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UPS Settles EEOC Religious Discrimination Lawsuit for $4.9 Million

HR Digest

United Parcel Service has agreed to pay $4.9 million over claims that it discriminated against male workers and job applicants who wore beards or long hair because of their religion. The post UPS Settles EEOC Religious Discrimination Lawsuit for $4.9 Million appeared first on The HR Digest.

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Chasing Away the Monday Blues

HR Digest

From the euphoria of a Friday ending the workweek to the inevitable Monday blues after a weekend are part and parcel of work life. It can be knitting day, craft making, kite making, or even dancing, chorus singing; the opportunities are diverse depending on peoples’ interests. A workweek has its highs and lows.

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New York’s Fashion Industry Reveals a New Truth About Economic Clusters

Harvard Business Review

The Garment District’s agglomeration economies foster the freedom necessary for creativity to thrive, which is part and parcel of how great dresses are made in the first place. The great urbanist Jane Jacobs once remarked that “diversity is natural to big cities.”

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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

It’s about becoming aware of how the diverse internal and external stimuli we face can provoke automatic, immediate, unthinking responses in our thoughts, emotions, and actions. Visualize positive outcomes : As Daniel Goleman argues , positivity is part and parcel of focused attention.

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Why Young Bankers, Lawyers, and Consultants Need Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

The industry is even becoming more collaborative, as teams become global and diverse and the workplace becomes more virtual. That client, United Parcel Service, ultimately awarded our firm with the lead-underwriting role in the largest initial public offering in history at that time. Collegiality/Collaboration.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? Dynamism: A dynamic set of extended ties that evolves as you evolve.

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Outwitting America's Broken Political System

Harvard Business Review

By looking at these controversies, we can see how to spur America's diverse voters to support the tax and spending policies that, in time, would benefit us all. Consider, for instance, how the diverse, antagonistic interest groups battling over environmental policy reached a "grand bargain" in 1996. How was this possible?