<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/karen-gilchrist/">By Karen Gilchrist</a>



Millennials and their younger &#8220;Gen Z&#8221; counterparts are used to facing sweeping criticism over their commitment to the workplace. Brandished the work-shy generation of &#8220;snowflake&#8221; tendencies, millennials are said to expect too much freedom of their employers, and yet <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/burnout-survey.html">84 percent report to experiencing burnout</a> from their excessive workloads.



However, the post-1980s cohort of employees is actually inspiring meaningful ideas that will change the future of work as we know it. That&#8217;s according to a new study from human resources research firm Inavero and freelancing website Upwork, which has highlighted four major ways in which the youngest members of the workforce are setting in motion fundamental change.



Those four shifts include a growing emphasis on self-development, remote working, freelance roles and future-proofing strategies. On these core concepts, the report found a major ideological divide between baby boomers and Gen X —&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/generation-x--not-millennials--is-changing-the-nature-of-work.html">those born from 1965 to 1981</a>&nbsp;— at one end, and younger millennials and Gen Z at the other.



For instance, just one in 10 baby boomers feel they are personally responsible for reskilling as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/17/wef-machines-are-going-to-perform-more-tasks-than-humans-by-2025.html">technology threatens the stability of many traditional careers</a>. Conversely, three times as many millennials and Gen Z-ers believe the onus is on them, rather than their employer, to develop new skills.



Meanwhile, the report which surveyed over 1,000 hiring managers based in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/united-states/">U.S.</a>, found that younger managers were much more willing to accommodate flexible working requests of their employees — and indeed want them for themselves — then their older colleagues.



Here are the ways in which millennials and Gen Z are reshaping the workforce:



<ul><li>Reskilling &#8211;&nbsp;With job automation a growing subject of debate, almost all managers (96 percent) say they believe reskilling is important for employees. However, there is a generational divide on the best approach. While the vast majority of baby boomers feel the onus is on employers to reskill their staff, millennials and Gen Z-ers are more likely to proactively seek out self-development and training schemes.</li><li>Planning ahead &#8211;&nbsp;Younger generation managers are more likely than their elders to consider future workforce planning a top priority. Indeed, they are nearly two times more likely than baby boomers to have made progress in developing a flexible talent strategy as well as in investing in technology to support a remote workforce.</li><li>Remote working &#8211;&nbsp;Younger generation managers are more likely to embrace remote working, both for their employees and their staff. Three-quarters (74 percent) of millennial and Gen Z managers have team members who work a significant portion of their time remotely, versus 58 percent of baby boomers. By 2028, 73 percent of all teams are expected to have remote workers.</li><li>Embracing freelancers &#8211;&nbsp;Millennial managers are more than twice as likely as baby boomers to have increased their use of freelancers in the past few years, and are projected to continue increasing their usage going forward. That is due to the value they see in terms of productivity and cost efficiencies.</li></ul>



With the majority of baby boomers on the cusp of retirement, and a new wave of millennials and Gen Z-ers set to join the workforce in the coming years, that gives an indication of kinds of ideas that likely lie ahead, Upwork&#8217;s CEO Stephane Kasriel told&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/make-it/">CNBC Make It</a>.



&#8220;As younger generations ascend in the workforce and become the majority of managers in corporate America they&#8217;ll reshape work as we know it,&#8221; said Kasriel.



Millennials and Gen Z currently account for slightly over a third of the workforce (38 percent). In the next decade, that figure is set to shoot up to 58 percent, making the youthful generations the most dominant in the workplace. With that will come a greater number of them in managerial positions, too. Already today, 48 percent of younger generation managers are director level or higher.



Kasriel explained that it means employees can expect to see more support from their managers for flexible and unconventional work structures.



&#8220;The traditional 9-to-5 office job doesn&#8217;t adequately support the lives millennials and Gen Zs want to live,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They are flexible-work natives, raised during and after the dotcom bubble, where the acceleration of technology has sped up exponentially over time.



&#8220;As they ascend into managerial positions, they&#8217;re ditching traditional, archaic models of work in favor of a flexible, remote workforce. They&#8217;ll work with more freelancers, invest in reskilling and empower their teams to work remotely.&#8221;



Kasriel also noted that it creates opportunities for millennials and Gen Z-ers who enter managerial positions to right some of the wrongs of his own older generation.



&#8220;They should fix the issues that my generation didn&#8217;t see coming or didn&#8217;t have the courage to fix,&#8221; Kasriel said of millennial managers. More specifically, that should include investing in lifelong learning for employees and encouraging flexible working structures to increase their freedoms and reduce pressures on some of the most overcrowded cities, he said.



&#8220;It&#8217;s time to build the workforce of the 21st century, and the social contract that goes with it,&#8221; said Kasriel.



This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/how-millennials-and-gen-z-are-reshaping-the-future-of-the-workforce.html and is republished with its permission.

How millennials and Gen Z are reshaping the future of the workforce

Is Greece’s economic nightmare over? | CNBC Reports

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/tom-huddleston-jr/">By Tom Huddleston </a>



The <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/11/tim-berners-lee-the-web-is-dysfunctional-with-perverse-incentives.html">World Wide Web</a> is 30 years old today.



Three decades ago — on March 12, 1989, to be exact — British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for what&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/09/10-ways-the-web-and-internet-have-transformed-our-lives.html">would become the World Wide Web</a>&nbsp;to his boss at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).



Today, Berners-Lee is considered an internet pioneer. However, the feedback that Berners-Lee received from his boss for the revolutionary idea in 1989 was not quite as exuberant as you might expect.



&#8220;Vague, but exciting…&#8221; was the simple, and somewhat understated,&nbsp;<a href="http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html">hand-written reaction</a>&nbsp;scribbled on Berners-Lee&#8217;s proposal by his boss at CERN at the time, Mike Sendall.



Happily, Sendall approved Berners-Lee&#8217;s proposal and, a year later, Sendall gave Berners-Lee permission to buy a high-performance NeXT computer (built by Steve Jobs, after he left Apple, and designed for technical and scientific work) that would become<a href="http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co8232360/next-cube-computer-1990-personal-computer">&nbsp;the world&#8217;s first web server</a>.



Berners-Lee had submitted his idea in <a href="https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html">a paper</a> titled &#8220;Information Management: A Proposal,&#8221; in which he argued for the creation of an information management system he described as &#8220;a large hypertext database with typed links.&#8221; The idea was to offer universal access to use the then-nascent internet, not just to communicate, but to store and access vast troves of online documents and data.



While the internet itself already existed in 1989 — in the form of large networks of connected computers — Berners-Lee&#8217;s proposal is now credited as the first step toward the World Wide Web as we know it today. The &#8220;web&#8221; (as it&#8217;s now commonly called) refers to the way we typically navigate the internet by clicking on hypertext to visit websites and access various types of data online.



Berners-Lee built the world&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html">first website</a>&nbsp;in 1991, using the same NeXT computer to create a page simply titled &#8220;World Wide Web,&#8221; featuring links to additional pages with information on himself, his team of scientists and the history of their project, among other things.



The website&#8217;s landing page described the World Wide Web as &#8220;a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.&#8221; Today, we just call it &#8220;the web.&#8221;



Meanwhile, Berners-Lee himself has become fairly outspoken about the direction the web has taken in recent years. On Monday, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/11/tim-berners-lee-the-web-is-dysfunctional-with-perverse-incentives.html">he published a letter</a> saying the web is no longer a &#8220;force for good&#8221; and laying out three &#8220;sources of dysfunction&#8221; on the modern internet. Those include malicious online behavior like government hacking and online bullying, as well as companies&#8217; pursuit of advertising revenue that can result in the spread of misinformation and the exploitation of users&#8217; personal information.



