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Think Global, Act Local: Geopolitical Intelligence in Cybersecurity

Spiceworks

Geopolitical intelligence is paramount for effective threat intelligence in our turbulent world. Learn why the global context matters. The post Think Global, Act Local: Geopolitical Intelligence in Cybersecurity appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Two Out of Three Find Antidepressant Effects Not Worth Burdens

Mad in America

In a recent study published in BMJ Mental Health , a team led by Ethan Sahker from Kyoto University’s Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, alongside an international cohort of researchers, confronts a pressing question in depression treatment: What is the smallest beneficial effect of antidepressants that patients deem worthwhile given their burdens?

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How SaaS-Enabled, AI-Powered Platforms Are Transforming Legal Services

Spiceworks

Discover how innovative AI tools and SaaS-enabled platforms transform the legal services industry. The post How SaaS-Enabled, AI-Powered Platforms Are Transforming Legal Services appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Modernizing corporate-loan operations

McKensey

Inefficiencies and costly errors continue to plague syndicated-loan operations. Banks that invest in a modern operating model can win customers in this growing market.

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Ambient Intelligence: A Prescription for Smarter Healthcare

Spiceworks

Discover how Ambient Intelligence reshapes healthcare. The post Ambient Intelligence: A Prescription for Smarter Healthcare appeared first on Spiceworks.

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The final word on … responsibility

Workplace Insight

There have been many experiments over the years that expose the darker aspects of human nature. One of the most telling of these was carried out by two American researchers called John Darley and Bibb Latane in 1968. The two men’s work was partly inspired by a notorious 1964 murder in which a woman called Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death in public.

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Passwords: The End Is Coming

Spiceworks

Valentin Vasilyev of Fingerprint discusses the demise of passwords and the rise of advanced authentication methods for enhanced security.

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Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Others Collaborate With U.S. Government for AI Research

Spiceworks

The project is the result of President Biden’s executive order to launch the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR). The post Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Others Collaborate With U.S. Government for AI Research appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Less than half of executives consider the impact of organisational change on people

Workplace Insight

A new poll from O.C. Tanner claims that less than half of UK leaders (47 per cent) take their employees into account when deciding to enact business-wide changes. And just 44 per cent of UK senior leaders seek employee opinions as changes are rolled-out. These are the findings from O.C. Tanner’s 2024 Global Culture Report which gathered data and insights from more than 42,000 employees, leaders, HR practitioners, and executives from 27 countries worldwide including 4,818 from the UK.

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What Is Natural Language Generation (NLG)? Meaning, Working, and Importance

Spiceworks

Natural language generation involves computers creating human-like language from data, enhancing communication and comprehension. The post What Is Natural Language Generation (NLG)? Meaning, Working, and Importance appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Age gaps between colleagues linked to lower productivity

Workplace Insight

Employees who are much younger than their managers report lower productivity than those closer in age due to a lack of collaboration between employees of different generations, according to new research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in collaboration with consulting firm, Protiviti. An external survey conducted by LSE of 1,450 employees in the finance, technology and professional services industries in the UK and USA, found that friction between different genera

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The State of IT Spend in 2024: Computing Infra and Tech Staffing

Spiceworks

Explores the State of IT Spend in 2024. Learn about percentile curves and interactive assessments. The post The State of IT Spend in 2024: Computing Infra and Tech Staffing appeared first on Spiceworks.

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3 Life and Business Lessons From Adventure Racing

Success

I set my bike down, peeled off my helmet and grabbed a handful of peanut butter M&Ms, my go-to fuel during outdoor adventures. As I ate in this suburban St. Louis park, I looked to my right toward a hill that sloped down to a wooded area. Two men walked out from the trees. Their body language was unpleasant, their behavior even worse. One yelled at the other, “Would you let me just look at that map for one second?!

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12 Google Docs Alternatives You Should Try

Fellow

Yes, we know what you’re thinking. “Google Docs is my organization’s bread and butter, and we love it. Why would we need Google Docs alternatives?” First things first: Yes, Google Docs is a powerful, borderline ubiquitous text-editing tool with excellent real-time collaboration features. And yes, it makes it easy as pie to share documents and obtain ample cloud storage for your digital files.

