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Last Minute Office Christmas Party Themes to Lift Your Spirits

HR Digest

A slight twist on the classical passing-the-parcel game, in this game a big box is wrapped multiple times. Pictionary is always fun and can work as a bonding exercise and ice breaker. This can be played individually or split people into groups and play this like a relay. Unearthing the gift. This game is best done in groups.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. Catastrophe bonds are high-yield bonds, sponsored by local governments and issued by reinsurance companies, that do not pay out in the event of a catastrophe. During a time when the U.S.

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How to Coach, According to 5 Great Sports Coaches

Harvard Business Review

” In 2000, Bill Parcells , a football (American football, this time) coach famous for turning around underperforming teams, wrote about his approach, which is slightly blunter than Ferguson’s. ” Still, having turned three underperforming teams around, Parcells doesn’t believe in just shouting his players into winning.

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How Women at the Top Can Renew Their Mental Energy

Harvard Business Review

There is something about such “offstage” periods that promotes opening up and sets the stage for creating stronger bonds. Risk-taking is part and parcel of corporate careers, and few people, men or women, enter the top ranks of the organization without having made a bold gamble or two along the way.

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