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Who do you socialise with in Europe?! I’m a dual national and regularly spend time in 3 European cities and 8+ US cities. To be honest, it’s the US that’s devoid of culture and Eur…

Making someone feel seen and heard is a skill…if one doesn’t have that in their family or friendship group then that is a real shame. I believe that nuance was missed in your analo…

What drives it? Wealth retention to keep it in the family?

Where do you live? Country?

Yes but if you are management and you have been wanting to make changes and cut the fat, it was previously difficult to do layoffs without extensive negative coverage. Now you can …

You could try: - You get back 10x on your initial investment ($1.5m) before anyone else gets paid when you sell the company. In the form of preferred shares. - After that equity sp…

>> “Comments by Home Depot Inc. co-founder Bernie Marcus that “nobody works, nobody gives a damn,”” Corporates have been squeezing employee who give a damn…with little in the way o…

First company I worked for, I worked hard and was rated star of project out of 40 people…I was training people on a super technical project who had 10-15 years of more experience t…

Doesn’t necessarily apply to every industry… sure to a growing sector like software then maybe yes. In other parts of the economy, teams can have fixed sizes and budgets. This mean…

Look at your pension….in the UK, if you’re in the 40% tax bracket and with the tax relief, you’ll get an instant return on your money of 67%…the downside is the lock in.

I read somewhere that some scammers do this deliberately to filter for easier targets.

More like 6 years is the standard US investment term on a 10 fund life with 2x 1-year extensions taking it to 12. Investment term can end early if they raise a new fund but need to…

Because zero is too close to negative which freaks people out with bad headlines...

Please enlighten me and point to where in this article it makes it a women problem… feels like they are highlighting a men’s issue… The article feel like it is trying to lay out fa…

I do not understand your response...not sure the article was insinuating any of the above...

Just get another job....poorly treated...unlikely to materially improve... If you are a contractor, then you can decide your bill rate and hours. If you are asked to work extra say…

I am middle management....a big part of my job is understanding my juniors needs and enabling them to do their jumps by promoting their cause with the leadership. Secondly I lead t…

Instead of focusing 100% on yourself, you need to get out of your own head. Go help others. Volunteer. Use your time.

It isn’t that black and white…to look at it in that light is reductionist. Further equality is good however it would be helpful to do so in a constructive manner. What often happen…

Yes some spiral in free fall into poverty…

This refers to defined benefit persons not defined contribution pension. These pensions were overly generous…

Yeah I see where you are coming from. I do not necessarily want us to be 100% consistent...just an honest conversation about how arbitary we are!!

Sexism and racism....are huge areas of concern...whereas tall men and good looking people are treated much better than short men and ugly people...our morality, in the West, is inc…

Take a vacation Try to move internally saying that you need a new challenge