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Questions To Help Decisions In Uncertain Times

The Harvard Business Review published a useful piece on questions to ask when trying to make business decisions in uncertain times, such as if the decision will make sense in a year, can the decision be used as an example of leadership, and what's the cost of waiting.

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More Or Less In Product Positioning

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Jason Cohen shared a great A Smart Bear article from his archives that discusses positioning your product to offer more for more, more for less, or less for less, and the good and bad of each strategy.

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Work Less, For The Climate

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Jack McGovan published a thought provoking piece on Sower about how working less is an often overlooked piece of climate action. Discussing his own experience and wider movements such as the 4-day work week, a valid case is made that working less reduces commuting emissions, employee burnout, while also increasing the chance for a balanced and happier lifestyle.

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Company Staffed With AI Fails

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University created a software company full of AI agents that staffed various roles such as software engineers, project managers, and HR staff. The company AI staff was set day-to-day tasks that mirror a real life company and measured on their progress, using a number of popular AI products. The best performing agents only managed to complete 24% of the tasks, and some cheated to complete tasks such as renaming usernames in the company chat when their intended correspondent didn't respond.

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Respectful Productivity Rules

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A recent post by Seth Godin lists out some great rules to be reminded of when working with others, like "Don’t invite someone to a meeting if an email or 1:1 conversation will do the job just as well", as well as other respectful productivity rules.

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Creating Business Value With Digital Sustainability

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MIT's Cloan School of Management published a post describing the different ways a company can create business value with digital sustainability, including driving efficiency, attracting talent, working towards company goals, and improved customer reputation.

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Buy European Made

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Buy European Made provides a list of equivalent companies based in Europe across a wide range of products and services such as Clothing, Electronics, Travel, & others.

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Carbon Emissions Of An Email

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Pawprint published a post detailing that the carbon emissions of an emailImage:, as defined in Mike Berners-Lee’s book How Bad Are Bananas, is 0.3g CO2e. Adding an attachment can increase the amount of carbon emitted up to 50g CO2e.

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Doughnut Economics Cities & Regions Guide

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The Doughnut Economics Action Lab released a new guide for cities and regions that want to implement Doughnut Economics, which includes 12 interesting case studies from places like Glasgow, Grenoble, Brussels, Barcelona, & Cornwall that have implemented Doughnut Economics.

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Climate Adaptation Capability Framework

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Adaptation Scotland published an updated Climate Adaptation Capability Framework handbook and starter pack, aimed and helping Scotland's public sector to identify and action climate adaptation. It provides an easy to understand framework that can be used by any organisation.

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