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How to Overcome Your Terror of Making an Off-the-Cuff Speech
Would you get nervous if asked to deliver an impromptu talk at a meeting? Here are strategies to focus your fears and get your act together.
The boss turns to you in a meeting and asks: What do you think? Or asks you to deliver spontaneous remarks or make a toast at an office gathering. Do you freeze on the spot? Ramble endlessly? Break into a nervous sweat?
Impromptu pitches, toasts and talks far outnumber planned presentations in the workplace. Such challenges strike terror in the hearts of one in four Americans, making them more daunting than snakes, stalkers or spiders, according to Chapman University’s annual fear survey.
New research offers strategies for controlling anxiety over public speaking and turning it to your advantage. It’s a skill experts say can be mastered with a little emotional intelligence, and some practice structuring your responses in clear, simple ways.
Tips for becoming a confident public speaker:
* Assume you’ll be asked to speak and always be ready.
* Have in mind a simple three-part structure for your response.
* Practice answering questions in informal settings, such as around the dinner table.
* Be aware of your body language under stress and avoid misleading tells.
* Treat your anxiety as a normal response and tell yourself: I’m excited.
* Focus on what listeners want and need to know, rather than on yourself.
* Speak in a conversational tone and avoid rushing.
* Strive to convey information and meaning rather than to perform perfectly.
* Ask trusted colleagues or mentors for feedback on how to improve.
Mr. Abrahams recommends using a three-part framework for structuring off-the-cuff remarks. Three steps are easy to remember and can help get your points across without rambling. One approach is to state the problem, describe the solution and summarize the benefits, he says. Another is to use a “what, so what, now what?” mental road map—stating the issue or topic, explaining why it matters and laying out next steps.
(인용: Sue Shellenbarger, 월스트리트저널)
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China Has a Secret Weapon in the Race to Dominate Electric Cars
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Over the past two years, cobalt has emerged as one of the hottest commodities of the electric-vehicle revolution. The silvery-blue metal, an important component in lithium-ion batteries, has more than doubled in price, making carmakers and tech giants fret about securing their future needs.
The focus on the metal has turned a spotlight on the obscure supply chain that takes cobalt produced in mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Canada or Morocco, and ultimately delivers cobalt-containing batteries to companies from Samsung Electronics Co. to Volkswagen AG. That supply chain is dominated by Chinese companies.
Many of the leading companies that mine cobalt, such as Glencore Plc and Vale SA, are well known. So too, at the other end of the spectrum, are the tech companies and carmakers that buy batteries.
In between them sit companies that refine cobalt ore to make chemicals like cobalt sulphate; companies that combine these chemicals with other metals like nickel and manganese to make the cathode element of a lithium-ion battery; and companies that assemble the cathodes with the other components to make battery cells, and ultimately batteries.
Cobalt Origins
More than two-thirds of cobalt mined in 2017 came from the Congo
Eight of the 14 largest cobalt miners in Congo are now Chinese-owned, accounting for almost half of the country’s output.
After the cobalt has been mined, it is sold–sometimes via traders–to refiners. They produce cobalt metal and powder, which are mostly used to make superalloys used in jet engines, or chemicals like cobalt sulphate, which are used to make batteries.
China is even more dominant in the production of cobalt chemicals needed to make batteries than Congo is in cobalt mining. According to data from Darton Commodities Ltd., China accounts for more than 80 percent of the production of cobalt chemicals.
In the next stage of processing, the cobalt chemicals are put together with other metals, such as manganese or aluminum, to make cathodes—the positively charged part of a battery.
There’s a wide range of different chemical makeups of lithium-ion batteries. Not all of them use cobalt, but many of the most popular do. Following the surge in cobalt prices, most batterymakers are researching ways to reduce the proportion of cobalt in their batteries.
Currently in the ascendancy in the electric-vehicle industry are nickel—manganese—cobalt oxide (NMC) batteries, used in most electric cars, and 57 percent of the production capacity for this type of cathode is in China. Tesla Inc., however, uses nickel—cobalt—aluminium oxide (NCA) batteries, which have a lower proportion of cobalt. Cathodes of this type are largely made in Japan. The consumer electronics industry largely uses lithium—cobalt—oxide (LCO) batteries, which contain the highest proportion of cobalt.
Finally, the cathodes are brought together with the other components of a battery to make battery cells and then whole batteries in so-called “megafactories.”
After Tesla pioneered the concept of a gigafactory in Nevada, there are now dozens of similar plants springing up across China. Chinese companies, like Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., are rapidly expanding. “We are going to increasingly see a lot of battery manufacturing migrating to China because the materials involved in manufacturing it are so readily available,” says Heppel.
“There’s not going to be enough cobalt for everyone to avoid China,” says Heppel. “No matter how clever people try to be, there’s always going to be more readily available materials in China, which gives them a significant advantage.”
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인용: Jack Farchy and Hayley Warren, 부름버그
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What It Takes to Make Instagram Influencing a Full-Time Career. My job is to make it look effortless, to look like it’s the most fun ever and it’s never a job. But it is a job
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/what-it-takes-to-make-instagram-influencing-a-full-time-career?srnd=premium-asia
Young promotes a variety of products and destinations related to mountaineering (see the sponsored post above for one example). The process starts with landing sponsorship deals. Companies do reach out with unsolicited offers, Young says, but she turns down the majority of those. Many such offers have nothing to do with the outdoor adventures she posts about—hiking boots would be relevant but makeup would not—and others are from companies that are direct competitors with her biggest sponsors, with whom she has relationships she doesn’t want to risk.
That means she spends days or even weeks researching potential clients’ planned marketing campaigns and then tailoring the proposals she sends out to match their needs. She estimates that about 70 percent of the pitches she sends to potential partners end in rejection.
And the work is still unfinished even after she’s done taking the photos. When Young returns from her adventures, she carefully edits the images and drafts captions to go along with them. Then, once the posts are public, businesses sometimes don’t pay on time. That’s when she needs to follow up and send new invoices with a late fee tacked on. Her least favorite hurdle is when she discovers that a company used her photos in a way that violates the terms of the contract, leading to tense and time-consuming email exchanges.