This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/12/feedback-world-wide-web-inventor-berners-lee-got-from-boss-on-the-idea.html and is republished with its permission.

The World Wide Web turned 30 this month — this is the feedback its inventor got when he pitched the idea to his boss in 1989

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/emmie-martin/">By Emmie Martin</a>



Despite his legendary stock-picking abilities, Warren Buffett remains a staunch supporter of index funds. He <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/why-warren-buffett-says-index-funds-are-the-best-investment.html">favors them</a> over most other investing options.



The Oracle of Omaha even said he&#8217;s instructed the trustee in charge of his estate to invest 90 percent of his money into the S&amp;P 500 for his wife after he dies, Buffett told CNBC&#8217;s Becky Quick in an exclusive interview on &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221; on Monday.



&#8220;There&#8217;s been no better bet than America,&#8221; he says.



Here&#8217;s why Buffett&#8217;s favorite investment can be a smart choice for almost anyone, especially those who are new to the market.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">What index funds are</h4>



Index funds are a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2014/05/06/what-is-an-index-fund.html">form of passive investing</a>. They hold every stock in an index such as the S&amp;P 500, which includes big-name companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Google, and they offer low turnover rates, so&nbsp;<a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/indexfund.asp">fees and taxes tend to be low</a>&nbsp;as well.



You can think of an index fund as a basket of stocks with hundreds or thousands of different ones inside, explains Nick Holeman, a certified financial planner at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.betterment.com/">Betterment</a>.



&#8220;It&#8217;s the cheapest and easiest way to diversify your money that you&#8217;re investing,&#8221; Holeman says.



The rate of return for each index fund is determined by the performance of the companies that are in it, which can balance each other out. Say you buy an index that contains only two companies, and one goes up by 3 percent but the other goes down by 2 percent. In that case, you&#8217;re still up by 1 percent overall.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Why they can be a great bet</h4>



A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/24/why-an-index-fund-is-warren-buffetts-favorite-way-to-invest.html">major benefit of index funds</a>&nbsp;is that they&#8217;re low-cost. That&#8217;s because they don&#8217;t require much effort to manage: You just purchase the index and let it do its thing instead of following, buying and selling shares in particular companies.



Index funds are also tax efficient because they don&#8217;t require much trading. Managers are &#8220;not constantly buying and selling within that fund,&#8221; Holeman says. &#8220;Anytime that you do a lot of buying and selling, there&#8217;s the potential to cost yourself a lot in taxes.&#8221;



That can translate to more money in your pocket. Because you aren&#8217;t paying an advisor as much as you would for actively managed funds, you&#8217;re probably saving money in fees that could cut into your returns, Holeman says.



Another advantage to index funds is that they aren&#8217;t tied to the success of a single entity.



&#8220;The trick is not to pick the right company,&#8221; Buffett&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/12/warren-buffett-says-index-funds-make-the-best-retirement-sense-practically-all-the-time.html">told CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;On The Money&#8221; in 2017</a>. &#8220;The trick is to essentially buy all the big companies through the S&amp;P 500 and to do it consistently.&#8221;



Remember, diversification is key. Always make sure that you&#8217;re <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/19/dont-follow-this-common-piece-of-investing-advice.html">doing your homework</a>, and consider working with a financial professional (as long as they&#8217;re a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/13/why-its-important-to-know-what-fiduciary-means.html">fiduciary</a>) to craft a investment plan that makes the most sense for you.



This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/26/warren-buffett-wants-90-percent-of-his-estate-invested-in-index-funds.html?recirc=taboolainternal and is republished with its permission.

Warren Buffett wants 90 percent of his wealth to go to this one investment after he’s gone

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/sarah-berger/">By Sarah Berger</a>



At 29, Taylor Swift has 32 Grammy nominations and 10 wins. She has seven hit albums, her concert tours&nbsp;<a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8487606/taylor-swift-reputation-stadium-tour-breaks-record-highest-grossing-us-tour">break records</a>&nbsp;and her estimated net worth in 2018 was a whopping&nbsp;<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2018/07/11/taylor-swifts-net-worth-320-million-in-2018/#6e7341cb233f">$320 million.</a>



Swift turns 30 this year (in December) and despite her success, she says her 20s have been filled with trials and tribulations. But Swift has learned from them.



One of the noteworthy things Swift has learned is about the perils of being too nice.



&#8220;Being sweet to everyone all the time can get you into a lot of trouble,&#8221; she writes for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a26628467/taylor-swift-30th-birthday-lessons/">Elle</a>&nbsp;in an article called &#8220;30 Things I Learned Before 30.&#8221; &#8220;While it may be born from having been raised to be a polite young lady, this can contribute to some of your life&#8217;s worst regrets if someone takes advantage of this trait in you,&#8221; she says.



&#8220;Grow a backbone, trust your gut, and know when to strike back,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;Be like a snake — only bite if someone steps on you.&#8221;



Swift also says she&#8217;s learned that &#8220;it&#8217;s good to mess up&#8221; and to learn from your mistakes.



At 29, Taylor Swift has 32 Grammy nominations and 10 wins. She has seven hit albums, her concert tours&nbsp;<a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8487606/taylor-swift-reputation-stadium-tour-breaks-record-highest-grossing-us-tour">break records</a>&nbsp;and her estimated net worth in 2018 was a whopping&nbsp;<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2018/07/11/taylor-swifts-net-worth-320-million-in-2018/#6e7341cb233f">$320 million.</a>



Swift turns 30 this year (in December) and despite her success, she says her 20s have been filled with trials and tribulations. But Swift has learned from them.



One of the noteworthy things Swift has learned is about the perils of being too nice.



&#8220;Being sweet to everyone all the time can get you into a lot of trouble,&#8221; she writes for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a26628467/taylor-swift-30th-birthday-lessons/">Elle</a>&nbsp;in an article called &#8220;30 Things I Learned Before 30.&#8221; &#8220;While it may be born from having been raised to be a polite young lady, this can contribute to some of your life&#8217;s worst regrets if someone takes advantage of this trait in you,&#8221; she says.



&#8220;Grow a backbone, trust your gut, and know when to strike back,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;Be like a snake — only bite if someone steps on you.&#8221;



Swift also says she&#8217;s learned that &#8220;it&#8217;s good to mess up&#8221; and to learn from your mistakes.



&#8220;Trying and failing and trying again and failing again is normal,&#8221; she says.So &#8220;take risks.&#8221;



&#8220;It&#8217;s especially good to do this in your twenties because we are searching. That&#8217;s GOOD. We&#8217;ll always be searching but never as intensely as when our brains are still developing at such a rapid pace.&#8221;



<a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a26628467/taylor-swift-30th-birthday-lessons/">Other things Swift says she learned</a>&nbsp;in her 20s range from the small — like how to make a Mojito and her discovery of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.command.com/3M/en_US/command/">Command tape</a>&nbsp;— to the huge. Swift says her mom&#8217;s cancer recurrence taught her not to sweat the small stuff, and she learned to heal childhood scars, like the insecurities that came from being an unpopular kid in grade school who sat alone at the lunch table.



Swift has also learned to forgive herself. &#8220;Step into the daylight and let it go,&#8221; she writes.



This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/taylor-swift-being-polite-can-lead-to-some-of-your-worst-regrets.html and is republished with its permission.

