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I Tried Lab-Grown Fish Maw. Here’s Why It Could Help Save Our Oceans
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The Anglosphere Responds to the Threat of China | Opinion
The announcement of a pact between Australia, the U.S. and U.K. to build nuclear-powered submarines has stunned and delighted many observers of world affairs.
The countries that are vaccinating children against Covid-19
Cricket superstar Virat Kohli to step down as India's T20 captain
Cricket superstar Virat Kohli has said he will step down as India's T20 captain after the T20 World Cup in November.
What to expect as FDA advisory panel debates Pfizer COVID booster shots
The FDA's independent advisory committee will review data submitted by Pfizer and discuss whether a booster dose is safe for widespread use on Friday.
'Dancing with the Stars' Season 30 Start Date, Line-up, Host, and Judges
"Dancing with the Stars" Season 30 is fast approaching, with 15 famous faces taking to the ballroom floor.
Michael Locksley once lured players from D.C. to Champaign. On Friday, he’s bringing even more.
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Northern Irish police charge two over killing of journalist Lyra McKee
Northern Irish police said on Thursday they had charged two men with the 2019 murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry, whose death sparked outrage in the British-run province.
LeVar Burton Reveals He Now Doesn't Want to Be the New 'Jeopardy!' Host
LeVar Burton arrived as "Jeopardy!" guest host with much fanfare and an army of supporters—but he has now had a change of heart.
Don't know how to invest your extra cash? Let a robot do it for you.
Let's say you have a pile of cash you're ready to invest. I skipped the investment advisor and got a robot to build my portfolio.
Alaska once had the highest vaccination rate. Now it's in a COVID-19 crisis.
Trump abandoned this giant trade deal. Now, China wants in
Beijing has formally applied to join an 11-country Asia-Pacific trade pact, which was once pushed by the United States as a way to counter China's growing influence in the region.
A distracted driver killed my son. Now, I'm fighting to save other families from our pain.
When I arrived home, a police officer confirmed the most devastating news of my life: Mitchel was gone. I collapsed on the family room floor.
Giant blanket wrapped around base of world's biggest tree, a sequoia
The aluminum around the General Sherman Tree is fire-resistant and part of a gallant effort to protect the sequoias in California's rugged Sierra Nevada from threatening wildfires.
'I Gave Up Alcohol a Year Ago—I Feel 10 Years Younger'
I've saved more than $4,000 and 113,000 calories that I would have consumed by drinking alcohol. My hair is also shinier, my skin is more hydrated and I've certainly lost a few chins!
'Prove you're a low-income student': After filing FAFSA, some college students are audited
Many students who complete their FAFSA for financial aid but later are selected for this Education Department audit never make it to college.
As the gun control debate stalls, Medicaid becomes an unlikely tool to fight violence
Two states could pave the way for a national model as local officials look for ways to circumvent the longstanding gun debate in Washington.
Dismembered, damaged, undeterred: After Afghanistan, disabled veterans now fight their forever war
Dispatch from Afghanistan: Marine reflects on what he can't forget
U.S. Marine Bryan Lett served in Afghanistan in 2010. He recorded a video blog to help him cope with what he experienced.
The Backstory: Long COVID causes fatigue, pain. Here's what long-haulers want you to know.
Long-haulers are suffering, they're worried and they're tired of being dismissed. Reporters across the USA TODAY Network share their stories.
Yes, We're Calling It Hispanic Heritage Month And We Know It Makes Some Of You Cringe
D.C.-area forecast: Muggy today with a couple showers and storms possible
It'll be warmer and sunnier this weekend, ahead of cooler temperatures next week.
A Single Fire Killed Thousands Of Sequoias. Scientists Are Racing To Save The Rest
The world's largest trees are adapted to wildfires. But with fires getting more extreme, scientists warn that giant sequoias are running out of time.
'Sex Education' Soundtrack: Every Song Featured in Season 3
"Sex Education's" Music Supervisor Matt Biffa shared his thoughts on the soundtrack, alongside the full list of songs that feature in the series.
Just Circling Back on That Whole Management Thing
Lars Tunbjörk / Agence VU / Redux America has too many managers.In a 2016 Harvard Business Review analysis, two writers calculated the annual cost of excess corporate bureaucracy as about $3 trillion, with an average of one manager per every 4.7 workers. Their story mentioned several case studies—a successful GE plant with 300 technicians and a single supervisor, a Swedish bank with 12,000 workers and three levels of hierarchy—that showed that reducing the number of managers usually led to more productivity and profit. And yet, at the time of the story, 17.6 percent of the U.S. workforce (and 30 percent of the workforce’s compensation) was made up of managers and administrators—an alarming statistic that shows how bloated America’s management ranks had become.The United States, more than anywhere else in the world, is addicted to the concept of management. As I’ve written before, management has become a title rather than a discipline. We have a glut of people in management who were never evaluated on their ability to manage before being promoted to their role. We have built corporate America around the idea that if you work hard enough, one day you might become a manager, someone who makes rather than takes orders. While this is not the only form of management, based on the response to my previous article and my newsletters on the subject, this appears to be how many white-collar employees feel. Across disparate industries, an overwhelming portion of management personnel is focused more on taking credit and placing blame rather than actually managing people, with dire consequences.[Ed Zitron: Why managers fear a remote-work future]This type of “hall monitor” management, as a practice, is extremely difficult to execute remotely, and thus the coming shift toward permanent all- or part-remote work will lead to a dramatic rethinking of corporate structure. Many office workers—particularly those in industries that rely on the skill or creativity of day-to-day employees—are entering a new world where bureaucracy will be reduced not because executives have magically become empathetic during the pandemic, but because slowing down progress is bad business. In my eyes, that looks like a world in which the power dynamics of the office are inverted. With large swaths of people working from home some or all of the time, managers will be assessed not on their ability to intimidate other people into doing things, but on their ability to provide their workers with the tools they need to measurably succeed at their job.In order to survive, managers, in other words, will need to start proving that they actually do something. What makes this shift all the more complicated is that many 21st-century, white-collar employees don’t necessarily need a hands-on manager to make sure they get their work done.One truly insufferable habit of the modern manager is their reliance on the sports metaphor—the home run, the Hail Mary, the slam dunk—when trying to inspire their team. And yet modern businesses regularly fail to learn lessons from successful sports franchises. The strongest modern companies will win the talent war not by simply hiring well from the outside, but by fostering and empowering the employees they have to create and produce for the company in the long term.[Read: The most surreal aspect of returning to the office]The pandemic has laid bare that corporate America disrespects entry-level workers. At many large companies, the early years of your career are a proving ground with little mentorship and training. Too many companies hand out enormous sums to poach people trained elsewhere, while ignoring the way that the best sports teams tend to develop stars—by taking young, energetic people and investing in their future (“trust the process,” etc.). This goes beyond investing in education and courses; it involves taking rising stars in your profession and working to make them as good as your top performer.In a mostly remote world, a strong manager is someone who gets the best out of the people they’re managing, and sees the forest from the trees—directing workers in a way that’s informed by both experience and respect. Unfortunately, the traditional worker-to-manager pipeline often sets people up for inefficiency and failure. It’s the equivalent of taking a pitcher in their prime and making them a coach—being good at one thing doesn’t mean you can make other people good at the same thing. This is known as the Peter principle, a management concept developed by Laurence J. Peter in the late ’60s that posits that a person who’s good at their job in a hierarchical organization will invariably be promoted to a position that requires different skills, until they’re eventually promoted to something they can’t do, at which point they’ve reached their “maximum incompetence.” Consistent evidence shows that the principle is real: A study of sales workers at 214 firms by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that firms prioritize current job performance in promotion decisions over whether the person can actually do the job for which they’re being considered. In doing so, they’re placing higher value on offering the incentive of promotion to get more out of their workers, at the cost of potentially injecting bad management into their organization.Successful sports teams generally—though not always—abide by the mantra that you put the best people for the job in the best position to succeed. That’s why you see a good number of former catchers in baseball end up as fairly successful managers—they’re workhorses who control the pace of the game, learning and directing the approach to each batter and, one might say, the entire field as a result. It’s a logical choice, because it involves a person who participates in both the strategy and the action, understanding the batting order and how to attack it—the same skill set a coach would need.Right now, we basically have only one track (management), and it actively drains talent from an organization by siloing and repressing it in supervisory roles. Employees may rise into management, then leave to go make more money managing somewhere else. What we need—and will likely see—are more organizations opening a different track for people