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In his new book, Anu Gupta explains how bias hurts businesses, and offers tools that can help teams save costs and enhance inclusion. Bias is the building block of most challenges we face individually, locally, and globally. It shows up in our interactions with coworkers, family members, and strangers. It impairs the services we provide in our professional lives, such as healthcare, education, or policing.

Not all feats of science meet the eye. This lamp’s material innovation makes it more sustainable. This brutalist lamp has a hidden material innovation you won’t notice at first glance.

The project is the first to take advantage of a new California law designed to speed up development. A typical big box store sits by itself in a sprawling parking lot. But Costco’s newest store, now under construction in South Los Angeles, is very different: On top of the retailer’s 185,000-square-foot warehouse, there will be 800 apartments.

Climatologists say it could be part of a larger trend. For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest are drawing down water levels on the Mississippi River, raising prices for companies that transport goods downstream and forcing governments and business owners to seek alternative solutions.

What happens when TikTok meets business networking? LinkedIn, the unloved stepchild of social networks, has undergone a renaissance of late, with a growing number of users turning to the business-focused network for social interactions. Now, as TikTok fights for its future in the U. S. in court this week, many of the creators who made it big on the short-form video sharing platform are starting to bring vertical video to LinkedIn, too.

If you find yourself frequently showing up late to meetings, these strategies might help. There’s a lot of social pressure to show up to work events at the scheduled time. You don’t typically have to apologize for being early (though you may need to wait for something to start), but you do call attention to yourself in a negative way when you’re late.