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Quick and easy tricks to sharpen your focus
Lisa Mulcahy Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementConcentration — it's the key element you need in order to do your very best work for your organization. Yet, even the most dedicated managers can get distracted from time to time. Between those emails you think you must answer right this second, the unexpected fire on a project you needed to put out an hour ago, or responding to pressing questions from your staff, your attention is being pulled in many directions. Want to reboot your focus immediately, so you can do an amazing job on that important report or presentation that's waiting on your desk?
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Tighter opioid laws may not work
Jason Poquette PharmaceuticalMore restrictive laws surrounding opioid prescriptions do not always have the results they intended. That appears to be the conclusion of a study published recently in a JAMA Surgery article dated Aug. 22. The study focused on the impact of the October 2014 change of hydrocodone products from Schedule III to Schedule II. The law intended to reduce the total quantity of hydrocodone prescribing, and it did. The number of hydrocodone products (HCP) prescribed across the nation declined significantly. But the recent study noted that the schedule change appears to have resulted in a slight increase in the amount of opioids prescribed initially.
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Beware of the slippery job candidate
Lloyd Princeton Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesAnyone trying to hire in today’s architecture and design community knows how challenging it can be to find good employees. As the pool of high-quality candidates shrinks, some less than desirable ones are making the rounds, hoping the odds will be in their favor. Employers need to be extra vigilant to ensure they make a good hire. Lately, in our firm, we have seen a proliferation in certain types of unsuitable candidates.
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The real reasons you can’t fill jobs, and how to change them
Roberta Matuson Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementI've been sitting back watching as leaders continue to fill up LinkedIn threads with "We’re Hiring!" posts. The same leaders do this day in and day out, which tells me this strategy isn’t working. Would you continue to solicit for new clients and customers the same way if you discovered what you were doing was not resulting in new prospects? Of course not! Yet, here we are. Let me share with you why you can't fill jobs and what you can do to change this.
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The environmental rule changes that will impact us the most
Michelle R. Matisons Waste Management & EnvironmentalEven the most diligent climate change policy trackers are having a hard time keeping abreast of recent changes at the federal level. Apparently, the replacement of Scott Pruitt with former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not yielded new results when it comes to the big environmental picture. So far, 46 environmental rules have been overturned by the Trump administration, with another 30 proposed rollbacks waiting in the wings. The EPA itself is responsible for one-third of these changes.
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There is no such thing as instant coffee
Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementYou and I have been born into an accelerating world. Travel that took a week by horseback two centuries ago is now competed in a few hours in the air-conditioned comfort of your car. Just 10 years ago, the two-hour meeting you had in the next time zone that required flights and overnights is now completed in two hours, plus two minutes for the setup and tear down of a GoToMeeting session. Email, smartphones, internet, Skype, social media…everything is happening faster and faster. We’ve become so used to speed that we actually believe there is something called instant coffee.
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New study suggests progress in graft survival is slowing down
Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied HealthcareThe last 30 years have seen significant improvements in the lifespan of a transplanted kidney, but improvements in organ transplant survival in the U.S. and Europe have slowed recently, says a new international study. Predictably, this has researchers worried. Specifically, the study found that between 1986 and 1995, 75 percent of transplanted organs were still functioning five years after transplantation. The five-year kidney survival rate had reached 84 percent between 2006 and 2015.
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Urban regeneration: The takeover of ‘cappuccino urbanism’
Lucy Wallwork Construction & Building MaterialsCitizens of "regenerated" districts will find the sight of yet another boutique café opening up on their local main street familiar. But as the pavements in the "thriving" cities of the West fill up simultaneously with cappuccino vendors and a growing homeless population, the cognitive dissonance becomes hard to ignore. Some are starting to ask if what has become known as "cappuccino urbanism" papers over a shallow approach to urban regeneration and belies a crucial lack of imagination.
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3 church communication myths
Mark MacDonald Religious CommunityChurch communication is a popular topic in the church world. But the expectations of how to fix communication are often overinflated. They're not a cure-all. In fact, effective communication takes time as the correct messages are produced consistently. Producing the right messages takes talent and skill, especially when consistency is required. Here are three church communication myths that need to be understood.
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Everything you need to know about Gen Z
Emma Fitzpatrick MarketingWhile millennials have dominated headlines and infatuated marketers for years, they’re a bit old hat now. The oldest millennials are well into adulthood, age 37 and proud homeowners, while even the youngest millennials, age 22, have already graduated college. Now, it’s time for them to step aside so that we can focus on the trendy, new generation — Gen Z. By 2020, in just two years, they’re predicted to become the largest generation of consumers, according to Fast Company.