Can politeness lead to ‘some of your life’s worst regrets’ ? Taylor Swift seems to think so…

5G will change your phone and your world | CNBC Reports

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/karen-gilchrist/">By Karen Gilchrist</a><a href="https://twitter.com/_karengilchrist">@_KARENGILCHRIST</a>



When Pat Brown was working in his research lab in 2009, he had “zero” intention of starting a business — much less one that would win&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/united-nations/" class="">United Nations</a>&nbsp;backing and investment from the likes of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=MSFT" class="">Microsoft</a>&nbsp;founder&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/bill-gates/" class="">Bill Gates</a>.



No, his goal then was “simple.”



“I basically decided I was going to look for the most important problem that I could have the opportunity of solving,” he told&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/make-it/" class="">CNBC Make It</a>.



But when the former pediatrician-turned-Stamford professor discovered what that problem was — namely the “catastrophic” use of animals in our food system” — he realized he had to go “all in.”



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Pat Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods.Impossible Foods



Brown is the founder and CEO of Impossible Foods, a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/california/" class="">California</a>-based food company attempting to revolutionize the way we think about animal agriculture with its plant-based meat substitute, commonly known as the “Impossible Burger.”



He started the business in 2011 after his academic research led him to discover the detrimental impact of meat production on the planet.



Meat production is considered by far one of the world’s greatest contributors to climate change, not only for the level of greenhouse gas it produces, but also the water and land consumption it requires. However, despite growing awareness around the issue, Brown noted that education had done little to curb consumers’ insatiable appetites for meat.



So, bailing on his academic career — and colleagues — the then 56-year-old set about creating an alternative product that could give the same experience as meat.Out for beef



“The only way to solve the problem is to give consumers what they know they want, and make it our job to find a better way to produce it and find a better technology than cows and other animals,” said Brown.



A few years later, the Impossible team believed they’d discovered the solution in a molecule called heme. Found in abundance in both animals and plants, the molecule is responsible for carrying oxygen in living organisms and giving blood its red color. By augmenting the molecule in plants, researchers found they could create a product that looks and tastes like meat.



And so, in 2016, the Impossible Burger was born.



By using plants rather than traditional meat, Impossible Food’s website claims production of one of its burgers saves the equivalent of 75 square feet of land, one half tub of bathwater and 18 miles of emissions in a car compared to a regular beef patty.



Having developed that technology, Brown said his company had to be the one to get it out to burger lovers — in spite of his own lack of business experience.



“I didn’t want to trust that just some regular business would do it right,” said Brown.



Fortunately for Brown, however, investors saw something in his proposition. Over the years, the business has&nbsp;<a href="https://agfundernews.com/impossible-foods-snags-75m-series-e-from-singapore-state-fund-temasek.html" class="">racked up $396 million</a>&nbsp;from backers including Bill Gates,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=GOOGL" class="">Google</a>&nbsp;Ventures and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures.



Of course, Impossible Food is not the only business that’s created a plant-based meat alternative.



<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/21/how-bill-gates-backed-vegan-beyond-meat-is-winning-over-meat-eaters.html" class="">Beyond Meat is one major player which has amassed a loyal following from its plant-based “bleeding” burger</a>. Started in 2009 by Ethan Brown, the company is a joint winner, alongside Impossible Foods, of the United Nations’&nbsp;<a href="http://web.unep.org/championsofearth/laureates/2018/impossible-foods-and-beyond-meat" class="">Champions of the Earth Award, in the Science and Innovation category</a>. Both companies share a number of high-profile investors.



However, despite their shared ideologies, Brown said their products differ vastly and he currently sees little value in collaboration.



Instead, he said the business is focused on research and development to improve not only its burger, but also to develop new products including plant-based steaks and fish.



“There’s so many things that you have to get right — and the dominant thing is deliciousness. The second most important thing, I think, probably is versatility, and then, of course, nutritional value,” said Brown.Reinventing the burger



After several years of iteration, in January 2019, the company unveiled a new version of its flagship product, dubbed the Impossible Burger 2.0. In addition to containing 30 percent less salt, 40 percent less saturated fat and fewer calories, it also replaced its core ingredient, wheat, with soy protein, making it gluten-free.



The use of soy, a type of bean protein native to East Asia, has come under criticism over recent years as a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/soy" class="">key driver of deforestation</a>. But Brown insists that by using the product as a direct source of protein — rather than as animal feed, as has typically been the case — Impossible Foods can speed up an otherwise “inefficient” process and reduce the overall use of soy.



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The Impossible Burger re-imaged as an Impossible Satay Slider by Prive Orchard in Singapore.Impossible Foods



“Pigs do a very inefficient job of turning it (soy) into meat,” said Brown.



“If we replaced all the meat in the world with our product made primarily from soy, the amount of soy cultivation would be vastly reduced,” said Brown. “We’re going to drive reforestation by greatly reducing the demand for soy, even though soy is a major ingredient in our product.”Expanding across the globe



That agenda is going to be especially important in areas that have been hardest hit by deforestation, such as parts of Asia. Incidentally, the region is also Impossible Food’s next battleground.



“Asia is responsible for more than 40 percent of global meat consumption. And so if we’re going to achieve our mission, we have to be serving consumers in Asia as soon as possible,” said Brown.



Impossible Burger started out on that path in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/hong-kong/" class="">Hong Kong</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/19/the-meatless-impossible-burger-makes-its-first-foray-outside-the-us.html" class="">in April 2018</a>.



In March this year, it reached&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/singapore/" class="">Singapore</a>, where it will initially be available in eight locations – including Potato Head Singapore, Prive Orchard, Bread Street Kitchen by Gordon Ramsey. Those outlets will offer both the original burger, as well as a host of Asian-inspired dishes.



“Burgers have always been featured; we wanted to be a bit different from the rest,” said Chef Robin Ho of Prive, who has re-imagined the ground beef substitute as a Singapore-inspired Impossible Satay Slider (around $11) and an Impossible Meatball Spaghetti (around $14).



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Chef Robin Ho of Prive Orchard showcases the restaurant’s new Impossible Meatball Spaghetti.Impossible FoodsBringing sustainability home



Impossible Foods’ targeted global expansion is part of Brown’s wider strategy to demonstrate the product’s versatility beyond the classic American burger.



Brown said he believes that will provide a vital step in the company’s mission to get its product onto shelves and into homes, so consumers can test it for themselves.



“Getting it into retail will give users a real at-home experience, and I think that’s going to have a major positive impact,” said Brown, who hopes to achieve that goal within the next year or two.



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Impossible Food’s ground beef reinvented as gyoza, crisp pancakes and meatball skewers at Empress in Singapore.Impossible Foods



More than at any other point, that move will see the company come head-to-head with the meat industry incumbents it is trying to defeat.



As with the rest of Impossible Foods’ roll-out, Brown said he does not expect subsidies or government support in that battle, just the opportunity to give consumers more choice over the products they consume.



“We just want a fair chance to compete in the marketplace and let consumers choose. It’s very hard in the U.S., politically, to be against that,” said Brown.



The CEO said he’s confident that his products will be able to compete on price with higher-end meat products within two to three years.



“It’s our job to make a product that’s more delicious and better for consumers than what they make,” Brown noted. “If we succeed, everybody’s better off. And if we don’t succeed in making a better product that consumers prefer, they have nothing to fear.”



