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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2023

Leading Blog

You'll learn from more than a hundred successful leaders who share their powerful insights and compelling stories of how to make the leap, along with practical strategies and tactics for building a loyal following, moving up quickly to broaden your impact, and making the subtle but crucial mindset shifts that are required to lead others effectively.

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Using AI To Understand Smell

The Horizons Tracker

The latest example in the field comes via new research from the University of California, Riverside, which highlights how machine learning is used to understand what a chemical smells like. “We now can use artificial intelligence to predict how any chemical is going to smell to humans, ” the researchers say.

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Red Lines and Policies – A Last Resort for Leaders

N2Growth Blog

response to Syrian chemical weapons dominates this week’s news. Thankfully, most of our problems are simpler than the President’s, but the Syria puzzle exposes the risk of one leadership tactic–leaders who draw red lines are likely to get stained in the process. By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth.

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Data Tells and Stories Sell

The Recovering Engineer

Early in my career, I worked in the plastics industry as a process and product development engineer. At the time, I had a degree in chemical engineering, and I had just completed service as a nuclear engineering officer in the U.S. I had a pretty good technical background, and I knew almost nothing about polymers. It was nice.

Chemicals 100
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Data Tells and Stories Sell

The Recovering Engineer

Early in my career, I worked in the plastics industry as a process and product development engineer. At the time, I had a degree in chemical engineering, and I had just completed service as a nuclear engineering officer in the U.S. I had a pretty good technical background, and I knew almost nothing about polymers. It was nice.

Chemicals 100
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Why Great Leadership Requires the Courage to Accept Pain

Great Leadership By Dan

It is, quite simply, part of the process of effective leadership. Leaders falsely believe they are required to be the Navy Seals of the workplace -- unemotional, unwavering, strong -- to be considered courageous, but in reality, we all have the power to tap into courage. That’s because courage is not something we are born with.

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The Use Of Ceramic Filters In Industry Today

Strategy Driven

This is concerning industries and companies who utilize processes whereby there are gases involved of a heightened temperature – especially those that are subject to strict emission limits. Filtration at high temperatures is something that is needed and thus applied in many processes.