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How to Better Manage People with One Simple Test

October 26, 2021October 26, 2021 Loknath DasBetter, How, Manage, One, People, simple, test, to, With

Among the many frustrations that keep managers awake at night is the feeling that their employees are not performing their best in their respective jobs. This suspicion can be the source of many performance related issues and can affect new managers and established ones alike. These concerns persist because of not fully knowing why some people work hard to be great employees and others do not. Surprisingly, education, knowledge and experience have little to do with the factors that cause employees not to take full ownership for their jobs. There…

Warren Says Swift Change in Health Care Could Make People Uneasy

January 5, 2020January 5, 2020 Loknath DasCare, change, Could, Health, In, Make, People, Says, Swift, Warren

Elizabeth Warren said Saturday that a big change in the U.S. health-care system would make a lot of people “uneasy,” emphasizing she wouldn’t immediately push a full Medicare for All plan until people have three years to try it. At a town hall in Manchester, Iowa, one voter asked Warren why her Medicare for All plan would take three years to implement rather than putting it in place right away. She said the phase in would give her administration enough time to secure the congressional votes she would need to…

Social media putting young people off alcohol, C&C warned

February 6, 2019 Loknath DasAlcohol, CC, Media, Off, People, Putting, Social, warned, Young

Social media culture is putting people off alcohol, posing challenges to Bulmers-maker C&C, analysts at investment bank Berenberg have told clients. Shares in the company fell 2.6pc in Dublin yesterday after the analysts cut their rating on the company’s stock to ‘sell’. C&C’s stock has been boosted since its acquisition of UK wholesaler Matthew Clark Bibendum, but Berenberg believes market expectations for the company are too high. It says the company’s drinks brands – including Bulmers and Magners cider and Tennent’s lager – are facing structural challenges due to demographics.…

People Who Wear Glasses Are Indeed More Intelligent, Genetic Study Reveals

July 9, 2018 Loknath DasAre, Genetic, glasses, Indeed, Intelligent, More, People, Reveals, Study, Wear, Who

Findings of a new genetic research suggest that people who wear glasses are indeed more intelligent. Researchers said this has something to do with the genes. Wearing Glasses And Intelligence In the new study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications, Gail Davies, from the Center for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, and colleagues involved 300,486 individuals who are between 16 and 102 years old. The participants had taken different thinking tests that were then summarized as general cognitive ability score. They also had genetic testing, which…

Travel and free sex, Miss Travel app is controversial app that helps people see the world for free

June 11, 2018 Loknath Dasand, App, Controversial, for, Free, Helps, Is, Miss, People, See, Sex, That, The, travel, World

Some may call it prostitution, but Miss Travel app likes to call it dating. The app, which is also available as a service on a website, is getting popular because it apparently allows people to travel the world for “free”. Free if you discount the possibility — or rather certainty — of sex. Miss Travel apparently allows rich people — likely to be mostly men — to sponsor trips of other people, in return for companionship and — again not said so explicitly but implied — sex. The dating app…

More people prefer popping pills and drinking healthy tea over exercise to treat high BP

April 11, 2018 Loknath Dasand, BP, Drinking, exercise:, Healthy, High;, More, Over, People, pills, Popping, prefer, Tea, to, treat

According to a recent study, people would rather pop a pill or sip tea than exercise to treat high blood pressure. Researchers wanted to find out how people weigh the benefits of high blood pressure treatment options against its inconvenience. They asked survey respondents to imagine that they had high blood pressure and then asked about their willingness to adopt any of four “treatments” to gain an extra month, year or five years of life. In this survey, the “treatments” proposed were: a daily cup of tea, exercise, pills or…