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CURT NICKISCH: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Curt Nickisch. We have a complicated relationship with productivity. Businesses like to look at outputs, revenue goals, outbound calls, completed projects, maybe it’s lines of code written or the promotions won by your team members, but you have your own goals too, and […]
Norman Crockatt is not a well-known name, but the British intelligence officer was responsible for one of the most controversial decisions of World War II. When the War Office in London created Military Intelligence Section 9 (MI9) on December 23, 1939, it chose the 45-year-old Crockatt to head the new organization. The former head of […]
The first episode of You Must Remember This tells the story of actress Kim Novak — a top box office draw of the late 1950s and the iconic star of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo — and her painful struggles to assert herself from the mid-20th century through well into the 21st, in a Hollywood that repeatedly sent her […]
Get Permission Home Camera Select photo Send result Install Support API 21 and above Step 1. Add it in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories: maven { url ‘https://jitpack.io’ } Step 2. Add the dependency implementation ‘com.github.AlfredoHdez1709:EasyCameraAndGallery:{version}’ Basic implementation Generate call result from an activity returns a list with paths of captured or […]
Recruiting and hiring call center employees can be a pain, but it doesn’t have to be so bad. For example, depending on the roles you’re looking to hire, you may not even have to write a job description—because you can just use ours instead. Below, we’ve put together four of the most common job descriptions […]
Simple Camera is a library that allows you to use cameras in a simplified, easy, fast and effective way. It contains CameraX as an internal library. It simplifies the camera features used by CameraX and provides ease of use with a single library. As updates come on the CameraX side, the library will try to […]
Electronic voices have been destined to answer phone calls ever since Bell Labs invented the Voder machine at the tail-end of the 1930s. These days, everybody and their mother has been greeted by an IVR (interactive voice response) phone system to walk them through a customer service calling menu in one way or another. In […]
It’s nearly ten years since I started my Book of the month slot on this blog, after having been blown away by an Italian writer who has since taken the English-speaking world by storm. In another six years, I will have featured more Books of the month than the 197 titles that comprised my original […]
How would you like to play your BEST tennis in the BIGGEST moments instead of crumbling under pressure? That’s exactly what you’re going to learn how to do as I deconstruct the recent video by Karue Sell from MyTennisHQ. He had an incredible result in a set against Taylor Fritz, the current world #12, and […]
Protein-packed and perfect for spring, this asparagus French green lentil salad makes a lovely side dish, main course, or spring potluck dish, ideal for Easter gatherings. If you are looking for another salad option for Spring or for Easter dinner — check out my Warm Spring Salad. Roasted Potato and Asparagus Lentil Salad with Tangy […]