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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

These stars perform across a wide variety of fields, but they all have something in common: when they are at work they know how to think clearly, stay focused, and shrug off setbacks under very high levels of stress. Either way, this workaholic behavior is unhealthy and counterproductive for workers and for organizations.

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Why Are Video Devices Becoming More Popular?

Strategy Driven

The critical technologies making this possible are lowering latency and enabling remote access to video content. They reduce travel costs, enable remote work and learning, and make meetings more personal. Additionally, 85% of Facebook videos are watched without sound, stressing the importance of visuals in communicating a message.

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Studying Abroad Makes Students More Civically Engaged

The Horizons Tracker

In a world where living-abroad experiences are increasingly common and technological advances make cross-cultural travel and communication ever easier, it is critical that research keeps pace with these developments and seeks to understand how they affect people,” they explain.

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HR’s role in managing pandemic-related burnout

HR Digest

However, this sudden transition from an office to a home office has come with its own challenges–keeping pace with technology, self-starting, communication, availability, a diffusion of work and home life. Furthermore, there is the stress and worry of a disease that has lingered on with no effective end in sight.

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How Sabbaticals Help Our Careers

The Horizons Tracker

This is despite Bill Gates popularizing the concept of a “think week”, whereby he would shut himself away from work, technology, and indeed society in order to read and think about things. The Covid pandemic has seen both a rise in stress and burnout, and also the trend for quiet quitting that is so strongly associated with this.

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Research Shows The Health Benefits Of Nature For Young People

The Horizons Tracker

“Our findings suggest that spending time in nature,-which youth define broadly as being outside, being around trees and woods and greenery, can have strong public health implications, given that youth might not need to travel as far or spend a lot of money to access nature,” the researchers say. “We

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Great leadership isn’t about control. It’s about empowering people.

Brigette Hyacinth

It puts undue stress on employees. It’s no secret that technology is transforming the workplace, and unfortunately, employee morale is only getting worse. As organizations continue to focus on this technology, they are overlooking the most important part of the equation – the people side of the disruption. Have fun!