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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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HR’s Role in Building High Performance Organizations

Confessions of a Consultant

Schooled on a diet of constant firefighting, some HR Managers become ‘fix-it’ junkies and don’t have a good understanding of their role when the presenting issues are not jutting above the waterline. “Hey, Benchmarking. Spend time (phone/net/in person) benchmarking the best in class sites in Ireland and internationally.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

The main differentiator is that while consumer fitness trackers can assist individuals in keeping in peak physical condition, medical wearables have the ability to detect life threatening diseases, provide pain relief, manage chronic illnesses, and collect a variety of biometric data. Image: Pixabay. Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

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4 Self-Improvement Myths That May Be Holding You Back

Harvard Business

A recent report in the Journal of Management noted that of nearly 25,000 academic articles on performance, only a fraction include what psychologists call within person variance , which describes ranges, such as that between individuals’ top, average and worst performances. Myth 2: We get better by benchmarking ourselves against others.

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What Breaking the 4-Minute Mile Taught Us About the Limits of Conventional Thinking

Harvard Business

So the four-minute barrier stood for decades—and when it fell, the circumstances defied the confident predictions of the best minds in the sport. The experts believed they knew the precise conditions under which the mark would fall. It would have to be in perfect weather—68 degrees and no wind.

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In Praise of Extreme Moderation

Harvard Business

They take up a sport to find some balance in their lives — and get caught up becoming marathoners. Young Millennials, driven to distraction and depression by nonstop, constantly comparative online benchmarking, can’t unglue from phones-as-performance-measuring-devices.

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If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?

Harvard Business

This result offers a warning to avoid culturally biased phrases in general and sports metaphors in particular when you’re trying to be clear. In this way, using an objective benchmark helps pinpoint your subjective probability. (To

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