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Almost all of us suffer from procrastination. We keep delaying and delaying the tasks till the deadline strikes. This is the reason we are unable to work on long term goals as they don’t have a deadline. We like to think that procrastination is an inherent weakness which can’t be dealt with. Well, the good news is, it ... | ['Pomodoro Technique', 'Efficiency', 'Procrastination', 'Self Improvement', 'Goals'] |
I always want to be more Productive which means doing maximum in less time but I have faced a lot of hurdles and distractions in my path. Amal has introduced me to Pomodoro technique. By setting a timer of just 25 mins I had to complete 4 jobs and note down all the distractions.
Pomodoro Technique
What I did first wa... | ['Pomodoro Technique', 'Working Efficiently', 'Productivity', 'Efficiency', 'Productivity Tips'] |
Pomodoro ! Heard it for the first time, me too. Pomodoro is a device invented by Francesco Cirillo in 1980’s, it’s Italian for tomatoe. The device actually works as a timer and is used to enhance the efficiency of our work, at the same time keeping in mind our time taken to complete the task, the timer here is set for ... | ['Work Method', 'Efficiency', 'Soartwork', 'Hard Work', 'Smart Work Vs Hard Work'] |
My experience in information, communication and technology needed another pathway. Initially this was done with a Energy Efficiency eBook covering 60 technologies. This could help people with reduced energy usage, save money and save electricity. This started an unexpected transformation journey.
The eBook failed due ... | ['Website Traffic', 'Energy', 'Website', 'Efficiency', 'Transformation'] |
Need to steer back on track? Read on to learn 4 simple steps to manage your time.
You have a “to do” list. It’s a mile long. Somehow just capturing it all down on paper gives you a little mental release. But, now comes the challenge, how do you fit it all in? How can you spend your day working “on” your business inste... | ['Productivity', 'Time Management', 'Efficiency', 'Tips And Tools', 'Outsourcing'] |
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS
» CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Pay constitutes an integral part of the success of any organization. It motivates employees to put in more effort in their services in the organisation and this in turn reflects positively... | ['Job Satisfaction', 'Efficiency', 'Conflict Management', 'Employee Productivity', 'Organizational Culture'] |
How I Stay Productive Every day?
Background
It is interesting to see how the society function around us. We live with many kinds of people with various traits, activities, attitudes, believes, and interest. We can easily notice this if we take some time to observe two or three people around us.
Once in a while I lov... | ['Checklist', 'Self Help', 'Efficiency', 'Effectiveness', 'Increase Productivity'] |
Productivity and Efficiency! We hear these words a lot while some even try to achieve them. These words are related. However, their meanings are mistaken. Both the terms have a separate meaning and significance of their own. While one focuses on quantity, the other focuses on quality. Today we will try to understand th... | ['Focus', 'Productivity', 'Efficiency', 'Management', 'Organizational Culture'] |
We are not writing here for anyone other than ourselves. Ultimately my goal here is to identify the actionable steps that need to be taken that will result in us ‘Doing more’ more often.
The “Do” in this refers to three separate categories:
Health
Money
Social
Improved efficiency in these categories will result in... | ['Programming Life', 'Efficiency', 'Life Is Easy', 'Do More', 'Health'] |
OKRs are becoming an increasingly popular way to track team objectives & goals, although they don’t come with a one-size-fits-all method for reporting on them.
The Problem: Spreadsheets
From what I’ve seen, most companies are generally managing OKRs with a spreadsheet, which comes with a laundry list of challenges.
... | ['Jira', 'Project Management', 'Efficiency', 'Status Report', 'Okr'] |
Preface
Recently I have read the following in Jeffrey Richter’s book, CLR via C# (4th Edition) (page 368):
The Enum class defines a HasFlag method defined as follows.
public Boolean HasFlag(Enum flag);
(…)
I recommend that you avoid the HasFlag method for this reason: Because it takes a parameter of type Enum , an... | ['Csharp', 'Programming', 'Efficiency', 'Dotnet', 'Enum'] |
Photo by ian dooley on Unsplash
This is not a piece on minimalism although I’m a big fan of the movement. This is a piece on a simple yet effective trick on how to become more productive. I say it’s a simple trick because it seems like what everybody should know and do. Yet, the majority of the population do the oppos... | ['Minimalism', 'Productivity', 'Efficiency', 'Effectiveness', 'Less Is More'] |
MythBusters: Is it possible to be a Designer & an Efficient one?