This article first appeared on CNBC and is republished with its permission: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/bill-gates-backed-impossible-burger-ceo-patrick-brown-on-fighting-meat.html

Why billionaire Bill Gates is backing this business that wants to change the way we eat

Natasha Turak
Source: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/algeria-was-silent-during-arab-spring-now-its-erupting-in-protest.html">Algeria was silent during the Arab Spring. Now its streets are erupting in protest</a>
<ul>
<li>One thing Algerians don&#8217;t want, protesters say, is to be compared to the Arab Spring or share the fate of so many of their neighbors.</li>
<li>Economic stagnation and unemployment has long beset the country of 41 million, 70 percent of whom are younger than 30. Regional analysts warn of further financial woes triggered by the new uncertainty.</li>
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Algerians are taking to the streets in droves as groups from across society demand their longtime president end his time in power.
Cities across Africa&#8217;s largest country have been flooded for the past two weeks with protesters opposing their ageing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika&#8217;s fifth re-election bid after 20 years in power. The demonstrations, which on March 1 by some estimates numbered more than a million, have sent shockwaves through the oil and gas-rich country — OPEC&#8217;s ninth largest crude producer.
For the security-heavy state that went largely untouched by the Arab Spring, the strength and audacity of the protests are a complete surprise, says Farah Soumes, a local freelance writer who&#8217;s been taking part in the demonstrations.
&#8220;When I went out into the streets, I was expected to be arrested, not to see solidarity. It&#8217;s amazing what is happening,&#8221; Soumes told CNBC via phone.
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Soumes and others involved in the protests described participation by a broad array of Algerian society.
&#8220;There were intellectuals, former government and opposition party members, students, teachers, lawyers, women, men and the working class — you had a mix of conservative Algerians, Islamists, and as well as girls wearing jeans and makeup,&#8221; described Jihane Boudiaf, an Algerian analyst for IHS Markit, who was in the capital Algiers for the demonstrations.
&#8220;There is an incredible feeling of fraternity happening,&#8221; Boudiaf told CNBC. &#8220;Old and young people, united over one cause. But it&#8217;s not just about Bouteflika staying in power, it&#8217;s also about wanting a genuine change. A change in the system — they want more openness, transparency, opportunity.&#8221;
An absent president
The 82-year-old Bouteflika, who took power in 1999 and ended Algeria&#8217;s bloody decade-long civil war, has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013. He is currently in a hospital in Switzerland undergoing medical treatment. He was not physically present to submit his own candidacy or address protesters.
Earlier this week, through a representative, the president offered to hold new elections after a year and a referendum on the constitution if re-elected during the country&#8217;s next contest on April 18. But that failed to satisfy activists, who have called for new and bigger protests on Friday. They say they hope to bring 20 million people out to the streets — half of Algeria&#8217;s population.
Peaceful protests and painful memories
Algerian state media played images of protesters fighting with police, something the demonstrators contacted by CNBC say is misleading. Videos posted to social media and witness reports describe overwhelmingly peaceful protests, with young people even cleaning up before heading home.
&#8220;Most people wouldn&#8217;t say &#8216;are you going to the protests?&#8217; — they would say &#8216;are you going to the selmiyya?&#8221; Boudiaf said. Selmiyya means &#8220;the peaceful&#8221; in Arabic.
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This, she said, was likely because of the negative connotations linked to popular uprisings that remain in a country still healing from the wounds of its brutal civil war. The conflict, which went on from 1991 to 2002 and pitted Islamists against government forces, saw more than 150,000 people killed.
&#8216;Not the Arab Spring&#8217;
One thing Algerians don&#8217;t want, protesters say, is to be compared to the Arab Spring or share the fate of so many of their neighbors.
&#8220;People don&#8217;t want the same thing to happen that happened in other Arab Spring countries like Libya, Syria,&#8221; Boudiaf said. &#8220;Algeria lived the Arab Spring much earlier, so people are afraid of the past.&#8221;
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&#8220;A lot of Algerians are also worried about the danger of the Islamists taking over the social movement,&#8221; she added, &#8220;because that is what happened in 1988 and the election of 1992,&#8221; when the seeds of the civil war were planted.
President threatens &#8216;chaos&#8217; and &#8216;infiltration&#8217;
On Thursday, a letter published by Algeria&#8217;s state news agency quoted Bouteflika warning of &#8220;chaos&#8221; and infiltration of the protests by &#8220;domestic and foreign forces.&#8221;
For Algeria&#8217;s young people, that language is a sign of politicians playing the conspiracy card rather than addressing the demands at hand.
But the president also praised demonstrators for &#8220;peacefully expressing their opinions.&#8221;
Economic stagnation and unemployment has long beset the country of 41 million, 70 percent of whom are younger than 30. Regional analysts warn of further financial woes triggered by the new uncertainty.
&#8220;Algeria is arguably in a much worse starting position than the likes of Egypt and Tunisia were in 2011 and, as a result, the economic fallout could be more severe,&#8221; said Jason Tuvey, a senior emerging markets economist at Capital Economics, in a research note. The International Monetary Fund estimates the country&#8217;s current account deficit at 9 percent of its gross domestic product, a worse figure than that of the Arab Spring countries in 2010.
Still, the unrest is unlikely to impact the country&#8217;s liquefied natural gas and oil exports, which account for 85 percent of national exports and about 20 percent of GDP, according to OPEC statistics. The protests are not currently targeted at production facilities, whose security is very high. Algeria currently produces 1.05 million barrels of oil per day.
Could the situation escalate?

&#8220;Without iron-clad concessions from le pouvoir, protests will persist if not grow and intensify in the run-up to the vote on 18 April,&#8221; said Anthony Skinner, director of MENA research at Verisk Maplecroft. &#8220;Le Pouvoir&#8221; is the name attributed to Algeria&#8217;s ruling elite, which means &#8220;the power&#8221; in French.
&#8220;Cracking down hard on protests and having Bouteflika re-elected would be a risky approach for le pouvoir not just because it could trigger conflict, but also because it would further undermine the already limited legitimacy enjoyed by the ruling elite.&#8221;
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Eight years after the Arab Spring, observers hope that Bouteflika does not repeat the mistakes of his Arab counterparts who triggered war and displacement by responding heavy-handedly.
But if the political leadership feels its back is against the wall, &#8220;it may resort to more extreme measures,&#8221; Skinner warned. 
Furthermore, he said, &#8220;while most protesters reject violence, a heavy crackdown by the police could adversely change the dynamic and potentially encourage hard-core elements to emerge and confront the security apparatus.&#8221;
&#8220;People are not afraid anymore,&#8221; Soumes said, but added: &#8220;Algeria is very unpredictable. Whoever tells you they know what is going to happen, they are clueless. I myself don&#8217;t know what is going to happen … A lot is happening very fast and in every direction.&#8221;

Algeria was silent during the Arab Spring. Now its streets are erupting in protest

Stores are starting to track your every move | CNBC Reports

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/dustinmckissen/">By Dustin McKissen</a> 



<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/warren-buffett-and-bill-gates-agree-giving-up-this-one-thing-will-make-you-more-successful.html">Success</a> isn&#8217;t easy — and it certainly doesn&#8217;t happen overnight, but there are little things you can do every day to ensuring that you achieve your professional goals. The world&#8217;s most legendary leaders, from <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/04/self-made-millionaires-swear-by-these-5-morning-routinesand-they-all-take-less-than-10-minutes.html">Elon Musk and Oprah Winfrey to CEOs</a> at <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a>, all view <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/tony-robbins-says-the-most-successful-people-believe-in-these-7-lies-and-psychology-agrees.html">success as a work in progress</a>.



