ABC/Eric McCandless “Roseanne” spin-off “The Conners” premieres on ABC Tuesday at 8 p.m. without Roseanne Barr. The premiere significantly addresses Roseanne’s absence after her show revival was canceled at the end of May. While the show makes a solid case for itself without Barr, the show is “unavoidably awkward” without its lead matriarch. “Going from […]
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European universal banks can succeed. But can Deutsche Bank?
AFTER just 18 days as Deutsche Bank’s chief executive, Christian Sewing had two tasks to perform on April 26th. The easy one, inherited from his ousted predecessor, John Cryan, was to report predictably glum first-quarter results. Net profit dropped by 79%, year on year, to only €120m ($ 147m). Harder was indicating where he might […]
China can succeed with petro-yuan where Gaddafi failed – killing the US dollar in oil trade
Muammar Gaddafi wanted to shatter the dominance of the greenback in the Middle East by introducing gold-backed dinar, but failed. China has a chance to finish what he started, one industry expert has told RT. “Ideas related to oil trade in currencies other than the dollar arose more than once. Some of them were severely […]
US ‘would not succeed’ if it tries to divide EU on trade, Germany warns
Washington won’t succeed if it tries to drive a wedge in the European Union with import tariffs, the new German economy minister, Peter Altmaier, has said during a visit to the US. Should Europe and the US plunge into a trade war, producers and consumers on both sides would pay the price, the minister warned. […]
SAS hero who is helping pupils succeed
JONATHANBUCKMASTER Floyd Woodrow pictured in the classroom with students at Pewsey Vale School But rather than seeing the break from usual lessons as an excuse to switch off or mess around, every one of them is listening raptly. In front of each are hand-drawn maps showing their individual goals and ambitions, with targets, strategies and […]
There’s a huge difference between Janet Yellen and Trump’s pick to succeed her — and it helps explain how he landed the job
Thomson Reuters Fed nominee Jerome Powell appears to favor lighter-touch regulation of the financial sector. This probably endearing him to Donald Trump, who ran for president with chants of repealing the post-crisis Dodd-Frank reforms. Powell’s statement that banks are no longer ‘too big to fail’ contradicts the view of many of his own fellow regulators […]
9 types of people who never succeed at work
mujitra/Flickr Emotional intelligence is important at work. The lack of emotional intelligence takes different forms in people. From the coward to the shortchanged to the victim to the apologizer, study these personality types to avoid becoming one of them. LinkedIn Influencer Travis Bradberry originally published this post on LinkedIn. Experience and knowledge are rapidly losing […]
Austin and St. Louis startups show you don’t need the coasts to succeed
GUEST: Tech entrepreneurs are the cool kids on the block. Whereas young people once aspired to be rockstars or astronauts, today they dream of being startup founders, flush with venture capital and working out of sleek, open-plan offices in San Francisco’s trendy SoMa district or New York’s bustling Flatiron neighborhood. Every year, countless founders make […]
Who Will Succeed Vladimir Putin? You Decide
We’ve spent the week looking at possible contenders to the presidency if there’s a sudden leadership vacuum in Russia. Here’s a look back at the prime contenders, as well as your chance to weigh in on who’s next atop the Kremlin. The Old Guard Nikolai Patrushev: The hard-liner former Putin colleague in the KGB spits […]
If You Follow These 2 Rules to Make Decisions, You’re More Likely to Succeed in Life
It’s estimated that we make about 35,000 decisions every day.[1] These decisions include: what to wear, what to eat, and what to say. In the latter case, you’re likely to have to decide thousands of times a day on what you are going to say to others. This could range from ordering your morning latte […]