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Oxford Inspires 2014

Tom Spencer

Oxford Inspires is an entrepreneurial conference taking place on the 8th and 9th of March this year. For a look at last years line up, and more information about the conference, visit the website. Tickets to the conference are now available.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

After the meeting, he called me back into the conference room. However, I also “felt with” the frightened people in the room and read that the situation in that conference room led to a psychologically unsafe situation for the rest of the team. I told the VP that they weren’t talking because of the way he treated them angrily.

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Lessons from Detroit: Three Reasons Why Your employees Resists Lean

Markovitz Consulting

In 2014, The Greening of Detroit (TGD), an environmental non-profit, was pushing hard to reforest the city after years of neglect. Not many companies give workers time off to develop public speaking skills or fundamental MS Office competence, even though those skills are useful in leading shop floor improvements.

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Artificial Intelligence – Utopian Dreams and Existential Risks

Tom Spencer

10] In a similar vein, the late Cambridge Physicist Stephen Hawking stated that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race”. [11]. What are the key historical milestones that have led us towards developing human-level artificial intelligence? The Beneficial AI Conference. 2016) CNBC.

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Lessons from Detroit: Three (More) Reasons Why Your Lean Efforts Fail

Markovitz Consulting

In 2014, The Greening of Detroit (TGD), an environmental non-profit, was pushing hard to reforest the city after years of neglect. Not many companies give workers time off to develop public speaking skills or fundamental MS Office competence, even though those skills are useful in leading shop floor improvements.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. What does this mean for workforce learning and development? In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm. Development, not deficiency, is motivating learning. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Saxo Bank's Steen Jakobsen Warns of Global Economic Vacuum, China Slowdown, Germany Growth Negative, 30% S&P Correction

MishTalk

Steen is one of the speakers at Wine Country Conference II , May 1-2 in Sonoma, California. The changes will during 2014 mean that: Germany growth will go negative quarter-over-quarter in Q4 (from Q3) World growth will come down from the recent 3.7% average expected growth for 2014. to less than 3.0%

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