It’s a known myth, or an unfair generalized judgment, that designers and all creatives out there are just free souls with no schedules or work ethic, when the actual truth is (at most cases) pretty far from that reality. Our daily work usually demands ju... | ['Productivity', 'Efficiency', 'Efficacy', 'Design', 'UX'] |
Standardizing your documentation and communication can have incredible benefits. This meeting notes template not only helps keep your process standardized, but can also save your project when conflict arises by documenting when key decisions were made and who owns action items.
The Template
The template is very simpl... | ['Project Management', 'Template', 'Efficiency', 'Organization', 'Meetings'] |
Follow me on Twitter for my thoughts on startups and venture capital.
I recently published a post on revenue growth benchmarking for startups. The data is helpful to benchmark whether your company is growing fast enough to be on the path to IPO. The data on its own, however, ignores how much is being spent for that gr... | ['Marketing', 'Efficiency', 'Startup', 'Sales', 'Growth'] |
JSON is a popular language-independent data exchange format. It is supported by many database systems and data science frameworks. Also, several document-oriented databases are centred around JSON.
JSON has four primitive types (number, boolean, string, null) that can be embedded within composed types (arrays and obje... | ['Json', 'Programming', 'Efficiency', 'Parsing', 'Research'] |
Confidence is Key
Before a Data Scientist can be convincing to others, they must believe in themselves and their own work. When convincing others of your findings, it becomes so much easier when your confidence in your work radiates through the conversations that you have. When speaking about your work with confidence... | ['Success', 'Startup', 'Impact', 'Business', 'Data Science'] |
Future of Work: The new bundle is being invented as we speak
Panel at the RSA Future of Work Accelerator, 12 September 2019
In the twentieth century, the dominant work model was that of the Fordist “bundle”. In exchange for division of labour and subordination, each worker was offered a bundle of benefits: a steady r... | ['Future Of Work', 'Impact', 'Bundle', 'Freelancers', 'Gig Economy'] |
The twin challenge governments face
I was inspired by Nesta’s compelling invitation to kick off their recent Government Innovation Summit: instead of feeling despair at the current state of government, let’s be practically optimistic and work together to bring about a brighter future. Sure, there is reason to feel glu... | ['Government', 'Innovation', 'System', 'Impact', 'Working In The Open'] |
Tale of the converted: how complex social problems have made me question the use of data in driving impact John Burgoyne Follow Sep 17, 2019 · 4 min read
The recent Social Outcomes Conference hosted by the Government Outcomes Lab at Oxford provided an opportunity to reflect on my views around outcomes and how they hav... | ['Our Vision For Government', 'Government', 'Data', 'Impact', 'Complexity'] |
Mission Rise Women Entrepreneur Summit, Coimbatore
At Meesho, making our resellers successful is at the heart of what we do. Not only is it a very important Meesho value that we live by everyday, but our true north is that every action we take is to make them reach their goals — whether financial or personal.
But who... | ['Culture', 'Startup', 'Impact', 'Social Commerce', 'Women Entrepreneurs'] |
This is an Impact Map — Source https://www.plays-in-business.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ImageMapping-ThePath-1024x468.jpg
The method in question is called ‘Impact mapping’, I have recently stumbled across this method and cannot believe why it is not spoken about as much, So I have decided to become a missionary fo... | ['Business Strategy', 'Impact', 'Product Development', 'Product Management', 'Product Design'] |
Our investors have been supporting Atlantis for almost three years, in which time the company has made solid progress on its journey from tidal power pioneer to a producer of predictable and reliable power. Atlantis has generated more than 21 GWh of clean electricity for the grid and created a pipeline of projects that... | ['Tidal Power', 'News', 'Climate Change', 'Impact'] |
Concept by Benny Z. |Written by Moiz H. 3/21/2021|
One of the greatest tools gifted to mankind, over the course of time is the gift of voice. This tool is so powerful, it led to the creation of marvellous empires, countries, technology!
This article will be covering the most basics of creating an impact, and will go ... | ['Public Speaking', 'Impact'] |
Sidney Hargro — President of the Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, stated in the report How Employers Give: A Look at Philanthropy and Volunteerism in Philadelphia, that “when companies engage in the community and with the nonprofit sector, they help improve the social cohesion of our region.” This cohesion bu... | ['Csr', 'Impact', 'Volunteering', 'Corporate Culture', 'Charitable Giving'] |
According to a January 2019 report, the employment rate in The Netherlands is 77,7% which is the 4th highest in Europe. However, not all the members of Dutch society have free access to the job market for a number of reasons — lack of high education, illiteracy in Dutch, physical and/or mental disabilities all contribu... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Impact', 'Social Inclusion'] |
Who else is as enthusiastic about affordable medications as we are? Our patients!
At Blink Health, we get pretty excited about discount prescription medications. Turns out, our patients do, too! Here are five patient testimonials that capture just how good it feels when you can afford your prescriptions.
1. I could h... | ['Prescription Drug Costs', 'Healthcare', 'Testimonials', 'Impact', 'Prescription Drugs'] |
With great power comes great responsibility — Stan Lee
I love watching superhero movies. When I watched Spiderman 2002, the phrase that stuck with me was Uncle Ben’s quote — with great power comes great responsibility. Doing a bit of Googling I found out this quote is also called the “Peter Parker Principle”.
I also ... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Marketing', 'Changemaker', 'Impact', 'Category Design'] |
To impact is to press closely into something. To push into, to drive. To strike against. To strike forcefully against something. To make a forceful impression.
Do we want to make a forceful impression? Do we seek to drive, to push to enable change?
Sometimes this might be an appropriate response. Yet we live in a wor... | ['Impact Investing', 'Syntropy', 'Impact', 'Syntropic Enterprise', 'Syntropic World'] |
Aleph Farms and BRF Partner to Bring Cultivated Meat to Brazil Aleph Farms Mar 4·3 min read
The partnership furthers our growth strategy of integrating into the existing global food ecosystem, enabling greater positive impact.
We’re thrilled to announce that we have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with BRF... | ['Cultured Meat', 'Sustainability', 'Cultivated Meat', 'Food Systems', 'Impact'] |
Photo from Alfah via freepik.com
“Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it because you can’t know. You can’t ever really know the meaning of your life. And you don’t need to. Every life has meaning, whether it lasts one hundred years or one hundred seconds.” Mahatma Gandhi... | ['Motivation', 'Inspiration', 'Success', 'Impact', 'Self Improvement'] |
I explained the idea in conversation with Eileen the next week. Though there are lots of apparel B Corps, most of them are small by comparison to EILEEN FISHER, with the exception of Patagonia (Athleta was not yet certified at the time). We discussed whether it would be significantly impactful to convene just the appar... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Vote Every Day', 'Impact', 'B Corp', 'Women In Business'] |
Correlation is not causation. Then what is causation? How can it be measured?
Causation is measuring the real impact on Y because of X. E.g., What is the effect of ad campaigns on the sales of a product?
It is critical to precisely understand the causal effects of these interventions on the subject. One of the main t... | ['Causality', 'Impact', 'Causal Inference', 'Data Science', 'Econometrics'] |
On Purpose London October 2017 Fellow, now Advisor to the Board President at C40 Cities
Pauline always wanted to work on the protection of the environment, but found herself in e-commerce gaining great management skills in the non-environmentally friendly fashion industry. This is how she managed the sector change.
C... | ['Sustainable Business', 'Career Change', 'Sustainability', 'Impact', 'Environment'] |
Thriving in an egoless environment: Thomas Choo, Senior Software Developer at Hootsuite
Recently, we spoke with Thomas to ask him about the problems he gets to solve, the best part about coming to work every day and what learning looks like at Hootsuite for developers. Read on to learn more. Hootsuite Careers Follow M... | ['Learning', 'Software Development', 'Impact'] |
Part 1: Why
Why did I start this process?
I quit my job without an understanding of what my next adventure should be. At the time, I was not able to articulate it, it was a mere “gut feeling” and a sense of curiosity that drove me.
What was I hoping to achieve?
In essence, I was hoping to secure a new job — one tha... | ['Purpose Driven Business', 'Career Change', 'Impact', 'Job Search', 'Edtech'] |
In the months leading up to the 2016 election, Rahel Petros and Rakshita Balaji noticed something change at their high schools. There was more tension, more division, more hostility among different student groups — even a few racial incidents, all amplified on social media. The tension was so palpable, in fact, that it... | ['Youth', 'Tips', 'Impact', 'Students', 'Education'] |
What’s the most important trait someone on your team needs to have?
I’m going to cheat and answer with a balance of three key traits: passion, curiosity, and respect. Based on my experience, the healthiest, happiest, and highest performing teams are comprised of individuals that are strong and well-balanced in all thr... | ['Leadership', 'Product', 'Impact'] |
Marketing for Good
When you picture a typical law firm advertisement, you undoubtedly think of 1–800 numbers, “Injured? Call now!” rhetoric and local TV ads. That may work for some lawyers, but RVL wanted to try something new and different — and let’s be honest, something less cringeworthy.
Instead of pushing the red... | ['Sponsorship', 'Marketing', 'Impact', 'B Corp', 'Corporate Culture'] |
What does the word ’impact’ mean? According to the Oxford Dictionary, an impact is ‘a marked effect or influence’ while the Collins dictionary defines it as ‘a sudden and powerful effect’.
If we’re talking about the environment of business and investments, an impact has a more specific meaning. Sir Ronald Cohen is his... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Climate Change', 'Impact'] |
This paper is intended for financiers and entrepreneurs who want to integrate the economy into their business models. Our model is based on the work of Bonding Curve enthusiasts like Simon de la Rouviere, Paul Kohlhaas or Thibauld Favre.
This paper is owned by we4sdg (we4sdg.io).
The Bonding Curve Smart Contract is a... | ['Bonding Curves', 'Sdgs', 'Token', 'Impact'] |
Tonight we will be wrapping up 8 weeks of the #MissionPrecision Bible Study with a group of committed Men online from across the nation!!!
I am praising God for the hunger of these men that are expecting more + > in Jesus name!!!
Will you praise God with us for ?
+Growing Deeper with God, Defining Truths Every Disci... | ['Discipleship', 'Impact', 'Growth', 'Community', 'Jesus'] |
It’s increasingly clear to me that those working in policy and technology need to understand one another and work together more effectively. Our ability to improve government programs and services depends on it.
I’m a policy analyst and researcher, a nerd and an optimist. I’ve built my career on the belief that eviden... | ['Public Service', 'Impact', 'Civictech', 'Government Innovation', 'Policy'] |
Photo Credit: João Jesus
In the first six months of 2020 I progressed professionally far past what I struggled to do in my career over the fifteen years prior. What changed?
The thing that launched me beyond past failures was not a big dollar investment or major news story or viral social media post. It was a group o... | ['Mentorship', 'Inspiration', 'Nonprofit', 'Impact', 'Jobs'] |
Today I’ve got a solution to something that nowadays many people are struggling with, i.e. ‘How do I start a conversation with a stranger?’. Often, people start with some random stuff and within a few minutes, end up with awkward silence. For example:
“Wow! So you like this color?”. “Yes!”
What then? It’s a Dead End ... | ['Beyourself', 'Conversations', 'Impact', 'Networking', 'Connection'] |
As I’m in my 3rd year of business school in France, it was required of us to do an internship at a startup. It’s at Tuki that I have now spent the past 2 months full of discoveries and new knowledge.
At Tuki, I was a key part of the market development side of the business, specifically within marketing and communicati... | ['Company Culture', 'Work', 'Impact', 'Mission', 'Tuki'] |
Spend any amount of time in a room of white philanthropists and you’ll hear the question “How will we measure the impact?” Usually it’s the first question. Of course it is — white people are used to expecting a measurable return on the their investments. And why wouldn’t we? In a capitalist society designed specificall... | ['Grantmaking', 'Philanthropy', 'Impact', 'Anti Racism', 'Systems Change'] |
Two weeks ago, Westwing, the Munich-based home & living e-commerce company, had its 10th birthday. Westwing is a company which has been a big part of my life over those ten years, so I took this as the occasion to update a little piece I wrote a few months back to celebrate this awesome company but also to celebrate th... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Founders', 'Startup', 'Impact', 'Funding'] |
Why a shift to Impact Investing will create big winners and big losers peggy vandeplassche Follow Mar 8 · 8 min read
Key Takeaways:
- Impact investing is not just about investing in Cleantech, it is about investing in companies with best-in-class financials and best-in-class SRI score across industries;
- Similar to... | ['Impact Investing', 'Capitalism', 'Investors', 'Impact', 'Asset Management'] |
Finding Your Purpose
For me, finding my purpose meant looking beyond the boundaries of self, family, and organisation. This is where the concept of “work-life balance” fell apart. Only when I looked beyond our social hypnosis and viewed my work as a platform to express myself was I able to find my life’s work— my purp... | ['Purpose', 'Discover Your Lifes Work', 'Impact', 'B Corp', 'Fintech'] |
We’re going to take a look at a few Amapiano artists who have made the biggest impact on a commercial level. The aim is not discredit other artists who have had a hand in helping the genre grow but to put a focus on those who’ve got the masses dancing and paying attention.
1. Kabza de Small & DJ Maphorisa a.k.a Scorpi... | ['Music', 'Amapiano', 'Amapiano Songs', 'Impact', 'Commercial'] |
Entrepreneurs, consumers, corporations, and investors alike are demanding a transition from an economic model that measures our collective success in purely monetary terms to one that also reflects non-financial components, namely the impact that stakeholders have on humanity and the planet.
We are in the early stages... | ['Social Enterprise', 'Impact Measurement', 'Impact Investing', 'Impact', 'Esg'] |
Crossing the chasm between data science and impact
Deep analysis is only half the job. Win trust with decision makers and inspire actions to deliver impact. krishna shrinivas Jan 25·4 min read
Most analysts have been part of failed projects, or have encountered the dreaded “I am not sure I understand it...” followed ... | ['Insight Data Science', 'Impact', 'Effective Communication', 'Data Science', 'Analytics'] |
For Women’s History Month, we’re featuring some of our impactful female students. This week, meet Olivia Rempe, a marketing major from Glenview, Illinois. After confronting substance abuse and reprioritizing her life, she’s thriving in the College of Business, setting goals for the future and using her story to encoura... | ['Addiction', 'Impact', 'Meet A Husker', 'Womens History Month'] |
Henry Ford once commented, “Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.” Wouldn’t we all benefit from Ford’s philosophy? Even more, if you are a high achiever, where you are genuinely opportunity seekers and go-getters. When it comes to achieving goals, there’s no stopping a high achiever. However, because ... | ['Simplicity', 'Productivity', 'High Achiever', 'Impact', 'Complexity'] |
Photo by Anthony Intraversato on Unsplash
What if our stories shape the way we see our world?
What if we are shaping our world into us versus them with the stories we tell?
What if I told you we are being taught this us versus them story format right now and often is it claimed to be the most natural way to tell sto... | ['Storytelling', 'Us Vs Them', 'Heros Journey', 'Impact', 'Social Change'] |
Covid 19 and Impact of Lockdown on Low Income Group Public
Once again in India, the corona epidemic crisis has started deepening. This epidemic has changed in front of us this time. This time its form is more fierce than before. The figure of those who die from Karona seems to be higher than the last time. Many such p... | ['Public Health', 'Covid 19 Crisis', 'Impact', 'Lockdown', 'Second'] |
Houston, Texas is the 4th largest city in the United States in the wealthiest country in the world. Yet the city is still home to thousands of people without safe drinking water. For years, Houston’s underserved communities have struggled to advocate for their water rights. The challenge: a bureaucracy devoid of transp... | ['IoT', 'Sustainability', 'Sdgs', 'Impact', 'Water'] |
Social media has emerged as an important part of 21st-century people. Platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Twitter etc. enable us to interact with each other. They connect us to the world. But every coin has two sides and the same goes for social media. Subsequently, different people have ... | ['Sharpnote', 'Social Media', 'Impact', 'New Blog', 'Articles'] |
Harvard in Tech Spotlight: Megan Starr, Global Head of Impact at The Carlyle Group Jess Li Follow Apr 13 · 4 min read
Megan Starr, Global Head of Impact at The Carlyle Group
I spoke with Megan Starr, Global Head of Impact at The Carlyle Group. Megan grew up on Cape Cod with a very sustainability-oriented family. She ... | ['Investing', 'Sustainability', 'Impact', 'Finance', 'Climate'] |
This is the second of three spoke word pieces I composed and performed at Ushahidi team retreats over the years. Have been working up the guts to share these with the world. Ushahidi has been a source of inspiration, this poem in particular focused on how we measure success. So often funders are exclusively focused on ... | ['Startup', 'Impact', 'Spoken Word', 'Poem', 'Tech'] |
In 2013 I became involved in one of my many communities, a special one called Enspiral. Formed around the mission: Turn a trickle of energy for working on the world’s problems into a river and get more people working on stuff that matters. Enspiral has become a popular reference point for many because we so desperately... | ['Collaboration', 'Impact', 'Community', 'Social Change', 'Business'] |
Communicating a message through entertainment can be difficult, because you have to be careful not to preach to the audience, while keeping them engaged with the issue at hand.
