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Deep questions: What diving teaches us about uncertainty and risk

Chartered Management Institute

In a hazardous world, managers can learn from the world of scuba diving: train hard, because you’ll never get rid of risk Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver. The Human Diver runs a range of risk training for diving and other high-risk activities.

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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

Becoming a lawyer requires a four-year bachelor’s degree and three years of law school training. In addition, they may be involved in other aspects of employee relations, including payroll, benefits, and training. A management analyst helps an organization reduce costs, increase revenue, and become more profitable.

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Recruiter-IZE Your Resume and Finally Get some Interviews

Strategy Driven

But what got her mad was meeting a woman in her SPIN class who worked for a household name film studio and told her the truth. But to give the same well worn advice now that technology has changed both the purpose of resumes and the delivery system, is to literally cost people interviews rather than help them acquire them.

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How to Prepare for a Crisis You Couldn’t Possibly Predict

Harvard Business Review

Traders blamed Nasdaq for hundreds of millions of dollars of losses, and the mistake exposed the exchange to litigation , fines , and reputational costs. Some teams, such as film crews and SWAT teams, face surprises all the time. In the film industry, this knowledge comes from how people progress through their careers.

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Outsourcing the Old Folks

Harvard Business Review

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. Besides, it's cheaper for the superannuated set to move to India than retire in high-cost zones like the U.K. and the U.S. They find new life instead of old age.

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

Harvard Business Review

In the last week, film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment — which many have described as an open secret in Hollywood — have exploded onto the pages of the New York Times. Second, they show genuine understanding of the cost of inequality for everyone (not to mention the organizational bottom line).

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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