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Privately Educated People Much More Likely To Vote Conservative

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers tracked nearly 7,000 people who were each born in 1970 over a number of decades to see whether those educated privately had different voting behaviors in the elections between 1997 and 2010 than those educated in state schools. Within this sample, a mere 3.0% (3.3% Furthermore, 6.2% (6.8%

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WHE17: The Cost of Medical Errors: Educating Employees about Patient Safety | with Leah Binder from The Leapfrog Group

Engaging Leader

How can you educate your employees about patient safety and influence them to choose the hospitals with a better track record in terms of safety, quality, and value? You probably know about this unfortunate fact of life in health care, but do your employees? In 2013, 1437 hospitals across the country completed The Leapfrog Hospital Survey.

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The Rise Of Hybrid Self-Employment

The Horizons Tracker

In 2001 Dan Pink made the case for the “free agent nation”, whereby we would increasingly be self-employed individuals using web-based technologies to make contacts and deliver our services. million such people in 2001, but by 2016 this had risen to 3.39 The study shows that there were 2.46 ” Frequent switching.

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Does Having A Black CEO Help Firm Performance?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers examined the performance of around 5,000 CEOs who had been appointed between 2001 and 2020. “For example, the Black CEOs in our study had more years of education, a greater number of advanced degrees, and a higher likelihood of being educated at elite universities.”

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Change is a Double-Edged Sword

Lead Change Blog

One of my favorite change quotes comes from a book by Michael Fullan, a Canadian expert on educational change, who wrote in Leading in a Culture of Change [2001]: “Change is a double-edged sword. The process was painful, and at times very messy, but it eventually delivered a creative and innovative solution.

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Is Being A Digital Nomad Only Possible If You Work In A City?

The Horizons Tracker

The “Free Agent Nation” first proposed by Dan Pink in 2001 was finally here. ” Dominating the market These factors mean that as well as the agglomeration effect ensuring that cities tend to dominate both innovation and economic activity, they also attract the majority of remote platform work.

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The Rise In Portfolio Careers

The Horizons Tracker

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001. “Alternative workers, who accounted for 15.7% of employment in 2019, grew at a rate higher than the average for overall employment,” the authors say.

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