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To Handle Increased Stress, Build Your Resilience

Harvard Business Review

The onslaught of mounting stressors include global challenges, such as climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil – as well as personal and professional challenges, such as illnesses, job changes, and organizational restructuring. Understand the root causes. Analysis alone isn’t enough.

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6 Ways to Screen Job Candidates for Strategic Thinking

Harvard Business Review

And fourth, they have a global perspective. What are the steps that you have taken during your career to become a more strategic thinker? Second, their big-picture perspective helps a firm avoid major problems and conflicts by connecting the dots and seeing the interrelationships between business elements.

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Identifying Root Causes Beats Quick Fixes Every Time

Frank Sonnenberg Online

A friend works for a global consumer-goods company that announced diversity initiatives that included setting goals to add both women and minorities at assorted levels of the organization, including director and executive levels.

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