by ANUSHKA SHAH, KAVINDYA THENNAKOON
Originally published on 14th March 2019 in the India Development Review: http://idronline.org/seven-ways... | ['Communication', 'Impact', 'Entertainment', 'Civics', 'Media'] |
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash
I became curious about this topic a few years ago, when I came across a Quora answer on a question about how profitable working for Uber might be. The answer was extremely well written and included earnings calculation and if I remember correctly, personal experience. It came to th... | ['Ridesharing', 'Uber', 'Taxi', 'Lyft', 'Impact'] |
Update: read a newer, wider iteration of this piece, bringing in #opendata and the #openX community, at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-data-smart-cities-openx-community-aimee-whitcroft/ :)
Last week, I was invited to kick off the start of Wellington City Council’s Our City Tomorrow speaker series. The lineup’s am... | ['Urban Planning', 'Technology', 'Data', 'Impact', 'Smart Cities'] |
The pandemic has created a whirlwind of emotions for all of us. We’ve been switching between confusion, temporary relief, and anger every few months. Needless to say, the intensity of the situation has taken a toll on our mental health. This is the time to take care of ourselves — physically and mentally — more than ev... | ['Youth', 'Impact', 'Volunteering', 'Mental Health', 'World'] |
I first got introduced to social media in secondary school and didn’t really use it properly. It was Schüler VZ and I don’t know if it still exists but back then it was necessary in order to stay connected with the cool kids at school. The next one I was on was also a German platform, called wer kennt wen. It popped up... | ['Instagram', 'Social Media', 'Mental Health', 'Impact'] |
The problem of global warming and climate change has led to an increase in the use of renewable energy resources as a means to provide clean electrical energy whilst reducing CO2 emissions. The intermittent nature of renewable energy resources brings with it many challenges in relation to the stability of electricity g... | ['Renewable Energy', 'Renewables', 'Energy', 'Impact'] |
In the past twenty years, information and communication technology has changed rapidly, with the emergence of social media being a key development.
Why People Share Information
New York Times Consumer Insight Group research showed the motive behind the exchange of Social Media data. These include wishing to reveal va... | ['Technology', 'Social Media', 'Media', 'Impact'] |
For Pride Month, we’re featuring students who are making an impact on campus and beyond. This week, meet Nick Harp, a PhD student in the Department of Psychology from Knoxville, Tennessee. Through his involvements, Nick works to advance representation and support for LGBTQA+ folks at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ... | ['Pride', 'College', 'Pride Month', 'Impact', 'Meet A Husker'] |
We observed, Venus in Gemini and Mercury being retrograde and its impact….there are further many events like Mars in Cancer….Sun in Gemini…Jupiter getting retrograde …each of this transit may give some different impact on each sign and you may feel now what will be the impact …whether good or bad as with one transit it... | ['June 2021', 'Transit', 'Impact', 'How To Handle', 'Jayshree Dhamani'] |
Small Changes → Big Impact
The orchestra was always affordable and accessible, but that language started permeating all of their materials ad nauseam, like this week’s announcement about their upcoming performance season.
To “further expand access to performances” they advertised pay-what-you-wish prices, and they ta... | ['Promotion', 'Marketing', 'Nonprofit', 'Impact', 'Nonprofit Marketing'] |
Nigeria’s education system encompasses three different sectors: basic education (nine years), post-basic/senior secondary education (three years), and tertiary education (four to six years, depending on the program of study). According to Nigeria’s latest National Policy on Education (2004), basic education covers nine... | ['Covid 19', 'Schools', 'Nigeria', 'Impact'] |
Impact Of Online Teaching And Learning In Higher Education Projectclue12 Jun 1·3 min read
Institution of higher education have increasingly embraced online education, and the number of student enroll in distance education program is rising rapidly in colleges and universities.
