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By Michelle LaBrosse
 For many businesses, winter is a busy and frenetic time of the year. It just so happens that the need for increased productivity also coincides with fewer work days to do the work, since many holidays fall during this time. A good manager has the time management, decision-making and organizational skills to lead her team through this challenging time of the year. She also has another important quality that is too frequently overlooked: patience.
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FutureStructure
While artificial intelligence is a loaded term that for some may conjure up images of a malicious Skynet system from the Terminator movie franchise, the reality is not as ominous. And when Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, argued during the U.S. Congress' first AI hearing — dubbed “The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence” — that it is already at work in the United States, improving the efficiency and productivity of systems across the map, he was right.
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Governing
As the scofflaw supervisor for Allentown Parking Authority, Jon Haney oversees efforts by Pennsylvania’s third-largest city to crack down on drivers who don’t pay their tickets. Haney and his crew install parking boots on 100 vehicles a month, and, if that doesn’t get motorists to pay up, sometimes they even have to tow their cars or trucks.
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Los Angeles Times
The manager of an Oakland warehouse said he was “incredibly sorry” for a devastating fire that killed at least 36 people during an electronic music event Friday night, but balked when asked if he should be held accountable for the loss.
In an interview with the NBC “Today” show on Tuesday, Derick Almena, who manages the building, said he was just trying to create a venue that would host at-risk youth, the gay community and underground artists. Almena said he signed a lease “and I got a building that was to city standards, supposedly.”
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By Michael J. Berens
 Effective leadership is critical to the success of any organization. At every level of the organization, how individuals in leadership positions conduct themselves has a reverberating impact on performance and productivity. For that reason, companies are willing to invest considerable time and resources on leadership development. It may be, however, that they need only focus on two fundamental traits that appear to determine most how effective leaders are.
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Knoxville News Sentinel via USA Today
As a continued rain helps drown the last of the wildfires near the Great Smoky Mountains on Tuesday, that water has the potential to cause more trouble in Tennessee's Sevier County.
"Burn scar" is a term used at the National Weather Service to explain a situation in which a mass burn such as the one in and around Gatlinburg, Tenn., and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park makes the ground less able to hold water and more likely to flood.
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Government Technology
A fleet of eight micro-satellites launch this month from Cape Canaveral to investigate an atmospheric mystery as old as the sea and sky.
With core technologies the size of a loaf of bread and weighing just 64 pounds each, the innovative Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System will belt the Earth between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn to monitor hurricane hot spots.
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Government Executive
You’ve likely seen the video before: a stream of kids, confronted with a single, alluring marshmallow. If they can resist eating it for 15 minutes, they’ll get two. Some do. Others cave almost immediately.
This “Marshmallow Test,” first conducted in the 1960s, perfectly illustrates the ongoing war between impulsivity and self-control.
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Route Fifty
The “most wonderful time of the year” may be the hardest for tens of thousands of young people locked up for the holidays.
But many states try — within the confines of security rules, budgets and protocols — to make the season a little brighter for youthful offenders, who often are housed far from home.
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Scientific American
Outbreaks of tornadoes — where multiple tornadoes form over an area in just a few hours or days — are responsible for most of the devastating destruction caused by severe weather, and a new analysis has reached a worrying conclusion about the worst of these outbreaks.
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