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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. Little did he know we were already connected – through bonds of purpose, passion and our alma mater. Without the temptation of the internet and fewer gadgets, there seems to be more hours in the day. In the U.S.,

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Voice of Experience: Augusta Sanfilippo (Citi)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Anderson for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Here is an excerpt from a profile of Augusta Sanfilippo (Managing Director, Cash Securities Operations IT, Citi) written by Melissa J.

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The DISC Model of Human Behavior – A Quick Overview | Guy Harris.

The Recovering Engineer

For example, I can use a hammer to build a house or to attack my neighbor. In both cases, the hammer is just a hammer. There are also lots of controversy about those tests and what they are suppose to demonstrate but more particularly about their application. It has no moral or ethical standing on its own.

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The Right Kind of Stress Can Bond Your Team Together

Harvard Business Review

One of those conclusions was that stress actually made people feel more bonded to their organizations. And those bonds might just keep people in an organization, even where they’re probably getting paid less than in the private sector and might even be less safe. Seems counterintuitive, doesn’t it?

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The Best Morale Boost $3 Million Can Buy

Harvard Business Review

“But the absurdity of these things is kind of like their way of bonding. “There were catchphrases that had to be hammered into the head of the employees, just like advertising does to the general public.” I recently spoke with Sport Murphy over the phone. ” True. Patterson fired a certain Thomas J.

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The Branding Logic Behind Google’s Creation of Alphabet

Harvard Business Review

Concerned about the company’s lack of focus, Wall Street hammered the Starbucks stock, resulting in a drop in share price of 28% in one day – a $2 billion loss in the company’s market capitalization. Think of the equity of a brand in terms of a bank account.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

With something like the Riker’s Island social impact bond (which finances behavioral therapy for 16-to-18-year-old jail inmates in New York), the fact that Bloomberg Philanthropies provides a guarantee to that bond is very, very smart because it does two things. We don’t want to go there.