Advanced societies rely on a complex quality and compliance system to ensure proper functioning of the market, protect people’s health and safety and preserve the environment. This system is commonly defined as a national quality infrastructure (NQI) and refers to all aspects of metrology, standardization, testing, quality management, certification and accreditation that have a bearing on conformity assessment.
About a decade ago, Google launched an initiative to determine what makes the perfect team.
“Code-named Project Aristotle—a tribute to Aristotle’s quote, ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,’” according to re:Work, the initiative studied 180 teams company-wide to determine why some succeeded and others floundered.
It wasn’t easy. A data-driven company to its core, Google researchers initially struggled to find connections between the teams that were thriving. Some of the best teams were full of friends who saw one another outside of work; others, The New York Times reported, “were made up of people who were basically strangers away from the conference room.”
LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - Banks working to develop global standards on accounting for carbon emissions in bond or stock sale underwriting have voted to exclude most of these emissions from their own carbon footprint, three people familiar with the matter said.
The majority of banks comprising an industry working group backed a plan earlier this month to exclude two-thirds of the emissions linked to their capital markets businesses from being attributed to them in carbon accounting, the sources said, following months of discord over the issue.
A study of more than 100 years of infrastructure megaprojects reveals a consistent pattern of challenges at their core.
by Daniel Akst
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner, Currency, 2023
“There are three kinds of lies,” the old saying goes. “Lies, damned lies, and cost projections for big projects.”
There are a staggering 1.8 billion Gmail active users, according to the latest statistics. Regarding Google Photos, there are an estimated 2 billion active users. Google has recently warned that starting in December, inactive accounts will be purged on security grounds. But how does Google define an inactive account, and how can you prevent emails, photos, and other content from being deleted?
Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson is probably best known for her work on psychological safety in the workplace. She has authored a number of books, including the forthcoming Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well, and she spoke with HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius about the right–and wrong–ways to fail. Experimentation and risk-taking are crucial for an organization’s success, but failing twice in the same way is probably a mistake.
No concelho de Alcácer do Sal já foi considerada a mais bonita aldeia alentejana. Terá sido o primeiro local onde as casas começaram a ser pintadas com uma faixa azul. Perca-se entre o casario singelo, leal ao traço desta região. Renda-se à tranquilidade, explore a albufeira do Pego do Altar e prove o receituário local, inspirado por terra, rio e mar.
Erguido em ruas desenhadas a régua e esquadro, a origem deste lugar, no concelho de Alcácer do Sal, está associada aos trabalhadores agrícolas que, no século XX, aqui fixaram residência com as respetivas famílias. Dizem os antigos que este terá sido o primeiro local da região onde as casas caiadas de branco ganharam contorno azul.
É um percurso com cerca de 20 quilómetros que passa por quatro dos locais mais emblemáticos do concelho.
A aldeia de Sistelo é a “mais bela paisagem que cabe nas imaginações”. Quem o disse foi José Saramago, o único vencedor português do prémio Nobel da Literatura, que se inspirou nas viagens que fez pelo País para escrever a obra “Viagem a Portugal”, onde deixou registado os dias felizes que passou em Arcos de Valdevez. Agora, todos podem percorrer os mesmos caminhos do escritor.
No âmbito das celebrações do centenário de nascimento de José Saramago, o município lançou o roteiro literário “Os percursos de Saramago em Arcos de Valdevez. Como o próprio nome diz, tem como mote a passagem do escritor pelo concelho narrada no livro “Viagem a Portugal”, publicado em 1981.