TED: Shih Chieh Huang: Sculptures that’d be at home in the deep sea - Shih Chieh Huang (2014)

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When he was young, artist Shih Chieh Huang loved taking toys apart and perusing the aisles of night markets in Taiwan for unexpected objects. Today, this TED Fellow creates madcap sculptures that seem to have a life of their own—with eyes that blink, tentacles that unfurl and parts that light up like bioluminescent sea creatures.

In Conflict Resolution, Fairness Concerns Loom Large

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On June 30, compensation expert Kenneth R. Feinberg unveiled a plan to give restitution to victims of accidents related to the fatal ignition flaw in 2.6 million General Motors vehicles. The plan—designed to be as generous as other compensation plans Feinberg has overseen, including payouts to victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings—is part of GM’s efforts to restore public trust and reduce the number of costly lawsuits it could face, Hilary Stout reports in the New York Times. GM had faced heavy criticism for failing to disclose the defect for more than a decade.

The NEW TRUTH about closing the sale.

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Every salesperson is looking for the fastest way, the best way, and the easiest way to “close” a sale. 
More than human nature, for salespeople, closing the sale is both a desire and a need. And the results are totally measurable. Either you win, or you lose. There is no second place in sales.
Many people think that “closing the sale” is the fulcrum point of the process. All of those people are wrong. Closing the sale begins when the sales presentation begins. 
A sale is not “closed.” A sale is earned.

Gameover’s back from the dead? Why law enforcement couldn’t kill it

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In June, law enforcement in the U.S. knocked out the command and control servers of the Gameover malware that compromised thousands of PCs all around the world. Gameover, developed by hackers using source code from the Zeus family, was particularly effective at spreading the Cryptolocker ransomware that infected so many people in the U.S. and UK last fall and held their files to ransom.

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