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Using Social Media To Help Sustainability Research

The Horizons Tracker

As over half of the global population engages in social media, user-generated data has become an abundant source for social scientists studying attitudes toward the environment and sustainability. However, the success of social media data science faces several challenges, warns an international research team.

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What Women Leaders Bring to the New Decade :: Women on Business

Women on Business

We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way. It includes men, invites men as partners to rethink what we are doing to the planet, why we continue to put work ahead of family, ahead of raising the next generation, how much is enough, what really matters. We are not here to become like our men.

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The Growing Power of Women in Business

Women on Business

Hewlett-Packard, another technology company, named Meg Whitman as their CEO in September 2011. Social media is all about communicating and engaging, and women have the upper hand here. In the past, business was about cooperation, and we cooperated because we had to. Men are great at cooperating.

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Leadership and a Cup of Tea :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Leadership is about being a model of behaving in ways that create cooperation and collaboration. The Vietnamese name for teacher is Thay, and that moment of having “Tea with Thay” is still comforting when the business of the day begins to overtake me. Please share some of your best practices for reducing stress and renewing your spirit.

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Two Books to Better Organizational Results

Kevin Eikenberry

He takes five key roles of leaders and explores them in a chapter: Improve vision Ensure accountability Build unity and cooperation Create better decisions Motivate to action Then he opens each section with a list of great questions, and the chapter follows with comments, stories and ideas related to each question.

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A Christmas Newsletter from the Edmondson Family 2011

Ron Edmondson

When weather and schedules cooperate, we walk downtown at night and through the campus of Austin Peay State University (our Alma mater and the fastest growing university in our state). Jeremy has proven to be a hard worker and is doing well in his new career in marketing and social media. Merry Christmas! We love it.

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How to Kiss and Make Up

Next Level Blog

Agenda items could include resolving past disputes, agreeing to disagree where necessary and, most importantly, identifying points of mutual agreement and what requires cooperation. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the.

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