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People seconded from other roles come up with the best ideas

Workplace Insight

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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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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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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Beyond the Music: DJ Steve Aoki Taps Into Tech and Brain Advocacy Through the Aoki Foundation

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Aoki’s face lit up when he told me this story over a Zoom call during his European tour. From biology to the ‘Singularity’ Founded in 2012, the Aoki Foundation raises awareness about brain health and longevity , focusing on new gene therapies, regenerative medicine and organ and tissue engineering and vitality.

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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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More Freelancers Feeling Secure

Small Business Labs

This is up from just 32% saying they felt more secure in 2011.    When we ask in interviews why independents in this group feel more secure, we consistently hear 3 things: 1.   This has led to a decline in the share of full=time reluctant independents from 34% in 2012 to just 19% in 2019.    2. . 

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