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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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These are ten occupations that PC Magazine predicts are the most endangered. For the time being, the bottom line seems to be, there is no substitute for intrinsically human skills. In 2002, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified a set of qualities they consider most important for learning in the digital era.

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Beyond Bronze, Silver, and Gold—Grow Success With Purpose

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Association professionals are seeking a support group to help them face challenges and to gain the skills to stay ahead of trends. In my way of thinking, this is the wrong business model. Our value is not in a magazine or even standards. Although the transition from the bronze, silver, and gold membership model is hard to make.

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Rediscovering Your Creative Spark During the Pandemic

Media Cause

Somewhere in me was the urge to try something a new way, learn something new, expand the boundaries of my skill set. In terms of expanding the boundaries of my skill set, this IDEO U course was just what I was looking for. More brainpower. I began to feel like I wasn’t just in survival mode anymore.

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Surviving As A New Nonprofit: 12 Focus Areas For Nonprofit Leaders

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According to Forbes magazine, one quarter of fledgling nonprofits will close their doors this coming year and almost half will be gone within three years of founding. When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting. High level of attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and ability to balance/manage multiple simultaneous tasks on your own.

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Success Stories From 10 Successful Entrepreneurs From Around The World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Susanna has a big techie network, as an early community leader at the pivotal publication Wired and then on the staff of Macworld , PCWorld and Outside magazines. The Guardian : Turns empathy into a lens to better serve customers.

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The Lessons From 10 Entrepreneurs From Around The World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Susanna has a big techie network, as an early community leader at the pivotal publication Wired and then on the staff of Macworld , PCWorld and Outside magazines. The Guardian : Turns empathy into a lens to better serve customers.

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