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Data analysis of a 12-year longitudinal study examining the importance of personality changes during young adulthood indicates personality growth has real-world career benefits. Kevin Hoff, assistant professor of industrial-organizational psychology at the University of Houston, found young people who develop higher levels of conscientiousness and emotional stability during the transition to employment tend to be more successful in some aspects of their early careers. The study findings are published in Psychological Science.

“Results revealed that certain patterns of personality growth predicted career outcomes over and above adolescent personality and ability,” reports Hoff, adding that the findings support potential policy actions meant to help young people develop personality-based skills.

Hoff’s study is the first to assess the predictive power of personality changes for a broad range of career outcomes across more than a decade of young adulthood.

For adolescents who have experienced difficulties or are dissatisfied with aspects of their

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Learn From Failure, Not Just From Success

[email protected]_84 December 3, 2020

By Johnny Wood

Mario Gaia is the founder and honorary chairman of Turboden, an MHI Group company.

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When it comes to offering lessons on navigating a fulfilling career in engineering, Mario Gaia has no shortage of rich material to draw on. He’s worked for more than a half century in energy, as an engineer, innovator, entrepreneur and businessman.

Gaia, the founder and honorary chairman of MHI Group company Turboden, started out on the research team of Professor Gianfranco Angelino at Politecnico di Milano, investigating Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) thermodynamics and design. ORC systems generate electric and thermal power from multiple sources, including renewables, traditional fuels and waste heat from industrial processes, waste incinerators, engines or gas turbines, making them an important and versatile technology in decarbonization.

Enthusiastic about the impact the technology could have, Gaia went on to found Turboden in 1980, which became part of MHI Group in

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Deloitte Fast 500: CEOs of Seattle’s fastest growing companies share their secrets of success

[email protected]_84 December 3, 2020

Innovation is more critical now than ever. It is not simply a matter of the latest technology or trend but rather about solving human problems, of which there’s no shortage these days. From income inequality to COVID-19 to social injustice, this is indeed a time of disruption, the perfect theater for innovative ideas and solutions to take center stage.

Our region has a long history of innovation. The first backpack, online bookstore, kidney dialysis machines, vinyl records, and only one of two states to pass board diversity legislation: these are just a few innovations that the Pacific Northwest region has pioneered over many years.

It is perhaps due to this rich tradition of combined technological innovation and social progress that makes the future of the Pacific Northwest even more promising. Emerging growth companies, a bright spot in our economy, are popping up by the dozens and remain a driving force

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Ian’s Tech Travels: This royal take on fintech will reframe your definition of success

[email protected]_84 November 30, 2020

Technology seems like the winner right now. The Nasdaq 100, an index of 100 US tech giants, bears this out. Having started the year just shy of 9,000, it currently sits slightly north of 12,000.

But there are also counterarguments that we are in a technology bubble. With this in mind, I want to look at the growth of fintech-investing specifically, and for this I bring in Augmentum Fintech investment trust manager.

More no than yes

Tim Levene (pictured) has more than a decade of experience in technology and venture capital, and for several years worked as an adviser for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s Royal Foundation on digital strategy and innovation. Augmentum’s Fintech trust was the first publicly listed fintech fund in Europe.

Levene is seeking typical annual returns of 20% across the trust. Of the more than 2,000 companies to have pitched to Augmentum, only 17 sit

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Conscientiousness key to team success during space missions

[email protected]_84 November 25, 2020

NASA is working toward sending humans to Mars by 2030. If all goes according to plan, the flight crew’s return trip to the red planet will take about two-and-half years. That’s a long time to spend uninterrupted with co-workers. But imagine if the astronauts don’t get along with each other.

To ensure that doesn’t happen, a new study led by Western University tested team dynamics of five astronauts during an analog Mars mission staged by the Austrian Space Forum in 2018 in Oman, a country that shares borders with Yemen, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

The study found that conscientiousness is a key requirement for a crew to achieve its extraterrestrial tasks, outdistancing other potential traits like honesty, humility, emotionality, extraversion, openness and agreeableness.

“Conscientiousness, an individual personality trait, can be thought of as a pooled team

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China calls launch a success as robotic spacecraft heads to moon

[email protected]_84 November 24, 2020

WENCHANG, China (Reuters) – China hailed as a success its pre-dawn launch on Tuesday of a robotic spacecraft to bring back rocks from the moon in the first bid by any country to retrieve lunar surface samples since the 1970s, a mission underscoring Chinese ambitions in space.

