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  Diamond: Visionary dreamers are leading disruptive ventures. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator went viral and became the ultimate workplace vibe check, with over 50 million people taking it. When she discovered Carl Jung's book Psychological Types, she was like, "OMG, this is lit!" "and like, she totally integrated his research into her typology, you know?" Both mom and daughter, now married to Chief, kept peeping people and tagging their "types" for the next two decades. (OMG, Isabel stayed with her "incompatible" boyfriend for 61 years, like, what?).  OMG, just after the start of World War II, Isabel was reading an article in Reader's Digest about how women were flooding the workplace and having a difficult time finding the right job. That was crazy! She realized her mother's research could help women find jobs that fit their personalities.  Isabel began flexing on everyone she could find, including friends, classmates, and coworker...

  According to President Biden, Canada is the United States' closest friend, partner, and ally. Over the last 150 years, our two countries have developed one of the most intimate and extended partnerships. Canada is our largest commercial partner, with approximately $2.6 billion in products and services crossing our shared border, the world's longest land border, each day, representing a nearly 20% growth over the previous year in 2022. This trade supports millions of jobs on both sides of the border. Our individuals have deep personal and familial bonds, and we've worked together to address some of the world's most important issues. President Biden's administration has restored trust and confidence between our two countries while reaffirming the United States' long-standing commitment to the US-Canada relationship. The US-Canada alliance benefits not only our people, but the entire world, because collaboration enables us to do anything. The United States and C...

  However, this gazelle-diamond is low-key described as autocratic and stubborn. His first CEO sued him, alleging Musk had slandered him and taken undue credit for founding the company. When the New York Times slammed the Model S, Musk labeled it "fake" and a "ethics violation" and went on a month-long personal rant against the reporter. However, when he plopped himself on the couple's couch in Beirut and began flexing his favorite pastime, gaming, her patience was gone. Three days into Brahms' sabbatical, she bluntly told him: "You gotta find a way to make that bread or no more consoles in this crib." He needed a new vibe immediately. Late at night, after a long day of gaming, he watched The Social Network, which is about the early days of Facebook.  This was his shining moment: there was no social network to showcase gamers from various platforms—Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. "If Mark Zuckerberg can do it, why can't I, fam?" "He s...

  OMG, like, customers who totally missed the sale were offered hella discounted prices. It was lit! The company had, like, a totally awful month, "because we totally deserved it," Dunn said. "It was hella daunting, but it lowkey brought everyone together." I remember seeing everybody vibin' on a Saturday and feeling the good vibes and thinking, 'We'll be Gucci.'" Customers were like, "Yasss." On social media, shoppers were totally vibing with the company's honesty. One Facebook user wrote: "Y'all have always been at the top of my Best Customer Service list and have totally slayed this outage." Keep slayin' the service and keep that communication on fleek! Signed, Customer 4 lyfe.   The website stayed offline for another two days, fam. When it went back, fam One of the more dramatic biz turnaround stories of recent years was like, not just one apology but two. In July 2011, Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix and Fo...

  The US and Canada have one of the world's greatest bilateral business connections, with a tightly interwoven energy and automotive markets. For the past 30 years, commercial ties between the United States and Canada have been governed by the 1989 U.S.-Canada Free commercial Agreement, the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Congress may assess the impact of current and potential trade disputes and cooperation with Canada during the 2026 review of USMCA. U.S.-Canada Trade Overview Figure 1 shows that Canada is the leading trade partner for the United States in terms of both commodities and services. In 2023, Canada exported 78% of its commodities to the United States while importing nearly half of them. According to U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data from 2022, the United States is the greatest source of foreign direct investment (FDI) by stock in Canada ($438.8 billion), while Canada is the fourth-large...

  The US stated last year that it would give $250 million to U.S. and Canadian companies through the Defense Production Act (DPA) to mine and process important minerals for batteries in electric vehicles and stationary applications. This spring, awards will be given to companies in the United States and Canada. The Canadian Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund will give CAD $1.5 billion to projects that improve transportation and clean energy. The Strategic Innovation Fund will also give CAD $1.5 billion to projects that improve manufacturing, processing, and recycling. These steps will make it easier for the US and Canada to work together on making supply chains more resilient. Both Canada and the United States will work together to build a cross-border corridor for semiconductor packaging. To start, Canada and IBM are offering big incentives as part of an agreement to build new and better packaging and testing facilities at IBM's Bromont plant. The deal will make the economies o...