Today’s students are exposed to a techno... | ['Online', 'Impact', 'Higher Education', 'Learning', 'Teaching'] |
Support Is All It Takes
We often ignore the little details and focus on the ones we categorize as more important. When working on a project, we channel our attention to managing our client, consultant, team, milestone and project scope. We direct effort towards implementing processes, managing performances, and chasin... | ['Appreciation', 'Project Management', 'People Management', 'Impact', 'Teamwork'] |
The experiential Lab: Collaboration, experiment and expansion
There’s much going on in these days in my life in what I feel is a beautiful transformation of what there is to come. Jeannette Meier Jul 19, 2020·2 min read
I am co-creating this amazing community that is transforming the way we collaborate. No one is cha... | ['Collaboration', 'Evolution', 'Impact', 'Experimental', 'Community'] |
Hi guys! My name is Sarayu and I am currently in Year 11. I am also an aspiring medic, just like all of you! I am going to be writing about something we have all heard enough of recently but it’s not just the general situation itself, but more of how we, as prospective medical students, have been impacted by coronaviru... | ['Medical Student', 'Covid 19', 'Course', 'Impact', 'Teaching'] |
Advances made in air travel has shrunk the world into the global village. Nowadays, people from all walks of life can travel in a foreign country for the sake of pleasure or work; though, the ascent of the international tourism industry is welcomed with dismay by many.
Right off the bat, Traveling impacts negatively o... | ['Youth', 'Travel', 'Marketing', 'Writing', 'Impact'] |
Motivational Quote: A new trend with great benefits on youth!
Picture Credit : https://speakerhub.com/blog/101-quotes
These years have been really marked by a new wave of speakers sharing positiveness around them wherever they find themselves. As joy and positive attitude carriers, theses speakers receive the title o... | ['Motivation', 'Youth', 'Social Media', 'Impact', 'Leadership'] |
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It was over lunch, in the busy whirl of Borough Market, that colleague John, referenced the most important feedback I had ever shared with him. The feedback for him was important to develop in his career — he needed to move from high impact to high influence. It reminded me... | ['Influencers', 'Coaching', 'Impact', 'Leadership', 'Careers'] |
The Impact Of sickness (Coronavirus) On Civilization, This is a comforting message to the world that faces a lethal sickness.
“Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individuality they would revolt with their whole being... | ['Civilization', 'Comforting', 'Impact', 'Sickness', 'Coronavirus'] |
Week Three Highlights
This week in OneTech Pre-Accelerator we were joined by Alex Fefegha. Alex is a partner at Comuzi, a small team of builders, thinkers, designers, and explorers using technology to build a better future.
Alex works with brands such as Adidas and Google as well as healthcare companies. In addition ... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Impact', 'Business', 'Entrepreneur'] |
In my profession, I act as a vehicle. This analogy helps me explain how I apply theoretical concepts to my work as a designer in marketing. I’m passionate about making an impact through design, and marketing is what makes me competent. As a marketing professional with a design background, I’ve found that it’s all about... | ['Creativity', 'Impact', 'Design Process', 'Design'] |
A friend of mine I play dungeons and dragons with likes to take his 20-sided dice and set them all together with the 20 sides facing up. When I asked him about this he told me that he’s “teaching them where their home is”. I’m fairly skeptical that his efforts are producing any increase in luck when rolling to kill ske... | ['Productivity', 'Webdev', 'Change', 'Impact'] |
Foundervine & Cornerstone | October 2019
Cornerstone 2.0 — The Scale-Up Program — Powered by Foundervine 🚀
In October 2019, Cornerstone Partners delivered the Scale-Up program, powered by Foundervine, it was an advanced 9-week program designed to challenge, connect and drive the growth of black-owned ventures.
The ... | ['Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Impact'] |
Lots of product teams use OKRs. Few enjoy the experience. In large part, I blame the myth that product teams should be set a success metric and then set free to improve it. Sometimes, that’s the right way to do things, but in my experience, often not…
Principles
Before we dive into what makes great product OKRs, let’... | ['Planning', 'Management', 'Impact', 'Delivery', 'Product Management'] |
Fany — Mother & Hard Working in Cuzco She wants a better life for her daughter Romain Sion Mar 21, 2019·2 min read
👋Hi Everyone,
I had the chance🤩 to stay a week in Cuzco 🌎. Every morning, I used to go to El Mercado San Pedro 🛒for my breakfast 🍊. Imagine, hundreds of small shops selling similar products in a not... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Travel', 'Ngo', 'Impact', 'Social Impact'] |
Monitoring and evaluation for civic tech: Part 1
Hi! I’m Merlin, Code for Canada’s new Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Lead. I’m also an urban geography PhD candidate and Senior Fellow with the Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance. Recently, I worked with the Ministry of Education and the Open Government offic... | ['How We Work', 'Monitoring And Evaluation', 'Impact', 'Civictech', 'Code For Canada'] |
Like a lot of people who grew up in developing countries in the 90s, I eventually grew somewhat accustomed to these kinds of unavoidable signs of poverty and suffering in the world around me. However, I never grew accustomed to the idea that we couldn’t create a new way of doing things. A new system that could, at the ... | ['Business', 'Nonprofit', 'Budget', 'Impact'] |
Here at BU we share the vision of positively impacting 1 trillion lives by spreading a ripple effect that starts with self.
