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Oct 30, 2026 - Lifestyle

Ginni Field has spent more than four decades in leadership and more than three decades working as a coach. Since 1990, she has worked as a real estate coach, life coach, and mentor, and over that time she has coached business owners, executives, managers, entrepreneurs, and real estate professionals. Her work centers on helping leaders […] The post Ginni Field Builds a Team Around Four Decades of Leadership appeared first on Grit Daily News.

Oct 29, 2026 - Lifestyle

Using AI for roles from executive assistants to chiefs of staff, companies are boasting about doing more with less, creating tension with their human workersOn an average workday, Dhruv Amin chats with dozens of colleagues to get things done at his AI startup Anything. He might ask Gwen, his executive assistant, to schedule a meeting, then troubleshoot a technical problem with Cody, his coding partner. Then he might check in with Betsy for search engine optimization, or Juno for onboarding customers. If the office runs out of snacks, he sends a Slack message to Justin, the office manager charged with stocking the kitchen.But none of these co-workers are people. They’re artificial intelligence agents, software that handles tasks without human intervention. Anything is one of several startups building them, and betting on a future where workplaces will increasingly turn over their sales, marketing, coding and other tasks to semi-autonomous AI. At Anything, there are 15 human employees and roughly 150 agents – a ratio that Amin believes will soon be the norm. Continue reading...

Oct 29, 2026 - Lifestyle

A historical adventure deep in the very heart of pasta country in southern Italy unexpectedly unearths a sauce with roots in SenegalAbout 30 kilometres south of Naples, the town of Gragnano is surrounded by the Monti Lattari mountain range – the limestone backbone of the Sorrento peninsula. Historically, a series of natural springs fed into a larger stream called Vernotico, which flowed down the mountainside, passing through what was at the time the small village of Gragnano.The natural slope of the terrain was fortuitous, because it allowed for the construction of a sequence of mills, which started in around 1263. During a visit to Gragnano last month, local historian Giuseppe Di Massa explained how it all worked; how gravity drove the flow of water from one mill to the next, in order to power vertical millstones – a system created for the inconsistent flow. The valley, with its clever water system, became known as the valley of the mills; its role milling grain, which arrived at the nearby port of Castellammare di Stabia, a vital operation to Naples and surrounding towns.This article was amended on 30 October 2026 to correct misspellings of pasta makers Garofalo and Ducato d’Amalfi. Continue reading...

Oct 28, 2026 - Lifestyle

From the packaging to the products, brands aimed at young people have come a long wayThere’s some great new skincare in town for teens – and none of it preys on insecurities.I really like Equals Even, a British-made line for young people. The founders are two female doctors (and mothers), not dermatologists, which feels appropriate, since frontline physicians manage more routine, everyday teen skin struggles than specialist consultants tackling severe conditions and cutting out cancers. Continue reading...

Oct 28, 2026 - Lifestyle

The department store’s future is in question, but its legacy has many points of prideGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailDavid Jones has lived through a lot. It has survived two world wars, the Great Depression, modern recessions and changing tastes. But lately, it feels like death by a thousand cuts for the department store, whose future beyond Christmas is in question. Not that other department stores around the globe are immune – but for Australians, this one feels especially raw.There have been so many points of pride in its 188-year history. On that point alone, David Jones remains the world’s oldest continuously operating department store still trading under its original name. Not London’s Selfridges, not New York’s Saks Fifth Avenue – but our own DJs (as it is affectionately known).Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Sunday morning Continue reading...