Business

The six-episode series will feature brand integrations with advertisers, including Wayfair, eos, and Michaels.Read More

For years, the tech industry equated success with scale. Bigger stages, larger crowds, more logos, more panels, more noise. Five thousand people became ten thousand. Ten thousand became the goal. Somewhere along the way, that stopped making sense. Founders and executives didn’t announce a boycott. They simply stopped showing up. What we see today is not a rejection of events, but a correction in how people who actually run companies choose to spend their time. The shift is subtle, but consistent. Fewer large conferences. More small, curated gatherings. More closed rooms. More dinners. More tables of twelve. Big tech events…

This story continues at The Next WebRead More

Superintelligence isn’t cheap. Tech giants are learning that AI’s promise comes with a physical, financial, and operational reckoning.Read More

‘Question Everything But Yourself’ wants to inspire self-belief in an AI world.Read More

Do you feel like your investment in AI tools isn’t yielding the organizational productivity gains you expected? Are you struggling to move beyond individual experimentation to see a real transformation in how your entire team works? In this article, you’ll discover a human-first framework for AI adoption that addresses psychological biases, identifies specialized user mindsets, […]

The post Human-First AI Adoption: Getting Your People Ready for Change appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

Read More

Consider the role of status in just about all human interactions.

It begins at a primal level–every species cares about access to food and resources. We share a prehistoric history of status based on strength. But civilization is about awarding status on something other than violence.

So there is the status that comes from being the breadwinner, the hunter, the matriarch.

Or the status that comes with age and experience.

We award status to spiritual leaders, peacemakers and selfless warriors.

And to beauty.

Status might be passed down through families. It could be formalized with Dukes and Empresses and other peerages (an ironic term, of course).

Lately, only in the last few hundred years, have we awarded status based on commerce. That people with access to money get a better seat, and the benefit of the doubt. And celebrity, a status that’s not possible without some sort of media to create that celebrity.

Like most things associated with media or with money, these two accelerated very quickly. Being famous for having a lot of money is a double sort of status, a benefit of the doubt based on sometimes unexamined foundations.

Not only are people trained to seek status, we’re driven to repeat the yearning we feel even after it’s acquired. The reason that more than enough isn’t enough for many is that status and the search for status can be infinite.

The adjudication of status roles is a critical role for anyone who works in culture or even in commerce. We award status without thinking about it, when awarding it is actually a critical part of our work and our future.

Awarding status isn’t new. It’s that we’ve forgotten we’re doing it, and why. Every interaction is a small negotiation about who matters more in this moment. Understanding that doesn’t make the system fair, but it does give us a choice about whether to reinforce it or to build something else.

Read More

Consider beginning the new year by subscribing to purple.space. It’s a private online discussion group that I started several years ago.

A practice keeps a promise. A community of people who support, respect and encourage each other makes it far more likely we’ll find our way forward.

Purple Space is a worldwide community of creators, leaders and the curious. There’s no hype, no selling, no dark patterns. Instead, a few hundred people come together on a daily basis to share and support their work.

Or perhaps build your own circle of support. Accountability, inspiration and commitment. We each have the tools to find our cohort.

Here’s to possibility. Find some people and build something great.

Read More

TBPN’s newest sponsors include the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Shopify, Plaid, CrowdStrike, AppLovin, and others.Read More

The longtime advertising executive was 77 years old.Read More

The news networks provided continuous coverage throughout the weekend.Read More