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People seconded from other roles come up with the best ideas

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In their research, they used information on secondary employees serving at the National Science Foundation (NSF) between 2000 and 2012 and retrieved information on grants awarded between 1998 and 2012. The post People seconded from other roles come up with the best ideas appeared first on Workplace Insight.

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How Care.com Hires and Keeps Happy Employees

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Hiring people who lived up to the name of Care.com —an online service that matches families with housekeepers and caregivers for the elderly, children and even pets—was critically important to founder and former CEO Sheila Lirio Marcelo as the firm expanded. This article was published in October 2012 and has been updated.

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Bibliotherapy: Boost Well-being and Find Community With a Therapeutic Book Club

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Libraries are also an up-and-coming place to find bibliotherapy book clubs. Launched in San Francisco in 2012, this movement especially appeals to introverts. Rumble offers individual bibliotherapy sessions online, a free bibliotherapy book club via Fable called Readers Who Run With the Wolves and a subscription-based book club.

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The Leadership Gene

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I always plan to show up early for every appointment, just in case. I emerged from my stall to see a woman, a businesswoman, cleaning up—picking up the paper towels, wiping up the sink area. When I get up and leave a conference room, a public restroom, any space, I want to show my leadership by example.

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Miracle Mornings, Letting Go of Control and Finding Inner Freedom with Hal Elrod

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“I have a responsibility to use my life experience to help other people,” says Elrod in his latest interview with Brilliant Thoughts ’ Tristan Ahumada. He says that serving others ends up increasing the worth of the person giving. If you hate waking up early, don’t panic. Take responsibility for elevating your consciousness.

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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

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It’s a saying parents invented to beguile picky children into eating their crusts or preventing too many leftovers from cluttering up the refrigerator. Idiom dissection wasn’t how I had planned to begin this story before my phone interview with Daron Babcock. “Children in Africa are starving,” goes the dinner-table proverb.

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An interview with Admin Awards Founder, Sunny Nunan, by Executive Support Magazine

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To read this interview in Executive Support Magazine visit: [link] Sunny Nunan is the CEO and Founder of the Admin Awards in the USA, created in honor of her mother, a life-long administrative professional Can we start with a little background information? Where are you from and what is your background? Deep integrity? Generosity of spirit?