Recent Articles
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Law enforcement family stress: When counseling counts
Mark Bond Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityPolice culture still struggles with acknowledging the serious effects that long-term exposure to traumatic events has on an officer's mental and physical health. These events can be harmful even for officers who have displayed resilience during their careers.
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New app helping med students diagnose quickly in ER
Stephanie McKenzie Medical & Allied HealthcareThere is a new app that is making emergency medicine a lot easier for residents and interns on the floor. The Basics of Emergency Medicine app by the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association is currently only available on iPhones, but it is already proving to be an invaluable tool to emergency medicine interns and residents across the country.
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3 things managers must do to lead change
Adrian Davis Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementEvery organization is dealing with change — some more successfully than others. The linchpin in change efforts is middle management. Middle managers are the interface between the visionaries who decide on the change and the front-line workers who must implement it. If middle management is not engaged, the front-line workers will not be either.
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Pastors, make your logo smaller
Mark MacDonald Religious CommunityHave you noticed things are changing with communications? Probably not. You have so much going on that church communication issues probably don't register. So, allow me to call your attention to a change that speaks loudly to the church: Make your logo smaller.
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Is math a universal language or a foreign language for ELLs?
Holly Hansen-Thomas EducationWhat do you think? When asked this question, most educators will fall on one side of the coin or another. There is evidence to support the fact that mathematics is indeed universal. But at the same time, there are irrefutable challenges that English language learners (ELLs) encounter when learning math through English — for them a foreign or second language.
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How to choose a mezzanine system for your warehouse
Piyush Bakshi Distribution & WarehousingMezzanines allow warehouses and distribution centers to increase usable area without leasing additional space or moving operations to larger warehousing facilities. Your business saves on rent, moving costs and also possible property taxes.
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Time to resharpen that saw? Knowing what you don’t know
David E. Patnaude Facilities & GroundsWhat are the three toughest words for professionals to utter? It's probably not what you're thinking. It's simply, "I don't know." The economics team of Stephen Dubner and Steve Levitt, authors of "Freakonomics," have studied this idea of how not being able to utter these three simple words actually costs U.S. industry and business millions of dollars annually from people committing big mistakes.
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Kitchen and bath trends for 2015: Subdued elegance with a dash of cheer
Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesWith the fall remodeling season well underway, the design media have now turned their attention to handicapping the hot design trends for the year ahead. In recent weeks, several reports have been released that provide insights into consumers' and designers' emerging preferences and priorities in kitchen and bath projects.
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Questions for the board about risk
Dr. David Hillson Association ManagementIt is quite common for risk professionals not to talk to senior executives or board members. After all, they probably think we are technical staff or analytical specialists involved in the detail of the business, and not relevant to the strategic direction of the organization. And perhaps we think that executives are too important or too busy to waste their valuable time listening to us.
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HubSpot CEO discusses the new approach to online marketing
Marc Wayshak MarketingAs the first inside salesperson for PTC, a Needham, Mass.-based software company, Brian Halligan got his start cold-calling until his "fingers bled," he quipped during a recent interview. Later, when a venture capitalist enlisted him to bring the PTC playbook to a host of portfolio companies, he realized that old industry standbys needed a drastic overhaul if marketers hoped to cut it in an increasingly social-centered world.