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Imposter syndrome in IT: Overcome your mental malware

Spiceworks

Let’s face it—in an industry where everything changes faster than warp speed, feeling like a fraud isn’t just common—it’s practically an occupational hazard. One minute y.

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Looking upstream: A path to unlocking low-carbon, circular materials

McKensey

Many value chains need to collaborate to create low-carbon, circular materials for complex products. This overview offers a guide on where to start for materials producers and downstream customers.

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Accelerate Your Success: 10 Elite-Level Insights for Administrative Professionals

Office Dynamics Blog

Discover 10 expert insights from Office Dynamics' recent webinar to help administrative professionals become elite, confident, and influential Strategic Administrative Assistants.

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Chasing the lost copper: Global scrap and its role in decarbonization

McKensey

Increasing circularity in copper could significantly lower emissionsbut first, the industry will need to capture uncollected copper scrap.

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The Memory Edge: Outlearn, Outperform, Outlast

Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

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How Leaders Are Tracking Workplace Success and Rethinking Automation

fm:systems

See the latest survey results about the evolution of data gathering in the workplace and the tasks organizations have chosen to automate in 2025.

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Aligning the value chain to decarbonize plastics

McKensey

Decarbonizing and building circularity into plastics will require alignment across the entire plastics value chain.

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Seeing clearly: Decarbonizing the flat glass industry with circularity

McKensey

Decarbonizing the glass industry would have a widespread beneficial effect across industriesbut first, companies need to gain insight into which levers are feasible and how to scale them.

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These are the 6 necessary skills that every leader should have 

Work Life

To be a good leader, you must do more than lead teams. You need to cultivate self-awareness , conversations, and relationships. Its not enough to practice leadership in the office. Today, the skills we need at workhumility, listening, and emotional intelligence are just as necessary at home, in friendships, and community life. Unfortunately, many leaders feel less confident when tough conversations or messy emotions arise outside formal settings.

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When building new businesses, culture matters

McKensey

A healthy culture can triple a corporate ventures TSR by defining underlying beliefs, focusing on leadership, and modeling and celebrating desired behavior.

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How to cultivate genuine self-awareness and propel your leadership

Work Life

Self-awareness is often referred to as the foundation of emotional intelligence , and its a requirement for exceptional leadership. When leaders understand their emotions, recognize their strengths and weaknesses, and hone their decision-making and communication skills, they build trust and foster better collaboration within their teams. This leads to better performance all around.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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The future of work is agentic

McKensey

The digital workforce is happening. Heres what it may look like when humans are working side by side with AI agentsand how to prepare now for this surprisingly near-term eventuality.

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The two kinds of people in the world—and why it matters for leadership

Work Life

One provocative assertion I often make when teaching is that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who have hearts and those who dont. Students and executives usually chuckle awkwardly at this statement, wondering where I am going. I then share that many leaders look at changing technology and changing markets and realize that a lot of jobs in their companies will inevitably be eliminated within the next few years, and its not hard to predict which jobs will go away.

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The McKinsey Crossword: Light-Headedness | No. 235

McKensey

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if youre looking for a quick win.

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How to Protect Yourself From Public Wi-Fi Hacks While Traveling

Success

Summer travel season is about to heat up, and for many people that means not only spending more time on the road, but also logging into public Wi-Fi networks. While the need to keep in touch (and post all your fabulous vacation pics) while away from home is real, modern travelers also need to be aware that there are unexpected dangers lurking across the shared World Wide Web.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Beyond cost savings: The global footprint of innovation hubs

McKensey

Global capability centers are becoming places of enterprise-wide innovation, changing companies services and workforces as they adopt and benefit from new technologies.

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These are some of the biggest financial regrets Americans have about their jobs

Work Life

When asked, Americans express plenty of financial regret, such as making big, impulsive purchases and spending too much to keep up with higher earners. According to a new Clarify Capitol survey of more than 1,000 Americans (including boomers, Gen Xers, millennials, and Gen Zers), they also have deep regret over not investing earlier. Forty-three percent pointed to that oversight as their biggest financial failure.

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10 Data-Backed Mental Wellness Activities for Employees (That Truly Work)

WellSteps

More and more companies are investing in mental wellness activities for employees, but with limited time, budgets, and resources, how can you know which initiatives are truly effective? The answer lies in the data. At WellSteps, we focus on initiatives that are proven to not only improve employee mental wellness but also deliver measurable benefits to the companies that implement them.

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Authentic Brands Group Offices – Shanghai

Office Snapshots

The Brief To create a premium-grade office that merges feelings of hospitality and retail into a functioning office that aligns with AUTHENTICs global brand. In addition to daily office operation functions, the workplace must support the flexibility to showcase different brands fashion products and host meetings, events, and celebrity guests. Concept The brands we connect with become a reflection of our Authentic selves.

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The Rampant Reach of Pharma’s Hidden Hand

Mad in America

From Patients for Affordable Drugs : “The influence of pharmaceutical companies on patient advocacy organizations is well-documented. Major drug companies and their trade associations pour millions into lobbying, political contributions, and funding for front groups masquerading as patient advocates all to protect their profits and block reforms that would lower drug prices.

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Schumacher Offices – New York City

Office Snapshots

Inspired by the distinctive patterns, styles, and legacy synonymous with the Schumacher brand, this exquisite loft space pays homage to the existing architecture while seamlessly connecting creative teams across multiple floors. Design : Float Studio Photography : Max Kim-Bee The post Schumacher Offices – New York City appeared first on Office Snapshots.

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Swimming With the Current: Michelle Rozen’s Tips for Becoming a Better Leader

Success

Michelle Rozen, Ph.D., specializes in change. Since earning her masters and doctorate in psychology over a decade ago (while raising three young children and working full-time), Rozen has helped executive leadership teams at companies like Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch, Coca-Cola and Pfizer navigate massive organizational changes. Her work in this field has even earned her the nickname the change doctor.

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Dickie McCamey, & Chilcote Offices – Pittsburgh

Office Snapshots

Perkins Eastman recently completed the new headquarters for Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C. (Dickie McCamey), a legacy law firm with nearly 120 years of history in Pittsburgh. Located in Four Gateway Center, a prominent downtown address, the firms new office spans five floors and embraces a forward-thinking design that honors its longstanding commitment to the city while supporting modern workplace needs. “The move to our new headquarters marks an exciting chapter for our law firm, sa

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Reading Retreats: The Ultimate Getaway for Book Lovers

Success

If youre a bookworm, you might take a book with you on your vacationbut what if you had a whole vacation centered around reading ? Thats the premise of reading retreats, which have popped up all over the world in the past few years. Reading retreats usually consist of 1520 people who get together, usually at some fabulous vacation spot , to read and relax for a few days.

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How a Colorado initiative is helping support workers in recovery

Work Life

At Odie Bs , a sandwich shop in Denver, recovery from drug and alcohol use is part of daily operations. Seventy percent of our staff is active in recovery, Cliff Blauvelt, co-owner of Odie Bs, said in a video testimonial. We try to provide a safe space where people can feel comfortable. Blauvelt has struggled with alcohol use for more than 20 years.

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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

Mad in America

I n this article I will be proposing an early framework for a mental health intervention called depsychiatrization. Depsychiatrization describes the processes by which a diagnosed individual learns to expel psychiatrically induced self-concepts and substitute them for more empowering and nurturing understandings. These processes are not, in themselves, entirely novel, as they have been a part of many alternative movements throughout time.

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