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The new VW-owned company has unveiled its stylish EVs—now here’s the plan to build the brand. A few years ago, Scott Keogh was walking on a beach in Natucket when he saw it. An orange Scout SUV with the top down. A classic, if not the original, American SUV that ceased production in 1980.

The key for leaders to have a greater impact is to be strategically mindful.  In the typical working day, leaders juggle multiple priorities, stakeholders, and decisions, which can lead to cognitive overload. Cognitive overload occurs when the demand on cognitive resources exceeds one’s capacity to manage them. It negatively impacts working memory, decision-making capacity, and performance. Additionally, when leaders are in the cognitive-overload spiral, they can’t be mindful, and working harder won’t help. 

One of the most difficult leadership traits to develop is productivity. Here’s how you can improve yours in a world full of distractions. I have spent over 16 years studying more than 30,000 leaders from interviews at my own executive search firm, focusing on the leadership strategies that boost the exemplary candidates above the rest. 

Amazon reportedly wants to sell sofas for $20 on a new discount site. It’s not a bargain. At a typical furniture store, a sofa might cost $2,000. If you browse on Temu, the giant online marketplace that ships products directly from Chinese factories, you can find a sofa for $23. And if Amazon launches its own new discount marketplace, it reportedly plans to limit the price for sofas to $20.

We all get frustrated at work. But what you do with that frustration is important. At some point, someone at work is going to upset you. It might be a supervisor who doesn’t support a project that you’re passionate about. Or it might be a colleague who undermines your work or takes credit for something you did.

The Pew Charitable Trusts and the architectural firm Gensler have a proposition for Denver renters struggling to find a place to live that won’t bust their budgets. Would they take a studio apartment in a renovated skyscraper for $850 a month, under half the going market rent, with the catch being that they would have to share bathroom and kitchen space and likely skip a parking spot? Pew and Gensler are proposing a co-living, aka dormitory approach, as the answer to two problems — creating more affordable housing units and saving Denver’s aging skyscrapers, many of which face economic obsolescence. “Half of renters are spending more than 30% of their income on rent.