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Transform Midlife Transitions: Embracing Personal Growth and Self-Discovery with Rajinder Rai

Consulting Matters

Listen in as we engage in a profound discussion with Rajinder Rai, a former pharmacist turned life empowerment coach, as she shares her midlife journey filled with transitions both professionally and personally. Rajinder recounts how personal health issues and her daughter's Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis served as a wake-up call, forcing her to reassess her life and priorities.

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How to Measure and Prevent Defect Escapes in Any Project

Johanna Rothman

How do you know when you finished a feature? You might have a checklist, to make sure multiple people looked at all the artifacts, and that everything is checked in. (This is easier if you work as a mob/ensemble, pair, or swarm.) In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) might demo the feature.

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Why Companies Can — and Should — Recommit to DEI in the Wake of the SCOTUS Decision

Harvard Business

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ban on affirmative action at colleges and universities, state legislation attaching diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts on campus, and more general attacks on DEI, companies are considering whether they need to change their DEI strategies. The short answer is they don’t. But it is a good time to review corporate values, personnel policies, and engage with employees on these issues.

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Risky Business: ChatGPT in the Workplace

Kraft Kennedy

While AI platforms such as ChatGPT are transforming the way we communicate, learn, and do business, they also pose major security risks. ChatGPT aggregates data from various sources and uses that data to learn and improve. When you enter something into ChatGPT, it becomes part of the global ChatGPT knowledge base. If you enter sensitive information such as client data or trade secrets into ChatGPT, that information becomes openly available to all other ChatGPT users.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Research: Why Employees Accept Lower Pay at Mission-Oriented Companies

Harvard Business

Today’s companies are likely to tout how their work benefits human welfare or “makes the world a better place.” Recent research suggests that this may come with a potential financial drawback for workers, as it can inhibit them from negotiating for higher pay. Over five studies, job candidates consistently reported that they worried asking for higher pay from these companies would be seen as greedy or inappropriate.

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Music

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: I spend a large part of my leisure time singing sea shanties in inner-west. The post Music appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Product and process

Seth Godin Blog

What do we get in exchange for our work? There’s pay, of course, and the satisfaction of a job well done. There’s stress and human interaction, learning and physical exertion. We get the drama of what might happen next and the delight of actually pulling it off. And mostly we get the day to day. I haven’t seen any data that says that working in accounting for a candy company is more fun or more satisfying than working in accounting for an insurance company.