• Education: Now Also a Company’s Business
    This 10 min. read saves you up to 56 hours
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    Education: Now Also a Company’s Business

    Employers say universities fail to adequately prepare people for jobs – and find they need to be more proactive as a result.

  • Why Big Plans Fail
    This 6 min. read saves you up to 41 hours
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    Why Big Plans Fail

    And how you can do better than Kodak, Kohl and Communism.

  • #gettogether: How to Manage Virtual Teams
    This minute read saves you up to 7 hours
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    #gettogether: How to Manage Virtual Teams

    Engineering Lead at Apple and former VP of Product Engineering at Slack, Michael Lopp, offers the tools and wisdom that leaders can cultivate in order to lead in a virtual space.

  • #gettogether: How to Manage Your Time
    This 2 min. read saves you up to 6 hours
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    #gettogether: How to Manage Your Time

    Jeff Haden asked successful musicians, race car drivers, corporate leaders and athletes how they define tasks, sustain their motivation, and watch their small wins accumulate. Here are his insights.

  • Job Crafting: A Skill for the Future
    This 7 min. read saves you up to 25 hours
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    Job Crafting: A Skill for the Future

    The concept has been around for 20 years. Yet the skills involved in job crafting are more pertinent to career success today than they have ever been before.  

  • How to Downshift Properly
    This 5 min. read saves you up to 25 hours
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    How to Downshift Properly

    To ensure you succeed in relaxing, take the following tips to heart.

  • The Top Skill Remote Workers Need
    This 4 min. read saves you up to 24 hours
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    The Top Skill Remote Workers Need

    In a remote work environment, one skill becomes particularly important: Writing.

  • Leading with the Heart
    This minute read saves you up to 43 hours
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    Leading with the Heart

    Dan Pontefract & Michael Bungay Stanier on changes leaders need to make to guide their teams into better, more meaningful ways of working.

  • “Make Sure You Have 35 Years of Experience. And Not One Experience Repeated 35 Times.”
    Ken Allen, CEO of DHL
    This 16 min. read saves you up to 4 hours
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    “Make Sure You Have 35 Years of Experience. And Not One Experience Repeated 35 Times.”

    Ken Allen, CEO at DHL, explains what executives will need tomorrow to be able to "deliver".

  • Social Capital Is Like Money in the Bank
    Head Thinking Icons Set
    This 3 min. read saves you up to 23 hours
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    Social Capital Is Like Money in the Bank

    Building a network of colleagues and friends is an essential part of working and advancing in your career. Several techniques make it as painless as possible.