Kim Clark served as dean of the faculty at Harvard Business School for a decade. He also served another decade as the 15th president of Brigham Young UniversityIdaho and spent four years as the Commissioner of Education for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Management at Brigham Young University.Jonathan Clark is a professor of management at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he has served as department chair and associate dean.Erin Clark is a managing director with Deloitte Consulting, Human Capital, where she works with clients to improve individual and organizational performance.Here, the authors share five key insights from their new book,Leading Through: Activating the Soul, Heart, and Mind of Leadership.Listen to the audio versionread by the authorsin the Next Big Idea App.1. The need for a shift from Power-Over to Leading ThroughMobilizing people to make things better helps people and organizations thrive. That is the great work of leadership, and it is often very frustrating. In our research, we found that this is because while executives need to do the work of leadershipthe work of mobilizing and empoweringthis is often not what they do. Instead, the actions they take are manifestations of a deeply embedded paradigm ofpowerrather thanleadership.This paradigm of power confuses and conflates the exercise of power with the work of leadership. We call this dominant way of thinking thePower-Overparadigm, shorthand for power over people and the organization. It is subversive and often so deeply embedded that we dont see it. And yet, there is a recognition that something needs to change and many organizations are trying. We can see a new paradigm emerging in these efforts. This book is our attempt to capture these emergent ideas and bring them to life in a new paradigm which we callLeading Through, meaning leading through people and through a leadership process that permeates the entire organization.We use three metaphors that draw on our human nature to describe the Leading Through paradigm: the soul, the heart, and the mind of leadership.2. The soul of leadership: Seeking to do goodThe work of leadership is about doing good and making things better. It is moral work that requires a moral context or shared framework of values and beliefs that guide decisions and actions. The work of activating the soul of leadership includes building on universal values like kindness, honesty, and care to animate the ultimate purpose in an organization. You do this in such a way that it illuminates the boundaries within which everyone acts, from senior executives to the front line.This makes possible one of the most powerful things that leaders do: generate light to propel the organization forward. We use the metaphor of light intentionally as a symbol for life, energy, wisdom, and understanding that defines the moral context of the organization. In contrast, actions that run counter to the moral context generate darkness which leads to inconsistent and damaging actions and decisions.The discernment and discipline necessary to generate light and strengthen an organizations moral context are not a destination or state of being. It is a continuous cycle wherein mistakes are made, and learning and growth become a source of strength for everyone. We call this thecycle of virtue. People who live this cycle are engaged in the work of leadership.3. The heart of leadership: Promoting human thrivingLeaders seek to lift and strengthen people, help them grow, learn, and find meaning in their work. It is an emotional relationship defined by mutual commitments that bind people together. InLeading Through, we present a framework for the heart of leadership. In both our research and our own experience, we have seen the principles behind this framework in action. We call it LIVE, which stands for Love, Inspiration, Vitality, and Expression. LIVE provides a structure for understanding the needs and interests of people and for helping them thrive.Love:We use the concept of love broadly but intentionally to mean human connections of understanding, appreciation, compassion, and care. The personal work of leadership is sustained by creating human connections of love. Without connection, people cannot thrive. We need each other, including at work. This requires intentional effort on the part of individuals; it requires leadership.Inspiration:The wordinspirecomes from a Latin root meaningto breathe into. In common usage, inspire captures the sense of an influence that energizes, invigorates, and motivates. When truly inspired, you are learning, growing, and becoming more. Engaging in leadership work to mobilize and empower inspires those around you.Vitality:We think of vitality as positive personal energy for meaningful action. This is both physical and emotional. On the physical side, it derives from the condition and care of our bodies, the extent to which our bodies function properly and are properly fueled. On the emotional side, it comes from the ability to regulate stress