The funny thing about this vision is when people ask us why it matters we all find it difficult to put it into words.
It’s like when someone asks WHY you love your significant other. Sure you ca... | ['Purpose', 'Coaching', 'Impact', 'Meaning', 'Life'] |
How can you, as a young professional, or a student influence policy and strategy? This is a question I see come up a lot, from a growing number of frustrated individuals and one in which I will answer in this article.
Read a lot Attend events Network Maintain professionalism Be authentic
Read a lot
The idea is simpl... | ['Impact', 'Influence', 'Personal Growth', 'Networking', 'Pharmacy'] |
I read, quite a lot. I feel blessed to have had a keen interest in reading , learning, absorbing stories, gaining new perspectives from people far and wide. This habit has saved a lot of my time from being misspent, a lot of money from being wasted and gifted me with lots of mental clarity to process situations and peo... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'For Life', 'Read', 'Impact'] |
When I joined Barnardo’s last summer, I had a culture shock. I’d been a civil servant for over 16 years, and had definitely been institutionalised; I didn’t talk about work outside the office, I didn’t talk much about myself at work. In the departments I worked in, the culture was command and control, and it was diffic... | ['Authenticity', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Impact'] |
Fundraising is quite inefficient, both for startups and investors. Founders have to run all over town to tell the same story to different people over and over again. Investors need to go through hundreds of pitch decks sent to them without being able to get a good intuition for the people behind the startup. We thought... | ['Investing', 'Technology', 'Venture Capital', 'Startup', 'Impact'] |
Innovation culture: how we make things happen at Sinch Sinch Follow Aug 23 · 4 min read
Learn why it’s important to let go of specific projects instead focus on your impact in a company. — Beatriz Zarattini
In environments that are focused on innovation, it’s important to constantly move and evolve. Here at Sinch we ... | ['Company Culture', 'Culture', 'Innovation', 'Impact', 'Make It Happen'] |
Lovebird lingerie Garment Manufacturer was established in 1938, a comprehensive garment factory combines designing, production and marketing . With more than 75 years of experience in textile, we always apply professional knowledge in our product and have gained very good responses.
We have customers from all over the... | ['Discount', 'Lingerie', 'Impact'] |
This blog was originally published on Startup Guide Blog. Written by Kim Oguilve from Maria 01.
Topics like sustainability and making an impact have been emphasized by governments and startup scenes in the Nordics since the inception of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. More than ever, now is an opportune time t... | ['Nordics', 'Impact Investing', 'Sustainability', 'Startup', 'Impact'] |
By Lindsay Burns
Increasingly, philanthropists and foundations are collaborating to do more at scale. They’ve grown dissatisfied with chipping away at the margins of long-term, intractable problems, and are looking for ways to affect systems-level change. Big ideas and big ambitions require working in partnership. The... | ['Social Change', 'Collaboration', 'Philanthropy', 'Impact'] |
Once again a title with a tiny little ‘you’ in it to catch ~your~ attention, but I’m gonna cut straight to the chase and confess: this is about me. So let’s skip the ‘you’ and ‘yours’, because I have no idea if anyone else feels the same way. There we go: I am scared about my impact. I worry about it. If you ever read ... | ['Fear', 'Overthinking', 'Existential Crises', 'Impact', 'Teenagers'] |
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is ‘We’ve always done it this way.’” — Grace Hopper.
Opportunity and mobility are two qualities that go hand-in-hand. There is no denying we’ve seen unprecedented growth in both, with a previously unheard-of breadth of career options for so many of our college graduates. Whil... | ['Careers', 'Impact', 'Recruiting', 'Career Advice', 'Education'] |
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