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How to keep a workplace functioning in the face of layoffs

Work Life

The reasons for these enormous numbers are multifaceted, ranging from staffing and funding cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and their ramifications, companies leaning in to automation and artificial intelligence to sluggish sales. Engage those leaders and ensure they understand the reasons for the decisions.

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Maura Healey and Christina Romer reflect on how business can be more like government—yes, government

Work Life

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. to lead a private sector committee to root our government waste. Businesses certainly have benefitted from government; tech companies owe a debt to DARPA, the U.S.

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How to transform a boring speech and improve your public speaking skills

Work Life

When 18- to 34-year-olds were shown both humorous and non-humorous news stories about politics and government policy, the viewers remembered and shared the funny stories more often. For instance, you can redefine leadership as “where empathy and vision meet.” There is a wrong way to go about inserting humor into your presentations.

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The Rise of Women Entrepreneurs: Growth, Innovation and Challenges

Success

Systemic Underrepresentation in Leadership “Women remain underrepresented in management roles in the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Success Stories: Women Founders Leading the Charge Women entrepreneurs are reshaping traditional leadership models as we know them. workforce,” according to the U.S.

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Audrey Tang wants to save democracy with ‘pro-social’ media

Work Life

A prodigy who started coding at age 8 using pencil and paper because she didn’t have a computer, she began recording what she’d learned before going to bed so others could benefit from her work if she never arose. Her work helped raise trust levels in the country’s government from 9% a decade ago to more than 70% by 2020.

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Leadership Begins With Humility

Tanveer Naseer

For the Cherokee Nation and most organizations and governments, the greatest adversity is lack of leadership and the greatest opportunity, of course, is to develop leadership, in other words, to get some “horses and fishes.” Leadership defined The dictionary defines “lead” as “to take or conduct on the way”.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. The former chairman of Lenovo Group started the business with a $24,000 loan from the Chinese government in 1984. Lenovo is now the second-largest computer group in the world. Business best practice never stands still.