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• Is your gun training perturbing enough?

  Mike Ox Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  "I’m very perturbed about that" was a relatively common saying when I was growing up. Today, when you say it, it elicits reminiscent smiles from those old enough to remember and confused scrunchy faces from most 20-somethings. But did you know that perturbation is vital for effective self-defense firearms training? How quickly we’re able to restabilize our balance, our vision, and our aim after being perturbed are some of the biggest differences between sterile range training and resilient self-defense training.

• Businesses plan for the future despite a tremendously difficult 2020

  Sumit De Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The year behind us was tremendously difficult. The obstacles we faced because of COVID-19 left most of us on edge, exhausted, and seeking solutions to unprecedented problems. The only obvious benefit of the pandemic is that it happened when it did, not 10, five, or even three years ago. Because of ongoing digital transformation across the globe, most economies were able to respond. Businesses stripped of their ability to operate face-to-face jumped online. Some of these efforts were smoother than others, but most soon navigated through the clumsiness and established streamlined remote-based operational processes.

• Boost from beyond: Business advice from a corporate intuitive

  Lark Gould Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Chicago-based corporate thought-leader and intuitive Dr. Therese Rowley has spent time at the top of the corporate ladder as management consultant and strategic planner for some of the biggest companies in the U.S., including Kearney Inc. and AT&T. Armed with an MBA and Ph.D. among other degrees and certifications from prestigious institutions, she now uses her learned skills and inborn talents to coach business leaders, CEOs and entrepreneurs as they seem to break through barriers seen and unseen toward remarkable success. I sat down with Dr. Rowley on the eve of this new year to find out what 2021 may have in store as well as what we can learn from the troubling times we are currently experiencing.

• CES 2021 highlights the federal force behind a new era in technology

  Lark Gould Civil & Government

  Managing an upward trajectory and positive environment that fosters the strength of U.S. technology companies is a topic that played large at CES this year. The world’s largest consumer technology exchange ended last week after it successfully executed the entire event online for the first time in its history. To offer an incoming U.S. government perspective on the current state of tech was CES CEO Gary Shapiro, who sat down with Brian Deese, President-elect Biden's pick to direct the National Economic Council (NEC), for a discussion of what may be ahead in leadership.

• 10 simple reasons companies keep failing at strategic execution

  Dan Bruder Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Whenever I hear strategy being discussed, someone invariably says that strategies fail because of poor execution. Other times, people say that execution is more important than strategy. But you could also argue that working hard and efficiently on something that is not part of an overarching plan does not create the best outcomes. If you Google the phrase, "strategies fail because of…," the top answer is "poor implementation." In their book "The Balanced Scorecard," authors David Norton and Robert Kaplan note that 90% of organizations fail to execute their strategies successfully. If 90% of strategic planning fails, is it the plan or the execution of the plan that is poor?

• Governance: Plain and simple

  Robert C. Harris Association Management

  Defining governance can be difficult. It is a broad concept with many influences. Volunteers are more familiar with management practices than they are with governance. Some organizations provide a hefty leadership manual to describe the board’s role. Others reduce it to a couple of pages with a dozen or so directives; for instance, the board is expected to raise funds, the board must adopt a budget, meetings are held monthly, etc. Hats off to the organization that can describe governance in a few sentences. Keeping it simple may avoid drifting from governance to management.

• Study: How job seekers’ social media profiles affect employability

  Linchi Kwok Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Social media plays an increasingly important role in recruitment and employee selection. Recruiters are tempted to check on job candidates’ social media profiles (SMPs) because SMPs could reveal more dynamic information about the candidates than resumes alone. By checking the candidates’ SMPs, recruiters can discover their real personalities, which cannot be easily achieved even through job interviews. Meanwhile, hiring managers can also assess job candidates’ social capital based on the size and the composition of their social networks.

• What to see and do in America’s newest national park

  Dave G. Houser Recreation & Leisure

  Hidden away in the COVID-19 stimulus package passed by Congress on Dec. 27, 2020, was a pleasing bit of "pork" that resulted in the designation of the nation’s 63rd and newest national park — New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. Situated in southeastern West Virginia, this rugged 73,000 acre stretch of Appalachian canyon land, coursed by the roaring New, Gauley and Bluestone rivers, has long been a world-class hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking and whitewater rafting destination. It was recognized as far back as 1978 as a national river based on its natural beauty and recreational features.

• Homework and independent assignments: Avoiding problems, encouraging success

  Howard Margolis Education

  Many struggling learners "hate" homework and in-class assignments that they need to complete by themselves. Why? Academics confuses, frustrates, and overwhelms them. Their struggles humiliate them. Expectations of failure send shutters down their spines. Ask yourself: Day after day, would you want your success to depend on confusing and frustrating work that overwhelms you, that you fail at, that leaves you feeling incompetent and worthless? I doubt it. Even in this era of remote instruction, where direct, in-person instruction is often rare, where struggling learners must often work alone, and where it’s often difficult for them to get the help they need, teachers and support staff can improve this situation.

• To know or not to know, that is the question

  Rasoul Abdolmohammadi Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Many organizations seek to use risk management to create added value, but their risk processes often have weaknesses or faults which affect the outcome. Some of them are not aware of these weaknesses, while others know very well what they are. A Persian proverb says, “The person who doesn’t know, and doesn’t know that he doesn’t know, will be ignorant forever.” It is clearly better to know our process weaknesses than not to know them, but how can we tackle our lack of knowledge? Here are three steps.

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