who are very good at their specific job, where these people are compensated for being great at what they do and mentoring others. While not everybody is a born teacher or mentor, I’ve yet to see someone very good at their job who doesn’t have anything useful to impart to the younger generation. Countless companies let high-flying performers write books and do seminars about their successes, but rarely take that success and look inward to see how it might be given to others. And instead of vacuous perks such as pool tables and free lunches, perhaps we simply give talent the means to get distractions and annoyances out of the way, such as assistants and software that automates parts of their job.The reasoning behind this lack of talent focus in modern American business is cultural and fiscal. While you can give people senior-leadership positions, it’s challenging for an executive to keep paying someone more for being good at their job, for fear that they’ll start demanding compensation befitting the revenue that they bring to the business. And when someone is good at their job, it can still be hard to quantify exactly how good they are, or how much they actually contribute to the business. It’s easier to say, “Okay, let’s have you manage some people,” and pay them more to do that.[Read: 6 questions for the boss who wants you back in your cubicle]A focus on talent and potential is why many well-managed NFL teams draft their future quarterback years before their current one is out of his prime—they want someone who can hold the clipboard and spend his time watching and learning so that he can be a starter one day. While this relationship creates tension, there’s also an acknowledgment that winning football games is what matters. It may mean that talent leaves—as happened with Brett Favre, and may happen again with his replacement, Aaron Rodgers, over at Green Bay—but it is also necessary for an organization to last. And the problems that Rodgers has raised in his last years with the Packers have transparently been about a philosophical mismatch: an organization’s failure to listen to and empower its most prolific worker.What I’m talking about here is a fundamental shift in how we view talent in the workplace. Usually, when someone is good at their job, they are given a soft remit to mentor people, but rarely is that formalized into something that is mutually beneficial. A lack of focus on fostering talent is counterintuitive, and likely based on a level of fear that one could train their own replacement, or that a business could foster its own competition. This is a problem that could be solved by paying people more money for being better at their job. Growing talent is also a more sustainable form of business—one that harkens back to the days of apprenticeships—where you’re fostering and locking up talent so that it doesn’t go elsewhere, and doesn’t cost you time and money to have to recruit it (or onboard it, which costs, on average, more than $4,000 a person). Philosophically, it changes organizations from a defensive position (having to recruit to keep up) to an offensive position (building an organization from within), and also greatly expands an organization’s ability to scale affordably.A predominantly remote future will challenge the need for layer upon layer of bureaucracy in American work by rejecting the assumption that “management” is the only way to grow in a company. When a majority of employees are remote, a manager may be considered a tool to organize the assets of an organization and utilize them to their fullest, rather than a title that mostly means “I make sure you’re actually working.” A great manager (like a great coach) can take a good worker and make them great, or take an average worker and make them good. It’s an adjustment from seeing the young as employees who must be tolerated until they’re good to seeing them as early-stage investments who can be grown into something incredibly valuable.Some Millennials entering the workforce feel isolated and hopeless, and not just because they have to work harder and their money doesn’t go as far as it did in previous generations). Recent graduates enter new roles burdened by student debt, knowing that they’re years from being able to even consider saving for a down payment on a house, and are too often told “Get these things done” with no real investment in their future. Young employees have to be their own champions, their own cheerleaders, their own coaches—despite the fact that the organization has a fiscal advantage to get the most out of them. The problem is that modern American capitalism has equated “getting the most out of someone” with “getting the most hours out of them,” rather than getting the most value out of them. “Success,” as I’ve discussed before, is worryingly disconnected from actually succeeding in business.Reducing bureaucracy is also a net positive for the labor market, especially for young people. Entry-level corporate work is extremely competitive and painful, a years-long process in which you’re finding your footing in an industry and an organization. If we can change the lens through which we view those new to the workforce—as the potential hotshots of the future, rather than people who have to prove themselves—we’ll have stronger organizations that waste less money. We should be trying to distill and export the talents of our best performers, and give them what they need to keep doing great things for our companies while also making their colleagues better too.All of this seems inevitable, to me, because a remote future naturally reconfigures the scaffolding of how work is done and how workers are organized. The internet makes the world a much smaller place, which means that simple things such as keeping people on task doesn’t justify an entire position—but mentorship and coaching that can get the best out of each worker does.Hopefully we can move beyond management as a means of control, and toward a culture that appreciates a manager who fosters and grows the greatness in others.
Gabby Petito Update: Lawyer 'Wouldn't Be Surprised' If Brian Laundrie Is Arrested Soon
Brian Laundrie is still not co-operating with a police investigation after he returned home from their trip without the 22-year-old earlier this month.