They key is to stay patient and committed. Here are six things you need to do on a daily basis if you want to be successful in life:



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">1. Read a book that isn&#8217;t directly related to your career</h4>



<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/20/simon-sinek-these-2-life-changing-books-will-train-your-brain-for-success.html">Reading</a>&nbsp;is one of the easiest ways to experience life from another perspective and develop the empathy required to be an effective leader. But it&#8217;s important to expand your knowledge beyond your expertise.



There&#8217;s a reason why <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/16/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-says-he-was-raised-by-books.html">Elon Musk</a> includes works of science fiction and biographies as some of the essentials on his reading list. &#8220;I was raised by books. Books, and then my parents,&#8221; Musk said in an interview with <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/elon-musk-inventors-plans-for-outer-space-cars-finding-love-w511747">Rolling Stone</a>.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">2. Get sweaty</h4>



No, we&#8217;re not talking about going to the sauna or doing hot yoga.



Developing the courage to do something outside of your comfort zone is a sign that you&#8217;re leveling up. Otherwise, you won&#8217;t get very far in life. If you hate public speaking, be the first to speak at your next team meeting. Although you might get so nervous that you end up with sweat stains beneath your armpit sleeves, just do it anyway. It&#8217;ll get easier.



<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/why-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-spent-years-learning-mandarin-chinese-n232266">Mark Zuckerberg spent years </a>learning Mandarin. And guess what? He did a pretty good job mastering it. Fear and growth cannot exist in the same space. One has to leave in order for the other to flourish.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">3. Exercise</h4>



In his five-year study of rich people, author&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/17/tom-corley-i-study-millionaires-this-is-the-secret-to-success.html">Tom Corley</a>&nbsp;found that exercising was something they all had in common. &#8220;Those who have forged the habit of exercising aerobically have tremendous competitive advantages over those who don&#8217;t,&#8221; he&nbsp;<a href="http://richhabits.net/this-is-why-self-made-millionaires-exercise-aerobically/">wrote in his blog</a>. Those advantages include higher IQ (intelligence quotient), willpower, confidence and up to 20 percent more energy.



A number of self-made billionaires, including Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sanberg and Richard Branson, incorporate exercise into their daily routines. <a href="https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/PhysicalActivityLifeExpectancy">Research</a> even found that small amounts of daily exercise can significantly help to extend your life.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">4. Give back</h4>



The myth that the lone hero succeeded because they managed to pull themselves up by the bootstraps is just that — a myth. Truly successful people understand the importance of giving back, especially to those in need.



In 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/warren-buffett-and-bill-gates-agree-giving-up-this-one-thing-will-make-you-more-successful.html">Warren Buffett</a>&nbsp;started the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/02/look-whos-joined-buffett-gates-giving-pledge.html">Giving Pledge</a>, a commitment by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/14-billionaires-signed-bill-gates-and-warren-buffetts-giving-pledge.html">wealthy individuals and families</a>&nbsp;to give away more than half their fortune to causes like poverty alleviation and global health.



But it doesn&#8217;t have to be massive amounts of money. It can be as simple as offering to help an overworked colleague or an elderly person with their grocery bags. If you&#8217;re too busy to give back or return a favor, then you&#8217;re too busy to succeed.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">5. Take a moment to remember your competition</h4>



<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QblACgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT138&amp;lpg=PT138&amp;dq=I+play+to+win,+whether+during+practice+or+a+real+game.+And+I+will+not+let+anything+get+in+the+way+of+me+and+my+competitive+enthusiasm+to+win.&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=EmGTZJw0kt&amp;sig=ACfU3U0t4IzhywsJnkVBoO-AgzZ6BYhvIg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiAwZ-Vz-vgAhWumeAKHeE1ASsQ6AEwB3oECAAQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=I%20play%20to%20win%2C%20whether%20during%20practice%20or%20a%20real%20game.%20And%20I%20will%20not%20let%20anything%20get%20in%20the%20way%20of%20me%20and%20my%20competitive%20enthusiasm%20to%20win.&amp;f=false">Michael Jordan once said</a>, &#8220;I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.&#8221; The professional basketball player went from getting cut from his high school basketball team all the way to six championships and creating one of the most valuable athletic brands in history.



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">&#8220;I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.&#8221;-Michael Jordan</blockquote>



Failing to forgive and holding grudges can weigh you down, but acknowledging your competition and doubters (a.k.a. the haters) can be a powerful form of motivation. It pushes you to do everything in your power to succeed and prove them wrong.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">6. Get outside and think</h4>



Everyone knows we all spend way too much time on our phones (<a href="https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/05/18/987607/0/en/Smartphone-Obsession-Grows-with-25-of-Millennials-Spending-More-Than-5-Hours-Per-Day-on-the-Phone.html">what&#8217;s new, millennials</a>?), but what we don&#8217;t talk about is what so many of us fail to do: Drop the devices, get outside, walk and&nbsp;just think.



A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf">study from the American Psychology Association</a>&nbsp;found that outdoor walks can increase creativity and improve problem-solving skills. &#8220;When there is a premium on generating new ideas in the workday, it should be beneficial to incorporate walks,&#8221; the researchers wrote.



<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/23/why-ceos-at-google-facebook-and-linkedin-love-walking-meetings.html">Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson and CEOs</a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>&nbsp;and LinkedIn also love holding their meetings on foot because it helps with brainstorming new concepts. &#8220;I find it to be a much quicker way of getting down to business, making a decision and sealing the deal,&#8221; Branson wrote in his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/why-you-should-stand-meetings">blog</a>. &#8220;Plus, it&#8217;s a great way to fit in a bit of exercise and stay focused on a busy day.&#8221;



Dustin McKissen is the founder of <a href="http://www.mckissen.co/">McKissen + Company</a>, a strategic communications firm in St. Charles, Missouri. He was also named one of LinkedIn&#8217;s &#8220;Top Voices in Management and Corporate Culture.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/DMcKissen">@DMcKissen </a>.



This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/06/bill-gates-warren-buffett-google-ceos-and-billionaires-do-these-6-things-every-day-to-be-successful.html and is republished with its permission.

Self-made billionaires like Warren Buffett and Elon Musk prove if you don’t make time for these 6 little things every day, you’ll never be successful

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/karen-gilchrist/">By Karen Gilchrist </a>



With increasing talk of <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/17/wef-machines-are-going-to-perform-more-tasks-than-humans-by-2025.html">job disruption and automation</a>, it&#8217;s important to think about the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/01/hr-experts-share-the-skills-employees-will-most-need-in-the-future.html">skills that will be most in demand in the future</a>.



<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=MSFT">Microsoft</a>, in its latest research, defined those as digital skills, analytical abilities and continuous learning capabilities. In particular, the tasks that require strong analytic abilities will call for a creative approach, explained Kevin Wo, Microsoft&#8217;s managing director for Singapore.



&#8220;I think there&#8217;s a need for them to learn about skills around design thinking,&#8221; Wo said of employees.



&#8220;Design thinking&#8221; is a term for a particular method of problem solving, which dictates that individuals should try and get into a customer&#8217;s shoes to generate practical, user-friendly solutions. That could mean creating a new technology or product, such as Apple&#8217;s iPhone. But the strategy can — and should — also be applied to other job functions, design thinking specialist Kasia Miaskiewicz told&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/make-it/">CNBC Make It</a>.



