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What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022

The MatrixFiles

Jim Collins , the author of several of my favorite business books ( Built to Last and Good to Great ), got to know Admiral Stockdale at Stanford University many years ago. Keeping my team and my family focused on what we CAN control : our work, our attitudes, our routines. I hope you find comfort and strength in The Stockdale Paradox.

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Should Universities Fear Millennial Alumni?

Achieve

For schools, alumni departments and university foundations, this research is nothing short of eye opening. As universities work fervently to secure alumni donors and preserve their existing alumni base, they are doing so during a time of obvious and turbulent change in the world of higher ed. We know that Millennials like to give.

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Should Universities Fear Millennial Alumni?

Achieve

For schools, alumni departments and university foundations, this research is nothing short of eye opening. As universities work fervently to secure alumni donors and preserve their existing alumni base, they are doing so during a time of obvious and turbulent change in the world of higher ed. The Millennial Alumni Study.

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Learn MBA Skills In 12 Weeks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. But we leave them out of our book because they are neither timeless nor universal.

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. What attitudes toward evaluation are present? So the evaluator has to consider if they are going to: Teach. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. are available?

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Rapid Realignment Teaches Leaders How To Adapt And Stay Focused

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Corporate culture is the product of four dynamically related components : attitudes, beliefs, values, and behavior. The fastest and most effective way to change attitudes and beliefs is to change people's behavior and show them the beneficial results of the new behavior. Rosansky is co-founder and president of LHR International, Inc.

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