The Long March-5 Y5 rocket, carrying the Chang’e-5 lunar probe, takes off from Wenchang Space Launch Center, in Wenchang, Hainan province, China November 24, 2020. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

The Long March-5, China’s largest carrier rocket, blasted off at 4:30 a.m. Beijing time (2030 GMT on Monday) in a launch from Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern Chinese island of Hainan carrying the Chang’e-5 spacecraft.

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) called the launch a success and said in a statement that the rocket flew for nearly 37 minutes before sending the spacecraft on its intended trajectory.

The Chang’e-5 mission, named after the ancient

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Success of Pfizer, Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines ushers in ‘new era’

[email protected]_84 November 23, 2020

Pfizer and Moderna have both announced promising results in the phase 3 trials of their COVID-19 vaccines. Here’s how they differ.

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The success of two COVID-19 candidate vaccines marks a turning point in the long history of vaccines and could lead to major advances against a variety of diseases.

Vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are more than 95% effective against COVID-19, trials show. Both depend on a technology never before used in a commercial vaccine that could upend the way future ones are made.

This new messenger RNA technology, as well another method that depends on viruses to deliver vaccines, are transforming the field, said Brendan Wren, a professor of vaccinology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

“It could be quite a new era for vaccines and vaccinology,” he said. “We seemed to move ahead in this one year 10 years.”

These technologies had

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Read his own words on how Amazon embraced failure to drive innovation and success

[email protected]_84 November 22, 2020

Jeff Bezos wearing a suit and tie: Failure pays off if you want to figure out what customers really want, writes Bezos. John Locher/AP

The following is an excerpt from the new book, “Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos,” a collection of writings and public statements by Jeff Bezos, with an introduction by journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson.
Bezos shares how a customer-first mentality allowed Amazon to flourish and bounce back from financial failures.
From the early beginnings of Prime to failed initiatives, Bezos explains why differentiating between experimental and operational failures lifted his ecommerce site to new heights of innovation and change.
“If we build a new fulfillment center and it’s a disaster, that’s just bad execution. That’s not good failure,” Bezos said. “But when we are developing a new product or service or experimenting in some way, and it doesn’t work, that’s okay. That’s great failure.”
The excerpt is

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Airbnb IPO Prospectus Says Future Success Means Adapting to Cryptocurrencies

[email protected]_84 November 20, 2020

The giant online rental marketplace based in San Francisco, Airbnb is considering supporting cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. The news stems from the company’s initial public offering (IPO) prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Airbnb’s filing notes that future success will be dependent on adapting to new technologies such as tokenization and cryptocurrencies.

The travel industry has been one of the hardest-hit sectors in the economy after the coronavirus outbreak shook the world. In a recent filing with the SEC, Airbnb has filed a prospectus on November 16 seeking a $1 billion initial public offering (IPO) in the United States.
Within the pages of the Airbnb prospectus, the company mentions considering technologies like blockchain, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence (AI), and the “ability to integrate new or emerging payment methods.”
In 2014, Airbnb representative Brian Chesky asked his followers on Twitter if Airbnb should accept bitcoin. A great number of

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Astronomers’ success: Seven new cosmic masers

[email protected]_84 November 20, 2020

A group of astronomers from Toruń in Poland have successfully completed a survey of the Milky Way plane. They searched for gas clouds, where there was a maser reinforcement of the OH molecule. They saw seven new sources – each of them brings scientists closer to the process by which massive stars are born. “It is like listening to the buzzing of a mosquito during a loud concert,” backstage observations are recapitulated by Prof. Anna Bartkiewicz.

The success of the Toruń-based group of astronomers is described in the prestigious Astronomy and Astrophysics. The article “A search for the OH 6035 MHz line in high-mass star-forming regions,” prepared by Prof. dr. habil. Marian Szymczak, dr. Paweł Wolak, dr. habil. Anna Bartkiewicz, NCU Prof. from the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics and doctoral students: Michał Durjasz and

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Making personality changes can sometimes promote success — ScienceDaily

Learn From Failure, Not Just From Success

Ian’s Tech Travels: This royal take on fintech will reframe your definition of success

More no than yes

Conscientiousness key to team success during space missions

China calls launch a success as robotic spacecraft heads to moon

Success of Pfizer, Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines ushers in ‘new era’

Read his own words on how Amazon embraced failure to drive innovation and success

Airbnb IPO Prospectus Says Future Success Means Adapting to Cryptocurrencies

Astronomers’ success: Seven new cosmic masers