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The Flexible Method: How to Survive and Thrive Through the Next Crisis

Leading Blog

Take lessons from the past to constructively plan for the future. Care For Your Team’s Mental Health. Mind Your Own Health. Caring for yourself can boost your productivity, memory, focus, creativity, empathy, and decision-making—in other words, your overall effectiveness as a leader.” Negotiate flexible terms.

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Exposure To Different Careers Can Help Overcome The Skills Gap

The Horizons Tracker

“When you look at rapidly growing employment sectors like manufacturing, computer technology, health care and construction, there is a pipeline concern, as we need more young people equipped with the skills to enter these fields,” they say.

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The Building Inspectors, The Doctor, and Choosing Responsibility

Lead Change Blog

Who is going to take care of the very difficult job of marshaling enough respirators, masks, and personal protective equipment to keep health care providers safe and patients as medically secure as possible? Who is going to try to ensure there are enough testing kits available? Dozens of people were injured and three died.

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August Jobs Report 2023

HR Digest

Sector-specific Job Growth and Decline Job gains in August were broad-based, with notable increases in sectors such as health care (71,000 jobs), leisure and hospitality (40,000 jobs), social assistance (26,000 jobs), and construction (22,000 jobs).

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Parkinson's Law of Triviality

Great Leadership By Dan

Way back in 1957 Parkinson used the example of a finance committee spending hardly any time approving the construction of a nuclear power station, then going on to spend hours debating the construction of a bike shed.

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10 High-Paying Jobs You Can Get Without a College Degree

HR Digest

Software developers can work in many different fields, including finance, education, information technology, health care, construction, and more. Those familiar with surveying know that quantity surveyors measure distances and quantities between points that are used in construction, mining, and utility industries.

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The Latinos At Risk From Automation

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers examined occupational data from across six states and found a significant overrepresentation of Latinos in industries such as leisure and hospitality, construction, agriculture, and retail, which the researchers believe are particularly vulnerable to automation. In total, they believe over 7.1