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How to Transform Positive Thinking into Positive Living

Rick Conlow

P urpose-Clarify and crystallize your beliefs on this one question: How do you want to make a constructive difference in this world? Lifelong education and training renews your spirit and challenges your creativity. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of highly successful people? Enroll today.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

Examples include defining and agreeing on new work practices, creating a blueprint for business processes, agreeing on changes to job roles and responsibilities, establishing new performance-management systems, training in new business skills as well as the more obvious training and education in using the new system, and so on.

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How the Architecture of Hospitals Affects Health Outcomes

Harvard Business

Unlike design thinking, an iterative process for developing alternative ideas and strategies based on understanding a “user” and a specific problem, social design addresses the needs of whole communities or societies. It refers to the design of relationships, including those that are invisible and intangible.

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Self-Driving "Fully Automated" Vehicles on German Autobahn; Supply Chain Math; Uber and Khan Academy

MishTalk

The cost of finding, recruiting, training and keeping drivers is steadily rising,” Shevell says. It is derived directly from carriers’ financial and operational data and provides a vital benchmarking tool for both carriers and shippers. Equipment costs are through the roof. A new Class 8 truck costs about $135,000. per mile in 2013.

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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

Best Buy responded by reengineering the design of its stores and training some of its staff to be generalists who could help women traverse their stores. And what are the benchmarks of success? Furthermore, most women sought installation help from store staff but were turned away. Q: How long does this process generally take?

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

The drop in construction spending is a necessary correction of previous overinvestment and is unlikely to be entirely reversed. In addition, official statistics may underestimate intangible investment (spending on research and development, training, etc), which has been gaining importance in serviced-based economies.