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Frequent and capricious shifts in priorities can overwhelm your organization.

Two days after President Trump announced his expansive global tariffs, the United States confronted wide-ranging blowback, with China retaliating against American goods and markets falling sharply on worries of a persistent and damaging trade war. No portion of the global economy appeared unscathed as the world braced for Mr. Trump to begin imposing his nearly…

Sizing up what President Trump’s new tariffs mean for India was a puzzle from the start for even the country’s top trade economists. Its politicians, too, were stunned. Starting next week, nearly all Indian goods arriving in the United States will be taxed an extra 27 percent. The figure was bafflingly high, in part because…

Schumer says Trump using ‘tariffs in the dumbest way possible’ U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference on Senate Republican’s Budget Resolution legislation at the U.S. Capitol on April 03, 2025 in Washington, DC.  Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “Trump is using tariffs in…

When managers are overloaded as many are now, the usual leadership advice is to delegate more. But what if you’ve delegated everything you can and you still have too much work? If your team is drowning too, delegating more work simply means shifting the overload. This is not a sustainable option.

Share prices fell for a second day on Friday in Asia and Europe, and futures market trading indicated that U.S. share prices might soon slip further as well, as worries persisted about the economic effect of President Trump’s broad tariffs. The Nikkei 225 Index in Japan fell 2.8 percent. That matched a drop on Thursday…