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What You Can Learn About Making Decisions From a Baseball Umpire

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The importance of quick decision making for baseball umpires Almost every tactic deployed and decision made by the umpires is based on training, decades spent honing the smallest details in an effort to get decisions right as often as humanly possible. There is no definition of a checked swing in the game’s official rulebook.

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10 Things the Gym Taught Me About Life

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Nothing definite can ever come from something undefined. One of the key things I learned about purposeful and maximal training is that the best results come from carrying your muscle through the form you wish to create. When I least want to train , I step on the revolving stairs first. They die and regenerate.

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5 Good Lessons from Bad Bosses

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I worked very well with one of my first managers, but I was definitely one of her favorites. Teachable moment: Some supervisors have no interest in managing, and you have to learn to manage yourself. This article was published in July 2016 and has been updated. Playing Favorites. Ignoring Feedback.

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Skills required to be a good minute taker

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Not everyone can be a good minute taker – it’s a definite skill and quite often an art, hence the name of my course, The Art of Minute Taking. There are definite skills required to be a good minute taker and I’ve listed some of them below: Listening. Learn as much as you can about the topic. Always take an extra pen.

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Christoph Fleischmann of Arthur | Bridging the Hybrid Work Divide with Mixed Reality

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In 2011, he co-founded a machine learning startup and later went on to be an early leader at two VR companies, Inflight VR and Megaparticle, the company behind PokerVR. In 2016, Fleischmann founded Arthur Technologies, a VR-based dynamic collaboration meeting solution. What you’ll learn.

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How to Understand People’s Personality Types

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He came face-to-face with these realizations as his neuroscience research and training business began to grow. Listening to them, learning the keywords that they use so I can effectively communicate with them, is critical. Listening to them, learning the keywords that they use so I can effectively communicate with them, is critical.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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And it started reframing our definition of failure,” she says. Embracing and learning from failure Her father would even have Blakely and her brother do exercises in failure. I had been selling fax machines door to door for seven years, and I had learned a lot about rejection and how to deal with people telling you no.

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