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Educate New Managers on Their New Responsibilities

Deming Institute

Since the Deming management system includes educating everyone on useful management tools and using the abilities of everyone as much as possible most non-supervisors will have gained significant knowledge and experience during their career. But in many other organizations this education and experience is often fairly limited.

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What Data on Formula One Crashes Suggests About Workplace Rivalries

Harvard Business Review

The stakes here may not be as high — the corporate fast lane normally doesn’t require risking life and limb – but the damage can be costly nonetheless, both for companies and for individual careers.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

This year, PON honored Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore as its 2014 “Great Negotiator.” During his remarkable career, described in detail here , Koh played central roles in some of the most complex international negotiations ever held. Special Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky. Focus On: Negotiating.

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How Your Company Can Better Retain Employees Who Are Veterans

Harvard Business Review

According to that same VetAdvisor and Syracuse report, the top reasons veterans report for departing their first jobs include lack of career development/advancement, work that lacks meaning, limited professional development opportunities, or unfamiliar work culture. However, there are a lot of other, less positive, reasons for these figures.

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Powerful People React More Unethically to Incentives

Harvard Business Review

The study’s findings are significant for the business world, where powerful people can have a huge effect on the careers and day-to-day work of those beneath them, but the implications go much further. He was sentenced to 40–60 years in prison despite the victim saying she had little opportunity to view her assailant.

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What We Can Learn About Resilience from Female Leaders of the UN

Harvard Business Review

The West African nation was devastated by civil war from 1991 to 2002, suffered a major Ebola outbreak from 2014 to 2015, and lost more than 1,000 people in a major mudslide near the capital city of Freetown on August 14, 2017. The role of self-compassion in resilience extends to career decision making.

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Business Can Help End Child Labor

Harvard Business Review

I therefore committed my professional career to research how to make innovations happen. This past winter, I had the distinct honor of meeting activist Kailash Satyarthi , the co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. For instance, I challenged businesses to design a $300 house for the poor.