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Smarten Up: Hone Your EQ Edge

The Practical Leader

Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise. It has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

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Using AI For The Good Of Society

The Horizons Tracker

The authors believe this is a particular risk in developing nations, where regulations are not as stringent, due in part to the desire for those nations to attract the leading technology firms. The technology also holds significant promise in terms of lifting people out of poverty and providing cleaner, more affordable energy.

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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Seattle has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to optimise energy use – featured in this report on big data use by different cities. Of course, Big Data has also created new concerns about privacy. Of course, Big Data has also created new concerns about privacy. One example is the capability to slash energy use.

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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. If you are creating a technology empire, you will need a customer care department. Your best sales team will find energy from your enthusiasm and creativity. Customer Service Rep. You as the Leader and CEO.

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New Perspectives Required To Create AI Fit For Humanity

The Horizons Tracker

As technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have progressed, there has been considerable time and effort given to the ethics of this development. These efforts have been driven by a strong desire to ensure that the technologies function in a way that benefits society rather than harms it. Forming a bond.

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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

Setting the numbers aside, employers also expend a lot of time and energy in onboarding and training a new hire. If companies get better at hiring candidates who correctly match the work ethic, job description, and company culture of the organization, they immediately reduce the likelihood of these candidates leaving.

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The Prodigal Daughters of Business :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Of course, I would then start beating myself over the head with a guilt stick for not embracing a Madonna-like serenity in my new ‘round the clock role of nurse, short-order cook, janitor and taxi service for two little people with a sense of innocent entitlement in knowing their parents owed them a good life. They’d say ‘Wow, that’s great!’