How The Most Successful People Start And End Their Workdays

April 4, 2017 Good morning! Lately, it's been open season on human resources departments. Whenever a scandal unfolds at a well-known company like Uber or Thinx, everybody immediately points to failures in HR. But this is misguided. After speaking with HR professionals, professors, and experts, it's become clear to me that without strong leadership invested in good culture, HR departments are hamstrung, unable to effect change. The good news is that it doesn't need to be this way. [Here are some strategies to make sure that your HR team is empowered to advocate on behalf on employees](. --[L]([iz Segran]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [One San Francisco Politician Is Exploring A Tax On Robots]( Taxing companies that use robots to help pay for the workers they’ve displaced has been floated as a theoretical solution to a post-automation world. Now San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim is looking into whether it’s what the tech capital needs. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Everyone Knows HR Is Broken: Here’s How To Fix It]( We keep blaming HR when scandals hit. But HR teams with no power can’t keep the company in check. --------------------------------------------------------------- [How The Most Successful People Start And End Their Workdays]( What you do before your workday kicks off and after it winds down can have a big impact on how productive you are during the hours in between. --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Veterans Turned Entrepreneurs Are Disrupting The Pentagon’s Weapons Program]( Shield AI, which wants to reduce American and civilian casualties in ground combat to zero, just raised $10.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Inside Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s Ambitious Plans To Create The Post-Car City]( The first female mayor of the French capital wants to clean the city’s air and lower its carbon footprint. The solution: more walking, more bikes, more public transport—and fewer cars. --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s Your Coworkers’ Fault That You’re So Unproductive, But Not For The Reason You Think]( Productivity is a team sport. If your own work habits clash with your colleagues’, you’re all going down together. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The One Investment Most Startup Founders Don’t Make Early Enough]( Why is design still such an underappreciated differentiator? --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Google’s Code Next Lab Is Tackling Tech’s Diversity Problem]( The space, designed for middle school students who don’t have access to computer education at their own schools, wants to inspire kids to learn about the fun of technological problem solving, while they’re still young. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Your Guide To The Sudden, Unexpected Existence of “Rick & Morty” Season 3]( With no release date announced, Adult Swim dropped the first “Rick & Morty” in 18 months and the Internet went nuts. Here’s why. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ryan Murphy Dissects Last Night’s “Holy Grail” Episode Of “Feud”]( Jessica Lange threw her back out. Oscar trophies were burned. A steadicam shot demanded perfection. Just your regular “love letter to Hollywood.” --------------------------------------------------------------- Share this newsletter [Share]( http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2FcJEuwD [Tweet]( http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2FcJEuwD) [Forward]( Did someone forward you this email? [Subscribe here!]( Too many emails? [Change your subscription preferences here.]( You're receiving this email because you opted in on our website. [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all Fast Company emails]( Mansueto Ventures, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007-2195