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How Can Office Design Help To Rebuild Working Relationships?

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The built environment shapes behaviors. The built environment is a stage for human activity, but it also shapes behaviors. © Copyright Andrew Rugge. Collaboration takes many forms Different kinds of collaboration call for different tools and settings. Courtesy Perkins Eastman. What is rapport?

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Rule No. 1 of Workplace Inclusion: It Only Works if Everyone Buys In

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“Long-standing research on tokenism,” she said, citing research that Rosabeth Moss Kanter conducted in the 1970s at Harvard Business School, “has shown that when you’re the only or one of the few of a historically underrepresented group in a work environment, it can have a profound impact on your workplace experience.

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Matt Richtel’s New Book Explores the Emotional Balance Between Creativity and Stability

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In brief, the idea is that new forms of life and new ideas are almost always destined to fail. When viruses or bacteria mutate by accident, and when new combinations of cells emerge inside our bodies, these cells almost always die because they don’t fit as well into the environment as the forms of life that came before.

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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: A New Book Explores Language Used in the Workplace and How We Can Improve

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It’s one thing to read a definition of racism in a book, and quite another to know if you currently work in an environment that is racist. These slights can take the form of offhand comments, jokes, backhanded compliments or insults. It can take the form of microaggressions or just plain aggression. It can be overt or subtle.

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How to Improve Your Neuroplasticity for Business Growth

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The changes occur as a result of your behavior, environment or neural processes. It is continuously forming new (or strengthing exsisting) neural connections throughout life. Sleep, hydration, physical movement and good nutrition are good for creating a healthy brain environment! . It's Time to Listen #Mindset .

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AI presents us with a chance to rediscover what it means to be human

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Some image creators and copyright owners are already taking a stand against the way AI generates its imagery, including Getty who are suing one firm for scraping content as raw material. The creations that see the light of day in the form of pigment or pixels or breakthrough businesses are the result of these mysterious inner workings.

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How to Successfully Run Virtual Events

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Encourage participation, as this is a great way to keep the audience engaged, but you need to keep the environment a safe one for all attendees. Remember that anything discussed in an online environment is now out there in the public domain. Observe any copyrights. Setting ground rules for participation ahead of time can help.

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