'The Nowhere Inn': St. Vincent on Rolling Around in Lingerie with Dakota Johnson
Newsweek spoke to St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, and Carrie Brownstein about their new surrealist concert movie "The Nowhere Inn," which is out now.
Gabby Petito's dad blasts Brian Laundrie's family and their 'version of love'
Getir promises speedy deliveries
With its concept of 10-minute grocery deliveries, Istanbul-based Getir could be the next big thing in the retail industry. Valued at $7.5 billion, the company is now breaking through key markets such as Italy, Spain and the US.
Apple and Google Remove Anti-Putin Voting App on Day of Russia Election
An aide to the jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said the tactical voting tool was removed on Friday, as Russia's three-day parliamentary election begins.
'NCIS' Season 19 Release Date, Cast, Trailer, Plot: All the Big Changes This Year
"NCIS" is returning this fall for Season 19 – and things are going to be a little different on the CBS show following last season's Gibbs-related cliffhanger.
Kash Patel: Milley, Biden admin ‘peddling false facts’ on China phone-call controversy
The former chief of staff to the nation’s acting defense secretary during the Trump administration shared his views Thursday on "The Ingraham Angle."
Women are coding the future in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is increasing its efforts to empower women in the technology industry, and at Tuwaiq Academy, women learn to code alongside men in this conservative kingdom.
Paris Is Shocked--Shocked!--Its Submarine Deal Fell Apart
Anyone surprised by the latest diplomatic fracas wasn’t paying attention. The project was deeply troubled, and Australia’s regional security concerns were becoming more acute.
Man meant to be deported in 2016 sentenced to 45 years in prison for attempted murder of Colorado officer
A Colorado jury sentenced a man convicted of shooting a Colorado Springs police officer and leaving him brain-damaged in 2018 to 45 years in prison on Thursday, according to reports.
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Nancy Pelosi Says Republican Party Has Been 'Hijacked By A Cult'
In a wide-ranging speech, the House speaker also attacked China's human rights record, but said Beijing and Washington must come together on climate change.
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COVID-19 Live Updates: U.S. States Ration Healthcare, Global Cases Rebound
A spiraling number of new COVID-19 patients is overwhelming a growing number of American hospitals as the Delta variant continues to wreak havoc in the U.S. and around the world. Follow Newsweek's liveblog for all the latest.
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Woman's List of Rules From Her Ex Sparks Debate Over Toxic Relationships
The 11-point list of rules Carolyn's ex sent included not going within 25 feet of another boy, and sparked a debate over toxic relationships.
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Who Was Michiyo Tsujimura? Google Doodle Celebrates Scientist Known for Green Tea Research
The late scientist known for her pioneering research on green tea was the first woman doctor of agriculture in Japan.
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Covid-19 live updates: Biden accuses Republican governors of risking lives as 24 states threaten legal action
He accused the governors of Florida and Texas of “the worst kind of politics” by pushing back against vaccination and testing requirements.
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School Bus Driver Shortage Cripples America as National Guard Deployed
Troops have been brought in to battle a "severe" and "desperate" bus driver shortage to prevent transportation chaos at the start of another school year.
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'Go get that mouse!': CNN interview gets surprise visitor
CNN's Bianca Nobilo received a surprise visit from a feline friend while interviewing Speaker of the UK House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle.
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'I know we've got to do more': UK speaker speaks out on the rise in political violence
CNN's Bianca Nobilo sits down for an exclusive interview with UK Parliament Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the highest authority in the House of Commons, ahead of hosting US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other counterparts at the G7 Speakers summit.
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Egypt is building a $4.5 billion high-speed rail line
Through a project led by Siemens, passengers and cargo will soon be able to shoot through the Egyptian desert aboard the country's first high-speed train.
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Conservative Justices Are Increasingly Having to Defend the Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas warned against "destroying our institutions" in a lecture defending the nation's highest court.
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Murder suspect arrested 9 years after North Carolina college student Faith Hedgepeth killing
A 28-year-old North Carolina man was arrested and charged with first-degree murder Thursday, nine years after the killing of a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student.
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How Muhammad Ali stayed true to himself on his path to becoming an icon
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'Maybe, he wasn't the problem. Maybe, I was': How Muhammad Ali stayed true to himself on his path to becoming an icon
Muhammad Ali scoops up his baby daughter Maryum and explains a concept that she couldn't possibly understand at such a tender young age: "Your daddy is fighting for you," he is reported as saying in 1968. "Someday, you're going to be able to walk with your head high and not beg for a job. And you don't even know it."
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