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The Haiti Humanitarian Air Bridge: Facilitating Aid

UVA Darden

The Haiti Humanitarian Air Bridge: Facilitating Aid burtonc Fri, 08/18/2023 - 10:24 18 August 2023 Business, Ethics & Society Operations & Technology Public-Private Partnerships Maggie Morse The Social Challenge Delivery of Aid for Health Crises Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) around the world rely on air transportation to deliver material assistance to communities experiencing emergencies.

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Designing Generative AI to Work for People with Disabilities

Harvard Business Review

While trust is taking top billing in many discussions about generative AI’s design and uses, it’s also important to bring inclusivity and accessibility into the thick of things early on.

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Wake Up to Possibility

Mark Sandborn

While waiting in the drive through line at Starbucks this morning, I noticed a man helping his small son out of the back of his SUV. When the little boy emerged, he was wearing a full astronaut suit, complete with the most realistic helmet complete with tinted visor I’ve ever seen. I gave the young astronaut a thumbs up, and his dad looked at me and shrugged, suggesting he had no idea what possessed his son to dress up like a space man today.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Entering a Business Partnership

Harvard Business Review

For many, a successful business partnership is among their most positive and significant relationships. Good partners can have a lot of fun together, become intertwined in one another’s success, and be great friends through life’s ups and downs. Overall, it’s worth taking the risk. It’s also worth being prudent and intentional at the outset so that you can immunize the partnership against future problems or end a flawed partnership before it begins.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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How To Work With Difficult Coworkers

Eric Jacobson

Nearly everyone I know has shared a story about a difficult person they’ve encountered in their workplace. Experiencing difficult individuals in the workplace is common. So common that author Amy Gallo identifies eight archetypes , each representing a common type of “difficult” person likely found in most workplaces. “We might lie awake at night worrying, withdraw from work, or react in ways we later regret—rolling our eyes in a meeting, snapping at colleagues, or staying silent when we should s

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Jim Fielding, Ex-Head of Disney Stores, on the Struggles of Making It as a Queer Executive

Harvard Business Review

According to Yahoo Finance, there are only four openly gay CEOs atop Fortune 500 companies. That’s up from zero in 2014, when Apple’s Tim Cook came out. But it represents less than 1% of the cohort, well below the 7% rate of Americans in general who identity as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Is there a glass ceiling for gay executives? And if so, are some queer bosses still opting to stay in the closet to avoid damaging their careers?

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Accomplishments on Your Resume: How to List Achievements

BetterUp

Jump to section Should I include work accomplishments on a resume?

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The Change Control Process: How To Get Started

Walk Me

A change control process is the steps you take to implement specific changes to a plan, product, or strategy. Every organization treats change control differently. A typical change process will usually include elements such as a change request, impact assessment, authorization, documentation, and review. A change control process is a very important part of project management.

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How to Think Long-Term

Ed Batista

We're not well-served by treating successful leaders as oracles. Patterning ourselves after someone else's example and expecting similar results ignores survivorship bias and the role of random chance in success. [1] That said, it's equally foolish to imagine that we have nothing to learn from successful leaders, and Jeff Bezos' perspective on long-term thinking is instructive: When somebody congratulates Amazon on a good quarter, I say "Thank you," but what I'm thinking to myself is, "Those qua

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Rhythm Case Studies - Think Plan Do® Methodology in Action

Rhythm Systems Growth

In our two decades of observing patterns of success and failure in companies across various industries, I've noticed a stark reality. Fewer than 4% of businesses in the US ever surpass $10 million in revenue, and approximately 17,000 see more than $50 million. It's a select category of companies that continue growing with double-digit growth, causing their companies to double every three to five years.

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Change Management 101: A Practical 3 Part Guide

Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement.

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Is Personal Time Off Paid? It Depends

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s personal time off? Are personal days the same as paid time off? How do personal time off policies work?

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How to Adapt Core Values for Business Growth

15Five

HR leader Christine Kaszubski traces the roots of her HR career back to her childhood in Michigan, as the daughter of two entrepreneurs. Her parents taught her that business is about relationships. Every new deal, campaign, and initiative should be approached through the lens of the people who make it happen. Today, Kaszubski lives that philosophy as Chief People Officer at Pindrop , an information security company that helps people detect fraudulent phone calls.

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ChatGPT for Recruiting: 15 Practical Prompts You Can Use Right Away

AIHR

Using ChatGPT for recruiting can help talent acquisition and HR professionals work more effectively and save time. As the chatbot is based on a large language model (LLM), it is useful for a lot of the textual work talent acquisition professionals do. In this article, we will dive deeper into ChatGPT for recruiting. We’ll offer tips for using it and what not to use it for, and we’ll share 15 effective prompts that you can use immediately in the various stages of the hiring process.

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Are Relationships Your Top Work Priority? Here’s Why They Should Be

Michael McKinney

I T’S AN AMAZING FEELING: When you walk into Rob Ulmer’s office, he instantly lets go of whatever he’s doing. He turns to you with a warm greeting and gives you his undivided attention. As colleagues who worked under Rob’s leadership for years, we can’t recall a single instance when we felt pushed out, nudged to leave, or disengaged. Rob simply gives you his full self.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.