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Virtual Visionaries: Harnessing Virtual Executive Coaching for Modern Leaders

N2Growth Blog

This eliminates the need for travel, making it an efficient and time-saving option. Without the physical presence and non-verbal cues, leveraging technology to bridge this gap becomes essential. One key aspect of the science behind virtual executive coaching is using technology to bridge the gap between coach and client.

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Expedia Layoffs To Affect 9% Of Workforce In a Bid To Refocus Resources

HR Digest

The travel platform had been hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic as the travel bans cut sharply into their business earnings, but the company made a clean comeback soon after, with their annual revenue for 2023 growing to $12.8 billion USD, marking a 10 percent year-over-year growth.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

Businesses and society endorse busyness, overwork, and extreme commitment as the most valued traits in workers. More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever

Joseph Lalonde

They had traveled to find Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), a young woman who had built a Vibranium detection device. We’ve made a commitment to them. Fulfill the commitment! Queen Ramonda: Do not bury yourself in technology. Shuri was all about the technology. Technology was her safe place.

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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2020

Leading Blog

Rocket science is often celebrated as the ultimate triumph of technology. It's the same thought process that enabled Neil Armstrong to take his giant leap for mankind, that allows spacecraft to travel millions of miles through outer space and land on a precise spot, and that brings us closer to colonizing other planets. But it's not.

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The One Leadership Secret That Will Never Involve A Mobile Device (or Any Computer)

Terry Starbucker

“We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. I wanted to look into the eyes of as many teammates as I could, and “see” their commitment, and listen to their feelings and passions. Could we have picked all that up remotely with our great technology? ” – Sherry Turkle.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

And what about the stories we've all heard over the years about sick patients—whether infected with Ebola or COVID-19—who were sent home or allowed to travel because busy staff people were following a protocol to the letter rather than using common sense? Why and how do these kinds of things happen?

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