and anxiety, and is tightly intertwined with good mental health. Leaders create energy by focusing on vitality as an intentional outcome, nurturing personal energy that in turn energizes others.Expression:People who thrive act on their inspiration and energy to give expression to their knowledge, wisdom, and skill. In LIVE, we focus on two forms of expression: voice and creativity. People who thrive have a voice: the opportunity to share their ideas and contribute to making meaningful decisions. People who thrive also have the chance to create and contribute to developing and producing something new, either through improvement or innovation. With voice and creativity, people experience the joy of expression and thrive by making meaningful contributions to work they value.Alignment across the four elements of the LIVE framework has a powerful amplifying effect. We align ourselves with others and build others up, and they, in turn, do the same. There is more power in the work and we all grow and accomplish important things together.4. The mind of leadership: Advancing action, learning, and changeThe mind of leadership brings to life what we call theleadership process, the work that propels groups and organizations toward a desirable future. In using the leadership process in our work and teaching it to others, we have found it universally applicable for mobilizing and empowering people. In the leadership process, the work of leadership is done by those who lead the team as well as every member of that team.There are three phases to the leadership process:Initiate.Opportunities and challenges are assessed and identified, and connections are made with key stakeholders.Mobilize.Teams and a network of key partners are built and established.Empower.The core team and network of partners are activated and engaged in the work, and their efforts are focused to propel the work forward.The leadership process provides a framework in which the mind of leadership finds powerful application and, together with the soul and heart, drives the work of leadership.5. The modular leadership system: Leadership that permeatesA greater degree of autonomy at work results in more energized, engaged people and more effective organizations. Further, the freedom to choose and initiate action is fundamental to creativity and innovationbut so, too, is structure. Without some structure, initiative could spiral out of control.How can an organization have both innovation through initiative and freedom alongside unity and alignment from structure? The principle ofmodularity. In a modular system, the components work well as a united whole but can also be designed, developed, and improved independently.Modularity makes freedom of action possible while ensuring a cohesive, unified whole. The benefits of modularity depend on three aspects of organization design:How work is organized and carried out across the organization.How integration aligns work across the organization.How power dynamics shape how power is used and expressed.InLeading Through, we identify what needs to be true in each of the three areas to enable both freedom and unity. Namely, we need a framework focused on innovation through initiative; we need an approach to integration focused on making more information visible and accessible to more people; and we need power dynamics that activate the power within people. There is great potential in everyone, and the modular leadership system aims to liberate and enable the power of that potential wherever it can be found.This article originally appeared in Next Big Idea Club magazine and is reprinted with permission.

Foxconn is moving into the AR glasses market, and that will also help Apple use microLED displays in future products. Here's how.MiniLED, as used in the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro could be superseded by microLEDApple has gradually changed the display technologies it uses in its products over the years. After using TFT, OLED, and mini LED, the next shift to microLED could end up being helped by an investment by a supply chain partner.In a Tuesday announcement, Foxconn revealed a partnership with Porotech, a company working in the augmented reality industry, with a background in display technology. Under the partnership, Foxconn will be entering the AR glasses market, with the two working on microLED wafer processing and optical module packaging. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