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People should be at the center of your business strategy

Work Life

As a business leader, there is one strategy I always follow whenever my company enters a period of crisis and instability. And no, it has nothing to do with business analytics or metrics. Instead, I start investing more energy in maintaining my physical and mental well-being: meditations, physical exercise, and breathing techniques. As the CEO of the health and wellness platform BetterMe and a certified health coach, I can see how my stress instantly projects on them, leading to more chaos and i

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8 Stages of Employee Journey That Empower Employees

Vantage Circle

According to statistics , a great employee onboarding experience helps improve retention by 82%. The numbers show that the employee journey, from onboarding to exit, is crucial to an employee's life. The entire tenure of an employee needs to be wholesome and valuable. And to do that, you need to implement a strategic journey that the employees will enjoy.

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Forty percent of firms expect people to work from the office five days a week

Workplace Insight

Virgin Media O2 Business’ first full-year Movers Index claims that 2023 was the year of the ‘Great Office Return’, with 40 percent of companies returning to a five-day office working week, despite more than half (55 percent) of workers experiencing public transport delays of an hour or more on their commute. The Movers Index claims that businesses and consumers alike are doubling down on getting the most value for every pound spent amid the cost-of-living crisis.

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Your emotional brain can give you ‘fake news.’ Here’s how to make decisions with a clear mind

Work Life

As a child, my story defined me. When I was 12, my father went to the federal penitentiary, leaving my family poverty-stricken and me to care for my mentally unstable mother and three siblings. After my mother died, I adopted my 9-year-old brother and graduated from law school at the age of 24. While I have dedicated my career to fighting for the freedom of others, I have also wrestled with self-doubt and suffered from depression and anxiety.

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Venable Offices – New York City

Office Snapshots

HLW designed an attractive office space for the team and clients of Venable in New York City, New York. Venable’s relocation to the Durst Organization’s 151 West 42nd Street consolidated its New York offices into a single footprint; the move represented its commitment to New York City and its local clients, as well as to the wellbeing and workflow of its employees.

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“Get Over It”? A Response to Empower Parents to Repair Instead of Victim Blame

Mad in America

F amily estrangement is on the rise, headlines read, followed by many articles about setting healthy boundaries, communication, self-care and emotional maturity. However, a recent article titled “Growing All The Way Up” (the online version is titled “ The Words Every Adult Child Needs to Hear ,” January 2024) in Psychology Today suggests adult children estranged with their parents take control of creating the life they want by “getting past old hurts” that they may have with their pa

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Institute of International Affairs Offices – Shenzhen

Office Snapshots

ATDESIGNOFFICE designed the Institute of International Affairs offices with a variety of meeting spaces in Shenzhen, China. Although AI has many applications in research institutes, it cannot replace the role of human researchers. AI technology is used as an auxiliary tool to assist researchers in conducting better and more efficient research work. The creativity, thinking ability, and domain expertise of researchers remain the core of scientific research.

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How embracing a culture of experimentation can jump-start growth and innovation

Work Life

Economic uncertainty has drastically tightened corporate budgets. For executives, that means taking a closer look at how each technical investment and initiative measures up. For marketers, that means acute pressure to do more with less—and do it faster. Marketing leaders know that a data-driven approach is essential to making the most of their tools and creativity.

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Damaira Pharmaceuticals Offices – Panchkula

Office Snapshots

Design i.O created a sophisticated office for Damaira Pharmaceuticals in Panchkula, India. Design i.O was tasked with creating a 3400 sq. ft. office space for a pharmaceutical firm, situated on the first floor of their standalone production facility on the outskirts of Chandigarh. Specializing in the creation of top-tier drugs with state-of-the-art equipment, the firm’s essence became our guiding light.

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Thinking about work as a calling can be meaningful, but there can be unexpected downsides as well

Work Life

Many Americans—especially young adults—want to do work that feels meaningful. Creating meaning for oneself may be especially important as fewer workplaces provide good pay and benefits to their employees. Those who are religious or spiritual often want to connect their faith to their work through a sense of calling. But there can be unexpected downsides for those who do so.

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The FDA Warned an Asthma Drug Could Induce Despair. Many Were Never Told.

