Annual performance review looming? How to give and receive feedback

Oct 21, 2016 14:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Feedback is a daily occurrence. Workers get it constantly from their managers and colleagues, and how we react to it can have implications for job performance and career success. Staff at companies around the world will...

AI Revolution Series

Is social media turning people into narcissists?

Oct 21, 2016 14:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Social media has revolutionised how we communicate. In this series, we look at how it has changed the media, politics, health, education and the law. There has been a massive increase in the use of social media from...

ECB stays pat, allays fears of abrupt tapering of asset purchases

Oct 21, 2016 12:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks

The European Central Bank left ultra-loose monetary policy unchanged on Thursday and maintained its monthly QE purchases of EUR80bn. The central bank kept the door open to more stimulus in December, firmly shooting down...

How decent data can help African girls overcome second class status

Oct 21, 2016 10:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Life

The United Nations has made the gathering of data on girls across the world the coming years focus. Marking the International Day of the Girl Child, it issued a call for action for increased investment in collecting and...

Climate Change Series

Bolivia's fast-melting glaciers are leaving behind lakes that could cause catastrophic floods

Oct 21, 2016 09:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Bolivias glaciers have shrunk by more than 40% in the past few decades. This puts further pressure on an already stressed water supply, while the meltwater lakes left behind risk collapsing in sudden and catastrophic...

Global Geopolitics Series

Special forces should be at the heart of Britain's military planning

Oct 21, 2016 09:52 am UTC| Insights & Views

What sort of military does the UK need to deal with a rapidly changing set of potential threats? Conventional military thinking still holds that the UK needs to retain what the Americans would describe as full-spectrum...

Global Geopolitics Series

How NatWest bank became a player in the new propaganda war between Russia and the West

Oct 20, 2016 12:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views

The recent decision of the National Westminster Bank to freeze the UK accounts of Russian international broadcaster RT sparked a furious row, with talk of Kremlin disinformation pitted against accusations of British...