repairing it. She’ll describe her latest research findings around measuring trust among team members, and she’ll give guidance on what to do if you discover an imbalance between certain people.

We’ll close out the event with “Ask the Amys,” where Amy G and I answer your questions about anything from negotiations to careers to managing others. For that one,email questions to womenatwork@hbr.org. We’ll answer questions live, but we’ll also take a few that have been submitted in advance.

AMY GALLO: For the entire agenda, information about the speakers, and to purchase your tickets, go to HBR.org/WAWLive. That’s HBR.org/WAWLive. You might consider organizing a watch party with your team. And if you can’t make it live for any reason, tickets also grant you access to the recordings afterwards. And HBR subscribers get 20% off the ticket price.

AMY BERNSTEIN: So, mark your calendars!

AMY GALLO: Hope to see you there!

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Maybe go look at Google’s AR animals before they enter the grave – The Verge

Here’s hoping one of Google’s most endearing features isn’t going away.

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By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020.

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Remember Google’s AR search, which can make augmented reality bugs, dinos, neat objects, and buildings appear atop the real world through the lens of your phone? Now might be a good time to take it in because it seems to be vanishing.

According to 9to5Google, the number of animals that will give you AR renders when you search for them has shriveled to just a few. My editor, Richard Lawler, saw the same thing on his Pixel 8 Pro, as did I when I checked my Pixel 6. But when I searched in Safari on my iPhone 15 Pro, there they were: Tyrannosaurus Rex, Spinosaurus, Rhinoceros Beetle, Jewel Beetle, and a Giant Panda!

Perhaps it’s just a bug? Or perhaps Safari is a temporary workaround.

A 3D render of a giant panda sitting on an office floor.

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It wouldn’t be surprising if AR search is shuffling off to the graveyard. Earlier this year, Google jettisoned hundreds of AR hardware employees. The company also lost key leaders of its AR team last year and reportedly shuttered its Project Iris AR glasses in June.

When it rolled out in early 2020, Google’s AR search feature was a boon for some folks stuck in covid lockdown — particularly those of us with children to entertain. It started with animals like tigers, alligators, and mallard ducks, but Google steadily added more creatures, including dinosaurs and bugs. Eventually, the collection grew to include NASA artifacts and fictional characters like Pac-Man, Hello Kitty, and even Pedro Pascal’s son, Baby Yoda.

We asked Google to explain what’s happening, but it didn’t give us an answer by press time. We’ll update if that changes. In the meantime, maybe now is a good time to go look at some AR animals — if they’re still showing up for you. Just in case.

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Golden Globes Screeners Go Digital-Only As Organization Teams With Indee on Streaming Platform (Exclusive) – Hollywood Reporter

Just a few years ago, nominees for and winners of Golden Globe Awards were determined by fewer than 100 people, all of whom were based in the Los Angeles area. But in the aftermath of the 2023 sale of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the establishment of the Golden Globes organization in its place, there are now some 300 Globes voters based all around the world, which has made it much harder for film and television companies to screen awards-hopefuls for all of them.

Until now.

The Hollywood Reporter has learned that on Tuesday, the Globes will be launching an official streaming platform — compatible with all major digital media providers including AppleTV, iOS, Roku and Amazon Fire — through which film and television companies will be able to make their content available directly to Globes voters in their homes.

This model is not unlike the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Academy Screening Room portal, but is being facilitated by Indee, which also facilitates streaming for members of the Producers Guild of America ahead of its PGA Awards.

Indee advertises itself as a highly secure go-between for content providers and awards voters — “with multiple security options for video assets, including forensic and visible watermarking and multi-DRM” — and a much more eco-friendly option than hard-copy screeners.

All uploads will come with a $5000 non-refundable “Golden Globe administrative fee,” which includes one email blast to members. Beyond that, pricing will depend on whether an upload is episodic (up to 60 minutes) or feature-length (61 to 999 minutes), and the level of security desired: no security, with no watermarks ($100 for episodic, $250 for feature-length), medium security, with overlay watermarks ($200 for episodic or $1000 for feature-length) or high security, with forensic watermarks ($350 for episodic or $2000 for feature-length).

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OECD Nations Steer UN Tax Talks Toward Decision-Making – Law360

By Kevin Pinner (April 29, 2024, 6:17 PM EDT) — The terms of reference for a United Nations global tax convention should guide the decision-making of a committee that will negotiate substantive provisions at a later date even though some governments prefer to defer debate on the decision-making procedures to the General Assembly, several OECD government representatives said Monday….