Mad in America

In The New York Times , Christina Jewett and Benjamin Mueller report on the widespread prescription of the asthma drug Singulair despite severe known harms including suicidality, especially among children—and despite a black-box warning added decades after the drug was first marketed amid early indications of the risks: “In early 2020, the FDA responded to decades of escalating concerns about a commonly prescribed drug for asthma and allergies by deploying one of its most potent tools: a stark

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Busting myths about women in the workplace

McKensey

Professional women’s progress can feel painfully slow. At this point, what’s really holding women back?

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BCO’s new research agenda sets out a new vision for the office

Workplace Insight

The British Council for Offices has unveiled its new research agenda, which will it says will aim to guide and inspire the office sector amid disruption. The BCO says the agenda is a direct response to the current and ongoing dynamics in the office sector. The publication aims to lay the groundwork for a new vision of the office as an economically productive, occupier-first, technologically enabled and sustainable part of our built environment.

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The State of Energy Organizations 2024

McKensey

The coming decade will likely be a defining one for the global energy system.

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The Value of Human Connection at Work With Camden Property Trust’s Cindy Scharringhausen

Great Place to Work

This HR leader sees interpersonal connection as the most valuable asset for workplace culture — something that AI won’t replace anytime soon. After the pandemic, many leaders see the need to rebuild connections between colleagues and departments. Hybrid and remote work have frayed the social fabric of organizations that were built on everyday in-person interaction.

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How to Small Talk: Tips and Conversation Starters

Fellow

Going to a party full of people you don’t know; attending a networking event and striking up a conversation with total strangers—depending on your personality, these might be moments that either get you super excited or bring out all your dread. If the latter sounds like you, it might be because you—to use a slightly dramatic phrase you’ve probably said before—hate small talk.

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Why isn’t your business making enough money? 7 reasons + ways to fix the situation

Ruby

Let’s assume you launched a business to make money. Seems reasonable. But how’s it working out? Are you in the red or turning a tidy profit? Are you somewhere in the middle, surviving but not raking in the dollars the way you wanted? If your business hasn’t flourished yet, you’re certainly not alone. Statistics vary about what percentages of businesses fail versus how many become truly successful.

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EVENT: Unlocking Women’s Leadership Potential with Sue Whalley

OE Cam

Please join us for lunch on Thursday 7th March at Apricity in Mayfair, London to discuss ‘ Unlocking Women’s Leadership Potential ’ with guest speaker, Sue Whalley, Chief People & Performance Officer, Associated British Foods plc and a Non Executive Director at Centrica plc. Most of us share the aspiration of living life to our full potential and in the workplace this often includes maximising our personal impact to deliver a great job and making a positive difference to support colleagues.

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Project Plan: What It Is and 6 Steps to Create One

Fellow

Drafting a project plan may seem like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be! Since having a plan is a crucial project management step, skipping a project plan or rushing through the various steps for creating one will put your project’s success in jeopardy before it even crosses the start line. Thankfully, Fellow has you covered with this comprehensive guide for creating a project plan.

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Motherhood penalty means many women in tech leave due to care responsibilities

Workplace Insight

Almost 40 per cent of female tech leavers cited caring commitments as a decisive factor in their decision to leave the industry, according to research by Tech Talent Charter. Work life balance was ranked the most important consideration, as working parents are juggling careers and full-time caring commitments, prompting the Tech Talent Charter and MotherBoard Charter to join forces to address maternity retention in tech.

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The 7 Best AI Writing Assistant Tools to Try

Fellow

You only have 24 hours in a day to make your way through your to-do list. And that doesn’t count the hours spent asleep. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a tool that could help free up some of your time so you could spend it on other things? Thanks to writing tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and other AI productivity tools , time-pressed professionals can now produce high-caliber content in just a fraction of the time required for manual writing.

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Upcoming Supreme Court Decision: A Crucial Juncture for Content Moderators’ Mental Health

Zevo Health

As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could significantly alter the rules of content moderation on major digital platforms, we are closely monitoring what potential impact this could have on the mental wellbeing of Content Moderators. These individuals are essential in shaping the online experience, yet their psychological health is often overlooked.

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What Is an Org Chart? Types, Benefits, and How It Works

Fellow

Knowing who’s who and who reports to whom in a company can be tricky. You may find yourself working closely with an employee only to not be one hundred percent sure who their manager is, what subteam they’re officially a part of, and what responsibilities are on their plate. Having this information can ensure better communication with these team members, set realistic expectations, and help build rapport.