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Which Firefighting Job Should You Choose?

Strategy Driven

There are many different jobs available in a fire department and knowing which one best suits you can help you determine what courses you’d like to pursue during training. If chemicals are involved in a fire, these technicians have the proper equipment and training to handle it safely. Investigator.

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Why Great Leadership Requires the Courage to Accept Pain

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Angela Sebaly : As a leadership coach, I’ve spent decades observing hundreds of people who have strikingly different backgrounds and equally diverse approaches to leadership. This may sound like par for the course, but in fact, it’s more complicated than it sounds and is often shirked because with challenges, comes pain.

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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

The best part about it is how diverse the field is – a mixture of engineering, science, computer programming, and hands-on fabrication trade skills all centered around simple trigonometric equations – it’s mostly triangles. Takes 2 years to get your education and the courses are dirt cheap and the jobs are in huge demand.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Taught two of the largest and most popular courses in Harvard’s history, ‘Positive Psychology’ and ‘The Psychology of Leadership.’ 100 COACHES.

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Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

Harvard Business Review

But there is a deeper lesson to my story that I hope will help others build exceptional, and exceptionally diverse, teams. Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world.

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Marvel’s Iron Fist

Joseph Lalonde

The cast of Iron Fist was also racially diverse. From Colleen Wing (played by Jessica Henwick, also from Game Of Thrones) to the return of Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson reprised her role from Daredevil , Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage), there was a lot of diversity in the supposedly whitewashed Iron Fist.

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

Over the last five years there has been a substantial increase in the number of leading business schools offering courses to meet this demand. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing.