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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

After all, I have been there — I owned and operated a storefront business and served as an executive for organizations of various types throughout my career. I feel a kindred connection with those who own or operate organizations. Will you need always to risk your career, safety, or life? Ehrhart, K., Dean, M., & Kedharnath, U.

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Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks

Tom Spencer

Cybersecurity Ventures, a US research firm, predicts that cyber-attacks “will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021, up from $3 trillion in 2015” ( PwC, 2018 ). When developers discover a bug in a software program or operating system, cybercriminals have a window of opportunity to exploit the vulnerability before it is fixed.

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Climate change consulting: Does it have a future?

The Source

As attitudes translate into behaviour (in 2018 a record 32 million passengers travelled by SJ, Sweden’s state train operator), the organisations they work in and buy from will need to change too. Change usually drives up demand for consulting services, but will that happen here?

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Nurturing Psychological Safety in the Workplace Through an Age-Diverse Lens

Harmonious Workplaces

This tendency can have significant consequences in a workplace reliant on knowledge sharing and interpersonal communication for organizational agility, underscoring the heightened importance of fostering psychological safety (Edmondson, 2018). “A However, we both leaned in. References Clark, T. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler. Edmondson, A.

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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

This has not only reduced the need for checkout operators but who now packs the bags? According to Darrell West, Director of the Centre for Technology Innovation at Brookings, artificial intelligence has a 50% chance of outperforming at all human tasks within the next decade (Coats, 2018). 2018, December 28). Image: Pexels.

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Driving Digital Transformation in Aerospace & Defense: Recent Technology Trends

Epicflow

The technology allows A&D organizations to transform their manufacturing processes, improve safety, optimize customer service, system management, and, of course, transform military operations. After corresponding training, it took the Marines only about 36 hours to create this structure. Training personnel. . References.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Resilient organizations, ones that excel at change, operate as a team of teams. computer skills) training. Build Agility. Breweries pivoted to making hand sanitizers.