&#8220;You can apply it anywhere,&#8221; said Miaskiewicz, a director at UBS Evolve, the Swiss bank&#8217;s center for design thinking and innovation. &#8220;As long as there is a user, a recipient – and there always is – there&#8217;s always an opportunity to apply design thinking.&#8221;



Speaking at a recent careers conference in Singapore, Miaskiewicz said the strategy can be broken down into four key steps.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">What is?</h4>



First up, you need to think about the problem you are trying to solve and make sure you frame it correctly by asking the right questions, Miaskiewicz explained.



&#8220;It&#8217;s all about asking the right questions and solving for the right problems,&#8221; said Miaskiewicz, who is a director at UBS Evolve, the Swiss bank&#8217;s center for design thinking and innovation.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">What if?</h4>



Next, you should consider the potential solutions that will reduce frustrations or &#8220;key friction points&#8221; for users. Miaskiewicz said that means closely observing customers to see how you can improve their experience.



&#8220;The way you develop that part is really watching your customers. From that step a lot of ideas will start popping up,&#8221; she noted.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">What wows?</h4>



At that point several possible ideas should start coming to mind, said Miaskiewicz. Not all will be feasible, she noted, but you should try to be as open-minded as possible and avoid thinking too much about the &#8220;cannots.&#8221;



&#8220;If you start with constraints – time, cost etc. – your ideas of tomorrow will look the same as those of today,&#8221; said Miaskiewicz.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">What works?</h4>



Ultimately, Miaskiewicz said, the workable solution will be the one that ticks the boxes for three key criteria: execution, economics and customer. Put another way, the idea that is feasible for your company to create, makes sense financially and pleases the client.



You can then start experimenting with prototypes and measuring their success before creating a final product, she noted.



&#8220;Following that process really helps you get into users&#8217; shoes and create the right solutions to the most frustrating problems,&#8221; Miaskiewicz noted.



This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/skills-of-the-future-how-to-master-design-thinking.html and is republished with its permission.

Microsoft calls it a key skill of the future. Here are 4 steps to mastering it

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/cat-clifford/">By Catherine Clifford</a> 



<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=FB">Facebook</a> currently has a market capitalization of $463 billion. But what&#8217;s Facebook worth to you?



A&nbsp;<a href="http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/facebook.pdf">study released in January</a>&nbsp;found out how much people would need to be paid to deactivate their Facebook accounts for four weeks: &#8220;The median valuation was around $100 dollars a month,&#8221; Stanford economics professor,&nbsp;<a href="https://gentzkow.people.stanford.edu/">Matthew Gentzkow</a>, who co-authored the study&nbsp;<a href="https://www.recode.net/2019/2/27/18243546/facebook-study-stanford-gentzkow-wellbeing-politcal-polarization">told Recode</a>.



&#8220;But there&#8217;s a lot of spread,&#8221; said Gentzkow. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of people all the way from $0 to $100, and then a lot of people who gave really big numbers. Sort of like, &#8216;You couldn&#8217;t pay me enough to give up Facebook.&#8217;



&#8220;I can&#8217;t say conclusively, &#8216;Has Facebook proven good or bad for society?&#8217; [but] what is clear is that the people who use it value it a lot,&#8221; Gentzkow said.



The study, which was published in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w25514">National Bureau of Economic Research</a>, was authored by four professors, three from Stanford and one from New York University. For the study, researchers recruited 2,844 Facebook users and asked some of them to deactivate their Facebook account for four weeks, starting shortly after the 2018 U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 6. Some were not paid to deactivate (the control group) and other were paid.



Fifty-eight percent of study participants were willing to deactivate for less than $102.



And for the average person in the paid group, deactivating Facebook freed up to an hour per day of their time, the study says.



Being off Facebook also generally contributed to a better subjective well-being, the study found.



&#8220;Deactivation caused small but significant improvements in well-being, and in particular on self-reported happiness, life satisfaction, depression, and anxiety,&#8221; the study said.



&#8220;I was way less stressed. I wasn&#8217;t attached to my phone as much as I was before,&#8221; one study participant reported. &#8220;And I found I didn&#8217;t really care so much about things that were happening [online] because I was more focused on my own life&#8230; I felt more content. I think I was in a better mood generally. I thought I would miss seeing everyone&#8217;s day-to-day activities&#8230; I really didn&#8217;t miss it at all.&#8221;



Another said the time that had been devoted to Facebook was redistributed to offline activities: &#8220;I realized how much time I was wasting. I now have time for other things. I&#8217;ve been reading books and playing the piano which I used to do daily until the phone took over.&#8221;



For some, however, the time off of Facebook was isolating. &#8220;I was shut off from those [online] conversations, or just from being an observer of what people are doing or thinking. . . I didn&#8217;t like it at first at all, I felt very cut off from people that I like. . . I didn&#8217;t like it because I spend a lot of time by myself anyway, I&#8217;m kind of an introvert, so I use Facebook in a social aspect in a very big way,&#8221; one study participant responded.



&#8220;This is one study of many on this topic and it should be considered that way,&#8221; a Facebook spokesperson tells&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/make-it/">CNBC Make It</a>. &#8220;Our teams have been working hard on these issues. We&#8217;ve introduced several new tools so people can take greater control of their experience and made product updates to increase the number of meaningful conversations and connections people have on Facebook. We have more work to do, but we&#8217;re making steady progress.&#8221;



Those tools include controls allowing users to&nbsp;<a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/08/manage-your-time/">manage the time they spend on Facebook</a>&nbsp;and a privacy check up, which lets users to review and change the settings that determine who you share what with, the Facebook spokesperson tells CNBC Make It.



The Facebook spokesperson also pointed out some study results were positive: &#8220;Our results leave little doubt that Facebook produces large benefits for its users,&#8221; the conclusion of the study says. &#8220;Any discussion of social media&#8217;s downsides should not obscure the basic fact that it fulfills deep and widespread needs.&#8221; These comments were &#8220;encouraging,&#8221; said the spokesperson.



Benefits mentioned in the study include Facebook being a source of news and information, a source of entertainment, a tool to help organize events or groups or a social outlet for those who feel otherwise isolated. 



This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/01/stanford-nyu-study-what-youd-have-to-pay-people-to-get-off-facebook.html and is republished with its permission.

Here’s how much you’d have to pay people to deactivate Facebook for a month

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By <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/silvia-alonso-alvarez-694393">Silvia Alonso Alvarez</a>, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/international-livestock-research-institute-2924"> International Livestock Research Institute </a>; <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/isabelle-baltenweck-529850">Isabelle Baltenweck</a>, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/international-livestock-research-institute-2924"> International Livestock Research Institute </a>; <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/lora-iannotti-694346">Lora Iannotti</a>, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/washington-university-in-st-louis-732">Washington University in St Louis</a>, and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/paula-dominguez-salas-694392">Paula Dominguez-Salas</a>, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/london-school-of-hygiene-and-tropical-medicine-859">London School of Hygiene &#038; Tropical Medicine</a>



A <a href="https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/">team of 37 world-leading scientists</a> from 16 countries have just released the world’s first ever scientific eating plan. The <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31788-4/fulltext">“planetary health diet”</a> is designed to be healthier for people and more environmentally friendly. 

The team warns that the way we eat now threatens both our health and the long-term survival of the planet. They say the current food system dangerously overproduces <a href="https://ccafs.cgiar.org/bigfacts/#theme=food-emissions">greenhouse gases</a>, misuses <a href="https://ccafs.cgiar.org/bigfacts/#theme=food-emissions">fertiliser</a>, and causes large-scale <a href="https://ccafs.cgiar.org/bigfacts/#theme=food-emissions">food wastage</a> and massive <a href="https://ccafs.cgiar.org/bigfacts/#theme=food-emissions">land degradation</a>. 

