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More Than Childcare Needed To Fix Unequal Labor Market

The Horizons Tracker

But the system reaches its limits when it comes to mothers’ careers.” Using microeconometric techniques, the researchers delved into data concerning first-time mothers in western Germany who gave birth between 2005 and 2019. . “Public childcare—in its current form in Germany—supports a quick return to work.

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Snap Out of It! How To Own The Terms Of Your Success

Terry Starbucker

She spent the first 10 years of her business as a consultant to large companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab and Cisco Systems, where she worked with thousands of executives, managers and employees.

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

In 2005, he brought his experience and insights into the performance of engineered systems to McKinsey and Company, where he worked as a consultant and member of the Operations Practice. There, he mastered the technical aspect of organizational transformation and process improvement, as well as the cultural side of transformation.

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What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

Strategy Driven

In 2005, he founded the company Fusion Systems, which created, among others high frequency trading systems for brokers. The aim was to create an open financial system that would not be under the control of any state, while allowing for quick payments and universal access to financial services.

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How ‘Swing Voters’ Influence Group Decision Making

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from the Santa Fe Institute attempts to take account of this complexity and develop a greater understanding of the pivotal components that underpin decision making in a wide range of systems. “We propose a generalizable approach for identifying pivotal components across a wide variety of systems,” the researchers say.

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Bell Labs Designing a New Phone System Using Idealized Design

Curious Cat

Ackoff: 1919 -2009 – Dr. Russell Ackoff Webcast on Systems Thinking – Designing a New Organization (2005).

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Disaster and Contingency Planning Lessons from the ICU

Lead Change Blog

That was the case for Memorial Hospital after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. My mom would probably have been a “three” under the Memorial “triage” system, at best a two. Human administrative failures and infrastructure inadequacies are not a match for mother nature sometimes. When Plans Fail. Theirs was 246 pages long.