Recent Articles
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Nurse leaders: Creating an optimal workplace culture
Keith Carlson Healthcare AdministrationWorkplace culture is regularly discussed as an important concept in the world of 21st-century corporate life. However, we can sometimes feel most organizations — including those in healthcare, medicine and nursing — are paying lip service to the idea.
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The economy takes on a summer glow fit for a peach
Paul Zukowski Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWaiting for economic statistics to form meaningful patterns can be like watching fruit ripen. I mean, what's with the U.S. unemployment rate anyway? Sticking to 4.9 percent again? That's potential for a big yawn. The same goes for the number of jobs added nationally in August. The forecast had been for a none-too-exciting 180,000 new jobs, and the reality came in at 151,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Take a page from workplace safety to improve construction payment
Nate Budde Construction & Building MaterialsWhile safety on construction sites has dramatically improved over the last several decades, no such strides have been made in construction payment. The payment chain features a cover-your-(butt) mentality that has given rise to liability-shifting payment devices such as pay-if-paid and pay-when-paid contracts.
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The importance of financial education in K-12 curriculum
Bambi Majumdar EducationCNN's Heather Long recently raised an important question for American schools: Why is financial education not considered as important a subject as sex education? When sex education was introduced and made compulsory, there was apprehension as to whether this is a good subject for discussion among impressionable minds. Yet surveys have shown that this investment has paid off with teen pregnancies declining dramatically in the last two decades.
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Forget meeting perfection — just aim for your best
David Gabri Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementWe all strive to do our best if we want to succeed and thrive in the competitive field of meetings and meeting services. Those who are most successful have an ongoing goal of achieving the perfect meeting for both the internal and external customers involved. But is "meeting perfection" truly reachable?
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5 ways to diffuse political arguments at work
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWe're exactly two months from Election Day, and the closer we get to Nov. 8, the more prevalent election discussions will become in the office. Fortunately, Americans have the ability to openly discuss and debate candidates and the divisive issues they raise. However, not everyone is articulate or open to constructive discourse.
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Policing one another: New Orleans sets a new standard
Bambi Majumdar Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently announced the creation of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA), a new police-oversight agency to replace the much-criticized Independent Police Review Authority and set up solid and sure methods of enhancing the entire police accountability system.
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Cash rewards for error reporting: A bargain at any price?
Tracy Szwec Science & TechnologyApple recently made a huge announcement — no, not that one today about the new iPhone. The tech giant revealed last month that it is now working with "hackers" or tech gurus who find flaws in the iOS security system and come forward. Essentially, Apple will reward those hackers monetarily when they provide information about security flaws.
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Make use of your business-building advantage
Lee Ellis Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityAs a veteran of the U.S. military, you have in your possession the necessary ingredients you need to start and build a successful business — and they have nothing to do with finances. The success of a business — or any endeavor for that matter — rises or falls on the quality of the leaders at the helm. In that respect, your military training has given you a leg up on your competition. The values of honor, respect, integrity and accountability run deep in our military traditions, and those same values, properly instilled, can propel business leaders — and their businesses — forward.
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National Park Service’s 100th birthday is also a celebration of travel
Suzanne Mason Recreation & LeisureOn the eve of the National Park Service's 100th birthday, President Barack Obama designated the Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument in Maine as a national park. "The parks belong to all of us. This planet belongs to all of us," Obama said June 20. "We have to have the foresight and the faith in the future to do what it takes to protect our parks and to protect this planet for generations to come."