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3 Ways Executives Can Champion Lifelong Learning

Lead Change Blog

With fall officially here, children are now fully settled in at school, businesses are back up to full speed after summer vacations, and many of us are taking stock of our 2017 resolutions – and how to accomplish them before the holidays approach. Learning not only benefits ourselves but helps advance our communities as well.

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The Link Between Unemployment And Crime

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers examined individual-level data on male workers and criminal cases in Brazil between 2009 and 2017. As a result, they argue that policies to get people back into work as quickly as possible can have a dual benefit.

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How To Persuade When Compensation Isn’t Offered

The Horizons Tracker

After training with over 60,000 DonorsChoose projects spanning the years 2009 to 2017, the algorithm pinpointed the sentences within the project proposals that played a pivotal role in determining the outcome – whether they secured funding or not.

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Why do so many leadership development programs fail?

Great Results Team Building

Another study found that approximately 34% of leadership training programs do not achieve their intended outcomes (Avolio, Reichard, Hannah, Walumbwa, & Chan, 2009). The process of becoming an EFFECTIVE LEADER addresses each of those issues.

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2017 ASA Deming Lecture, W. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician

Deming Institute

2017 ASA Deming Lecture, W. Stuart Hunter (2009 ASA Deming Lecture) – Thinking Required, Not Just a Recipe to Follow. Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician, by Fritz Scheuren , NORC-University of Chicago.

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Self Employment Can Help Reduce Unemployment, But Not Everywhere

The Horizons Tracker

There was evidence of this trend after the financial crisis in 2007-2009, when business creation began to surge in the wake of rising unemployment. This so-called necessity-based entrepreneurship is often a far cry from the high-tech, rapid growth-oriented startups the tech press love to pore over.

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A Guide to Conquering Loneliness at Work

HR Digest

IBM had 40 percent of its workforce working from home in 2009. Continuous loss in profitability forced them to reconsider remote working in 2017. People working remotely can feel isolated so the approach should be a way to get them more involved in the organizational structure.