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Virtual or Virtuous?

Alan Weiss

I just noticed someone on LinkedIn who has a little logo claiming “virtual certified.” Does anyone outside of HR care about a speaking, coaching, or “virtual” certification? ” Does that mean he was certified in non-reality? Or, perhaps, he just wasn’t “certified.”

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What Skills Do Firms Want in Aspiring Consultants?

Tom Spencer

Leadership While leadership is looked favourably upon by virtually every employer, it is especially important for consultants. Clear and effective communication is indispensable in ensuring efficiency and teamwork in virtually every industry, and consulting is no exception.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business

” There is a virtuous cycle between productivity and people: Higher levels of productivity allow society to reinvest in human capital (most obviously, though not exclusively, via higher wages), and smart investments result in higher labor productivity. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken.

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Zen and The Art of Diversity and Inclusion: Lessons Learned from the Appalachian Trail

Brimstone Consulting

I met and fell in love with, the field of what was then called “diversity,” one that has now broadened to deal more directly with inclusion, equity, and unconscious bias, concepts I now teach virtually with leaders across a number of firms. I was, as they say, “all that, and a bag of chips.”. Or so I thought. One foot in front of the other.

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How Technology Can Help Close the Gender Gap

Harvard Business

Here social media can serve as the virtual town square. These companies will also become more likely to serve this important market well, and become even more attractive to female employees, investors, and consumers, creating a virtuous circle. provide the means to invest in the top companies for advancing women.

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Is Google making the web stupid?

Seth Godin Blog

This was an extraordinary virtuous cycle, the one that opened the door for quality content online. Google’s original breakthrough model for indexing the web was realizing the power of the link. Great content earned more links, more links got a higher ranking, and there was an incentive to create more great content.

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What Trump Understands About Using Social Media to Drive Attention

Harvard Business

During the Republican nominating contests Trump vanquished 16 opponents while spending virtually no money on ads. No one has leveraged big-seed marketing and the virtuous circle of online and offline media to become president before. This offline/online complementarity helped Trump double his Twitter following during the campaign.

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