Their solution is to shift to a diet that transforms this damaging food system. This diet would sustainably feed up to 10 billion people by 2050 and avert about 11 million premature adult deaths a year due to cardiovascular disease and other non-communicable diseases. 

The diet sounds like a silver bullet, but we have found it to be slightly problematic. It doesn’t recognise the enormous differences across the world when it comes to food consumption and production systems. 

It suggests we need less livestock in the world because they damage the environment and produce health-threatening foods – like meat. To most people in developed countries, livestock are the source of neatly packaged foods, readily available in the supermarket. To <a href="http://www.fao.org/3/i0680e/i0680e03.pdf">one billion</a> people in developing countries, livestock are much, much more. They are a source of much-needed livelihoods, incomes, jobs, savings, and nutrition. In some environments, fruits and vegetables may be difficult to grow, and food security depends strongly on animal-source produce. 

The report doesn’t deny any of this: it’s simply rather quiet on it. This could easily lend itself to misinterpretation and push the international development community, donors and governments to reduce investments on increasing access and affordability of animal source foods in countries where positive contributions of these products remain essential for health and life. 

<h2>A healthy diet?</h2>

The authors describe what they call a “universal healthy reference diet” as an alternative to standard current diets which they qualify as imbalanced as reliant on red meat and sugar. 

Drawing on studies, mostly conducted in middle and upper income countries, they propose a diet that consists of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and unsaturated oils – a diet that’s not very different from the so-called <a href="https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/what-is-a-mediterranean-diet/">Mediterranean diet</a>. It includes a low to moderate amount of seafood and poultry, but little to no red meat, added sugar, refined grains or starchy vegetables, and only a small amount of dairy. 

One of the issues that has provoked the <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/397606855/Two-pager-Scientific-Evidence-on-Red-Meat-and-Health">most debate</a> about the report is whether the scientific evidence base regarding what constitutes a “healthy diet” is robust enough. Most of the evidence <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2698337">it cites</a> regarding healthy diets comes from observational studies – these can’t prove a causal link between the consumption of specific products, like red meat, and health issues, like heart disease.

<h2>Needs of poor</h2>

The report also claims that its recommendations are flexible enough to be tailored to the preferences and cultures of different populations, as well as to their specific livelihoods. 

But at no point do the authors explain how the world’s less well-off – who tend to subsist on poor quality starches and who have limited access to milk, meat, eggs, fish – could follow their recommendations.

Many rural households, for example, <a href="http://www.fao.org/3/I9553EN/i9553en.pdf">have limited</a> access to markets and generally depend on rain-fed agriculture for their foods. These families consume most of their calories from staple crops such as maize or manioc, foods that lack the variety of nutrients necessary for health and well-being. Even if they produce other foods such as eggs, dairy, fish from aquaculture, or cash crops such as vegetables or fruits, they will likely sell these foods to support other needs like school fees or health care costs. And many people who live in urban areas in emerging and developing economies <a href="https://glopan.org/sites/default/files/Downloads/GlobalPanelUrbanizationPolicyBrief.pdf">face similar</a> difficulties affording a healthy diet.

Sub-Saharan Africa is mentioned a few times in the report. The report notes that because carbohydrate intake is high in many parts of the continent, 

<blockquote>
the promotion of animal source foods, including livestock products, can improve dietary quality, micronutrient intake, nutrient status and overall health. 
</blockquote>

But the report doesn’t expand on these issues and many, in Africa and Asia, need to increase rather than decrease their consumption of animal source foods.

<h2>Divisive report</h2>

Another criticism is that much of the report focuses on adult diets, yet about one in four people in the world are children less than 15 years old. As they grow and develop they have very different nutritional needs to adults. 

The report has a short section that touches on the importance of breastfeeding for infants and iron for adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women but does not fully address nutrition in these populations or in other phases of childhood. 

By touting diets low in meat or dairy, it could even be harmful as animal source foods <a href="https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/92907/RR44_may2018.pdf?sequence=5&amp;isAllowed=y">are important</a> and provide nutrients that support rapid growth and immune protection. School-age children, in particular, require zinc, iron, iodine, vitamin A, B12, among others from animal source foods for brain development and health.

The EAT-Lancet report has done an important job in bringing global attention to the question of how to sustainably feed the world’s growing population. But now it needs to take the next step and fully incorporate the perspectives of the poorer people in developing and emerging economies and of the vast emerging global middle classes.<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/112238/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" style="border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; margin: 0 !important; max-height: 1px !important; max-width: 1px !important; min-height: 1px !important; min-width: 1px !important; opacity: 0 !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0 !important; text-shadow: none !important" />

<a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/silvia-alonso-alvarez-694393">Silvia Alonso Alvarez</a>, Senior scientist &#8211; Epidemiologist, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/international-livestock-research-institute-2924"> International Livestock Research Institute </a>; <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/isabelle-baltenweck-529850">Isabelle Baltenweck</a>, Deputy Program Leader, Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/international-livestock-research-institute-2924"> International Livestock Research Institute </a>; <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/lora-iannotti-694346">Lora Iannotti</a>, Associate Professor, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/washington-university-in-st-louis-732">Washington University in St Louis</a>, and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/paula-dominguez-salas-694392">Paula Dominguez-Salas</a>, Assistant Professor of Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/london-school-of-hygiene-and-tropical-medicine-859">London School of Hygiene &#038; Tropical Medicine</a>

This article is republished from <a href="http://theconversation.com">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/first-ever-global-scientific-eating-plan-forgets-the-worlds-poor-112238">original article</a>.

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<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/karen-gilchrist/">By Karen Gilchrist</a>



As the future of work changes, it&#8217;s more important than ever for employees to make sure they have the skills required to keep up. That was the message this week from <a href="https://www.techhrconference.com/">People Matters TechHR 2019</a>, Asia&#8217;s largest human resources conference.



The remarks out of that Singapore event form part of a growing discourse around the impact technology and automation will have on the jobs landscape. It&#8217;s estimated that by 2030, 75 million to 375 million workers (3 to 14 percent of the global workforce) will need to switch occupational categories,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/jobs-lost-jobs-gained-what-the-future-of-work-will-mean-for-jobs-skills-and-wages">according to one McKinsey report</a>.



While&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/linkedin-careers-advice-how-to-get-ahead-at-work.html">research from LinkedIn</a>&nbsp;suggests that young people are more optimistic than any other generation about the shifting trends — after all,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/17/wef-machines-are-going-to-perform-more-tasks-than-humans-by-2025.html">many of those jobs are expected to be replaced by new ones</a>&nbsp;— the need to acquire new skills to keep apace with that change is undeniable.



<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/make-it/">CNBC Make It</a>&nbsp;spoke to careers experts on the ground at the conference (as well as those responsible for the technology reshaping employment methods) to find out what they believe will be most important skills for the future.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Asking &#8216;why?&#8217;</h4>



&#8220;When I think about being a millennial entering the workforce,&#8221; said Peta Latimer, partner and CEO for Singapore at global human resources firm&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=MGL-NZ">Mercer</a>, &#8220;I think the two biggest skills that we need are the ability to ask why &#8230; and then, secondly, to listen.&#8221;



The &#8220;why?&#8221; is important for questioning norms and developing new ideas, but the listening is also crucial for understanding those norms &#8220;before you start criticizing.&#8221;



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">&#8220;What I&#8217;ve found is that it&#8217;s not just a learning ability but the ability to bounce back&#8221;-Nora Abd Manaf, group chief human capital officer at Maybank</blockquote>



Nora Abd Manaf, group chief human capital officer at Southeast Asia&#8217;s Maybank, agreed that employees of the future need to work on developing their skills, but she also said it&#8217;s important to develop a future-proofed mindset.



