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Do Young People Just Need To Have A Dream?

The Horizons Tracker

The data includes information on the childhood environment of each participant, including their aspirations as a youngster, and the career and financial progress they made through their adult life. “This cannot be explained solely by the differences in family income or in participants’ abilities. Raising opportunities.

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Research Shows The Benefits Of A 4-Day Week

The Horizons Tracker

A new report from the University of Cambridge provides perhaps the most comprehensive analysis of the pros and cons of the approach to date. During the trial period, sick days were reduced by 65% and the number of employees leaving participating organizations fell by 57% compared to the same period the previous year.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The team helps further define the vision and participates in setting goals. Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. These leaders never micro-manage.

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Can better management and leadership nurse the NHS back to health?

Chartered Management Institute

Intriguingly, it also has an operational team largely made up of Chartered Managers. Deputy chief operating officer Rachael Birks CMgr FCMI gets involved and calls a swift impromptu meeting to find a suitable bed within her orbit at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. It's an everyday story from the NHS playbook.

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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

A Science article reports on an experiment by Timothy Wilson, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Participants were left alone in a lab room for 15 minutes with no devices, pens, or reading material. Busyness is highly valued. It’s seen as a measure of our productivity — even our worth.

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Is The Gig Economy Set To Disrupt The Legal Profession?

The Horizons Tracker

A report from the Centre for Research on Self-Employment (CRSE) highlights how many of the 4.8 The study reveals that there are around 100 online platforms operating in the country for lawyers and other legal professionals to offer their services.

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Cultural Stereotypes May Make You a Less Ethical Negotiator

Harvard Business Review

Are people more ethical or less ethical when they negotiate with a foreigner instead of a fellow countryman? and China, conducted with coauthor Chao Wang, we looked at how likely people were to use unethical or ethically questionable tactics, like telling lies or offering bribes, depending on who they were negotiating with.

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