The M4 Pro MacBook Pro 14-inch has hit a new record low price of $1,699, with units in stock with free store pickup as early as today. But don't delay, as the deal ends on Christmas Eve.Grab the best price on Apple's M4 MacBook Pro.The $300 price cut at Best Buy on the standard M4 Pro MacBook Pro 14-inch knocks the price down to a new all-time low of $1,699. Equipped with a 12-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 24GB unified memory and 512GB of storage, the standard model in your choice of Space Black or Silver offers a solid amount of performance for the sub-$1,700 price point.Get the $1,699 MBP deal Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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This year, Hulu officially became a part of Disney Plus, which means no more bouncing back and forth between the two apps if youre subscribed to both. The two services had some pretty noteworthy releases this year, including several new additions to the Marvel and Star Wars lineups on Disney Plus, along with a variety of binge-worthy shows from Hulu.Here are all the best shows released this year that you can stream on both platforms.Agatha All Along takes place three years after the end of WandaVision. It follows Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), whos released from a magical spell by a mysterious teen (Joe Locke). As Agatha looks to restore her lost powers, she recruits an eclectic coven of witches, including a lover from her past, Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza), a divination witch Lilia Calderu (Patti LuPone), and a potions expert Jennifer Kale (Sasheer Zamata), to take on the trials of the Witches Road.Skeleton Crew is the latest Star Wars spinoff to hit Disney Plus. Its a coming-of-age story featuring four kids Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), KB (Kyriana Kratter), and Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) who get lost in a foreign galaxy after exploring an abandoned ship on their home planet. As they try to find a way back home, they encounter the Force-wielding Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law), and things only get wilder from there.If youre in the mood for a riveting historical drama to immerse yourself in, Shgun is a great choice. It takes place in 17th-century Japan, revolving around two key figures: the powerful Lord Yoshi Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) and John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), an Englishman who winds up in Japan following a shipwreck. The story is adapted from a 1975 book by James Clavell and is loosely based on real events.Along with Skeleton Crew, Disney Plus added The Acolyte to its lineup of original Star Wars shows this year. The Acolyte is set around 100 years before The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte was canceled after one season, its still worth watching if youre looking for a new spin on Star Wars.We Were the Lucky Ones is a heart-wrenching miniseries based on a book by Georgia Hunter, which chronicles her familys struggles as they fought to survive World War II and the Holocaust. Its centered around the Kurcs, a Jewish family living in Poland, who are separated when war breaks out and attempt to reunite. Some noteworthy names in this series include Joey King as the youngest sibling, Halina Kurc, and Logan Lermanas one of her brothers, Addy Kurc.As the title suggests, Marvels X-Men 97 is reminiscent of the classic and beloved X-Men: The Animated Series. It picks up one year after the events in the 90s-era series, which sees the return of Cyclops (Ray Chase), Jean Grey (Jennifer Hale), Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith), Wolverine (Cal Dodd), Rogue (Lenore Zann), and other familiar mutants as they face new challenges in the absence of Professor Charles Xavier.Speaking of Marvel, the companys first TV-MA series made its debut on Disney Plus this year. Echo offers a deeper look at the skilled fighter Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox), who first appeared as a villain in 2021s Hawkeye. The five-episode series touches upon her Native American roots, along with her troubled backstory that left her an amputee. Lopez, who is deaf, returns to her Oklahoma hometown, where she aims to take control of an enemys crime ring.Doctor Who has returned for a 14th series. This time, the alien Time Lord is portrayed by Ncuti Gatwa, who was first introduced as the Fifteenth Doctor during a 2023 Christmas special. The show hit Disney Plus in full this year, featuring the Doctor and his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) as they investigate strange incidents across London while running into some new enemies along the way.The Bear released its third season this year, making it a good time to catch up on the Emmy-winning series. It stars Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto, a prestigious chef who moves back to Chicago after inheriting his late brothers Italian sandwich shop. The third season only expands on the chaos in the kitchen as a stressed-out Carmy juggles issues at home and work as he tries to transform his restaurant into a Michelin-starred spot.Based on the book by Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown is sort of like a show within a show, starring Jimmy O. Yang as Willis Wu, an actor and waiter in a Chinatown restaurant longing to break out of his role as a background character in a procedural crime show. However, things start to change once Willis witnesses a crime and detective Lana Lee (Chloe Bennet) asks him for help solving the case.

