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How Influential Leader Deborah Collier Helps Digital Businesses Thrive

Success

She has been doing it for decades, using her extensive educational background to create implementable strategies for businesses and governments for more than 30 years. DC: I also think we need more strategic development, leadership and governance, with a focus on ethics— environmentally and socially responsible businesses.

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History’s 5 Best Leaders + More Great Leaders from Business

John Mattone

Jeff Bezos, for example, has disrupted the retail industry with his long-term view and innovative strategies at Amazon. and among my executive coaching clients, Steve Jobs was an inspirational leader who revolutionized multiple industries, including personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

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Smart technology needs to start with people if it wants to get smarter

Workplace Insight

What these and many other moments like them show is that ‘computational capitalism’ is capricious: promises made about your data today will not necessarily be honoured tomorrow. Cloud computing is expensive and environmentally damaging. It’s their job. How should we respond? The one control that should be meaningful is regulation.

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15 Amazing CSR Activities To Boost Employee Engagement

Vantage Circle

Moreover, the global furniture retailer works to reduce energy consumption. Their technology has also revolutionized the Indian government's preventive healthcare system. They have partnered with nonprofits, organizations, and schools to improve computer science education and make a greater impact through technology.

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how do I respond to colleagues who are jealous of my furlough?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m furloughed, along with about 98% of my organization (~35,000 people), the vast majority of them public-facing retail. – I receive an additional $600 per week via the federal government package. And the media and the government haven’t done a good job of educating people about the math.

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it’s your Friday good news

Ask a Manager

My job history since has felt like a series of unfortunate events – highlights from different jobs include: “Color-geddon,” where the CEO insisted we completely redo a major rebrand after it’d already launched because his longest term developer claimed the colors “hurt his eyes” (one of his computer monitors was broken).

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ask the readers: what kind of work can I do that’s not in an office?

Ask a Manager

I look at my group of friends and peers: half are in strictly office work (banks, insurance, government, etc.) I honestly miss working retail because I loved working with the customers in person rather than just over the phone. You may also like: how can I move from retail into a professional career?

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