&#8220;What I&#8217;ve found is that it&#8217;s not just a learning ability but the ability to bounce back. So when you fail, know how to pick yourself up and continue your learning process,&#8221; she said.



For Rudy Karsan, managing partner at Karlani Capital, a venture capital firm, it all comes down to one word: &#8220;Courage.&#8221;



&#8220;It is the single hardest thing for young people to have because of the amount of time they spend on the screen. You forget the difficulty it takes to really, really get to know people,&#8221; he said.



Meanwhile, Aileen Tan, group human resources officer at Singaporean telecommunications firm Singtel, who has been learning the programming language Python to future-proof her career, said the answer is threefold.



&#8220;For me, the three things are agility, curiosity, and a sense of divine discontentment,&#8221; said Tan. &#8220;Because you&#8217;ve really got to be discontented with the current to change the future.&#8221;



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Making future leaders</h4>



Once employees manage to master those skills, they can then start positioning themselves as leaders of the future, the experts agreed.



That will require drawing on some of the aforementioned skills, such as curiosity, as well as developing new ones, according to Duncan Hewett, a senior vice president of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/united-states/">U.S.</a>&nbsp;software business VMware.



&#8220;The key skill that leaders need in the future is both curiosity and a level of humbleness to reach down through the organization and tap into all the different skills,&#8221; he said.



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">&#8220;For me the most important skill is to appreciate the value of people development&#8221;-Morne Swart, Vice president, global product and transformation, SumTotal Systems</blockquote>



Morne Swart, vice president of global product strategy and transformation at U.S. software company SumTotal Systems, agreed, noting the need to value your team.



&#8220;For me the most important skill is to appreciate the value of people development in your organization,&#8221; Swart noted.



Niraj Jain, group chief finance officer at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/indonesia/">Indonesian</a>&nbsp;retailer Kanmo Group, meanwhile, said leaders of the future will need to be increasingly adaptable and willing to change what they think they know as the work landscape shifts.



&#8220;It&#8217;s very important for future leaders to unlearn what they&#8217;ve learned in the past and continue to learn something new,&#8221; explained Jain.



This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/01/hr-experts-share-the-skills-employees-will-most-need-in-the-future.html and is republished with its permission.

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Between <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=AMZN">Amazon</a> and space company Blue Origin, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/jeff-bezos/">Jeff Bezos</a> — <a href="https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:realtime">currently worth $134.5 billion according to Forbes</a> — obviously has a lot of work to do.



So Bezos has a system to organize his time.



&#8220;I try to organize my personal time so that I live mostly about 2 to 3 years out,&#8221; Bezos said at the Yale Club in New York City in February, according to a transcript from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-wings-club-presentation-transcript-2019-2">Business Insider</a>.



Bezos has enormous goals: He wants Amazon &#8220;to be Earth&#8217;s most customer-centric company,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312518121161/d456916dex991.htm">according to his 2018 annual letter</a>, and wants&nbsp;<a href="https://www.blueorigin.com/our-mission">Blue Origin</a>&nbsp;to help create a way for the solar system to support 1 trillion people (&#8220;then we&#8217;d have 1,000 Mozarts, and 1,000 Einsteins,&#8221; he said at the Yale Club).



And &#8220;vision is absolutely important,&#8221; he said. But &#8220;we&#8217;ve got to get started.&#8221;



Vision, he says, &#8220;doesn&#8217;t deserve your day-to-day attention. You need a vision, then, that&#8217;s a touchstone: It&#8217;s something you can always come back to if you ever get confused. But mostly, your time should be spent on things that are happening today, this year, maybe in the next 2 or 3 years,&#8221; Bezos said, according to the transcript.



While there may be a few goals five to seven years in the future that are on Bezos&#8217; mind, he sets his day-to-day schedule based on what he is looking to happen in two to three years.



His top leaders at Amazon also work on a similar timeframe.



&#8220;We&#8217;ll announce our Amazon quarterly results and [people will say], &#8216;Great quarter, congratulations!&#8217; And then I say, &#8216;Thank you,'&#8221; Bezos said. &#8220;But what I really think about is [how] that quarter was kind of baked and done 2 or 3 years ago, and right now the senior executives at Amazon are working on a quarter that&#8217;s going to happen in 2021, 2022.&#8221;



&#8220;I would always encourage people to hold, powerfully, a vision and be so stubborn of it. Don&#8217;t let anybody move you off of your vision,&#8221; Bezos said. &#8220;But put the vast majority of your energy and attention on things that are in a kind of 2- to 3-year timeframe.&#8221;



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<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/courtney-connley/">By Courtney Connley</a>



One of the most common pieces of career advice given to young people is to network, network, network. But if you&#8217;re following it to the letter, you might actually be wasting your time.



&#8220;We&#8217;ve all been there,&#8221; bestselling management author and CNBC contributor Suzy Welch tells&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/make-it/">CNBC Make It</a>. &#8220;You meet someone at a work-related cocktail hour, or at the end of an industry conference, and as you say goodbye, they stick a business card into your hand and you do the same.&#8221;



Though this practice is common — standard, even — Welch says that she believes this kind of networking &#8220;actually hurts your career, and you should replace it immediately with a different approach.&#8221;



&#8220;I know, &#8216;Get out there and network,&#8217; is one of the most common pieces of advice given to job-seekers and career-builders,&#8221; she says. &#8220;The idea is, you&#8217;re supposed to attend everything, make small talk with anyone who&#8217;s got a pulse, and, yep, plant a card into as many palms as possible.&#8221;



But Welch urges job-seekers to consider how often they&#8217;ve actually gained a trusted contact or a promising lead this way. Probably not often — if ever. That&#8217;s because &#8220;human beings help friends, not &#8216;contacts.'&#8221;



Ignore the idea that you have to meet and connect with everyone. Instead, &#8220;focus your energy on forging authentic business relationships.&#8221;



&#8220;They may be fewer in number,&#8221; she says, &#8220;but they are far more effective.&#8221; While this more focused approach may sound risky, the &#8220;commitment, structure and discipline&#8221; it requires pays off.



&#8220;I have a friend who started a PR business from scratch,&#8221; she says. &#8220;At the outset, she scheduled three business lunches a week. But prospecting for leads wasn&#8217;t the only thing on the menu. My friend asked about people&#8217;s career dreams and talked a lot about the Philadelphia Eagles. If someone had a cold, she checked in on them a few days later.&#8221;



Now, Welch says, that same friend&#8217;s business is nine years old and bringing in over $5 million in revenue &#8220;because she played the long game.&#8221;



&#8220;Giving a card or getting a card — that&#8217;s just not how anything of substance gets done,&#8221; explains Welch. &#8220;Don&#8217;t bother. Don&#8217;t network. Make friends instead.&#8221;



Suzy Welch is the co-founder of the <a href="http://jwmi.com/?mcv=jdg469">Jack Welch Management Institute</a>and a noted business journalist, TV commentator and public speaker. Think you need Suzy to fix your career? Email her at gettowork@cnbc.com.



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