If nothing else, 2024 was the year Apple TV Plus firmly cemented itself as one of the best places to stream science fiction shows. This year, in particular, had a breadth of options, with sci-fi series ranging from cozy mysteries to old-fashioned noirs. Of course, theres more to the streaming service than just sci-fi which is where the likes of Pachinko and Disclaimer come in. If youre looking for something new to watch on Apple TV Plus, here are a few great places to start.This series stood out among Apples other sci-fi shows thanks to its dark tone. Constellation follows an astronaut named Jo (Noomi Rapace), who survives an evacuation of the International Space Station only to return to an Earth seemingly very different from the one she left. Its the kind of show that leaves you guessing as to what is really real and as the vibe turns even darker, that question becomes even harder to answer.Dark MatterBased on the novel by Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is yet another story about parallel universes. But dont tune out yet: even if youre sick of the multiverse, this is worth checking out. The show follows a physicist named Jason (Joel Edgerton) who manages to kidnap himself. One version of Jason lives a quiet, happy, yet somewhat unfulfilled life as a college professor. But in another world, hes massively successful yet completely lonely and will do anything to fix the latter.From Alfonso Cuarn, the director behind Gravity and Children of Men, Disclaimer is a psychological thriller starring Cate Blanchett as a journalist dealing with revelations about her past brought to light by a mysterious manuscript. The show plays with truth and time, as it explores not only the contents of the document but also how it has impacted everyone in the present.The first season of Pachinko did an incredible job of adapting Min Jin Lees historical drama, while adding its own twist, creating a multilingual narrative that jumps around in time. Season 2 simply continues this, delving further into a family story that spans four generations, though, this time, the story is largely focused on two distinct periods in the familys history: Osaka in 1945, and Tokyo in 1989.Okay, this isnt a new series, but with season 2 on the way in January, now is the time to catch up or refresh yourself on this twisted workplace thriller. The show is centered on Lumon Industries, a massive tech conglomerate that utilizes an experimental procedure for those working in its mysterious basement. In essence, they sever themselves into two halves: one in the outside world who doesnt have to worry about what happens at their 9-5, and another trapped in an unending office hellscape. Season 1 set up a number of mysteries, so the new episodes will have a lot to answer for.On the surface, Silo looks like yet another postapocalyptic drama, all gray and brown and dour. But its actually an excellent mystery, one that felt small in season 1 but has expanded as the show continues to grow in scale. And the good news is that theres still a lot of story to explore: the first two seasons only cover the first book in Hugh Howeys trilogy.Sunny is a murder mystery with a retrofuturistic twist. When her husband and son go missing following a plane crash, Suzie Sakamoto (Rashida Jones) has almost no information to start investigating, until she comes across the titular bot Sunny (Joanna Sotomura). Of course, Suzie hates machines, and so Sunny becomes something of an odd couple buddy story, as the two try to find out what really happened.Private investigator John Sugar (Colin Farrell) is in many ways a stereotypical PI: he drives a cool car, always wears a suit, and loves a great whiskey. Hes also the best man around for finding missing people. That all makes Sugar an excellent noir series, but partway through, a big twist turns into an equally interesting piece of science fiction one that looks to be going to some interesting places in its second season.

LatestMachine LearningStep-by-Step Exploration of Transformer Attention Mechanisms 0 like December 23, 2024Share this postLast Updated on December 24, 2024 by Editorial TeamAuthor(s): Shenggang Li Originally published on Towards AI. A Practical Walkthrough of Training Transformer Models with Insights into Positional Encoding and Its Role in Attention DynamicsThis member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium.Photo by Abiyyu Zahy on UnsplashIf youre diving into AI and want to understand the secret sauce behind modern language models like ChatGPT or BERT, you need to get familiar with Transformers and their game-changing attention mechanism. These concepts are the foundation of cutting-edge NLP, and once you grasp them, youll see why theyre so powerful and versatile.Imagine youre trying to read a book, not line by line, but by flipping to any page you want instantly and picking up on the connections between parts of the story. Thats kind of what Transformers do in NLP. They ditched the old ways of reading word-by-word, like RNNs or LSTMs, and instead take in whole chunks of data whether its a sentence, a paragraph, or an entire sequence all at once. This gives them super speed in training and makes them great at spotting patterns across the whole text.At the heart of this magic is something called the attention mechanism. Its like having a spotlight that focuses on the most important words in a sentence while still keeping an eye on the rest.Were going to break it all down Read the full blog for free on Medium.Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter. Join over 80,000 subscribers and keep up to date with the latest developments in AI. From research to projects and ideas. If you are building an AI startup, an AI-related product, or a service, we invite you to consider becoming asponsor. Published via Towards AITowards AI - Medium Share this post