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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business

I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work. According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express , Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016.

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Warning: Pessimism is Hazardous to Your Health

Rick Conlow

Exercise regularly. Develop your sense of humor. In addition, go here for our RealTime Learning & Training leadership and personal development website. Recently we asked this question of top performing employees at a dozen of our clients: what do you want out of life? Self-Satisfaction. Recognition. Great friendship.

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Managing your Energy, Time, and Tasks to have a Complete Day

Tom Spencer

Traveling and eating. During your first position and once you receive a promotion, you will be developing or deepening your foundational knowledge for your industry and job responsibilities. Industry and function specific learning will help you develop your consulting toolkit. Traveling and eating. Manage your tasks.

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Future-proofing your job against the robots

Comatch

In the expectation that we will soon be competing with machines, it seems worthwhile to train our “soft skill muscles.” – Anna Julius Even though we know the importance of this skillset, many people don’t know how to develop or improve their soft skills. Awesome, isn’t it? Take time for your relationships.

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(Value Stream) Map Your Way to a Better Post-Covid Future

Markovitz Consulting

Sample development The dress maker designs dresses in the US and uses contract factories in Asia for manufacturing. Design and development is an iterative process that broadly works like this: Depending on the complexity of the item or the idiosyncrasies of the fabrics, there might be a third or fourth round of samples.

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Future of Healthcare: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Tom Spencer

Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Director of Medical Virtual Reality at the Institute of Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, is using artificial intelligence and virtual reality to develop patient simulations complete with personalities and accurate clinical circumstances. Images: Flickr , Flickr.

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The Myth of a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

[link] Psychological Safety Myth Buster #3: Build Capacity Like physical endurance and strength can be enhanced with training, your capacity for changing your leadership habits can improve with development. Practicing small acts of self-control, like exercise followed by periods of rest, builds self-control capacity.