ORLANDO, Fla. – The healthcare business is an unusual one: Although trillions of dollars are poured into the industry, billions of people worldwide don’t have reasonable access to care. Part of the solution to that gap, explained Amazon Web Services Chief Medical Officer and Director of Machine Learning Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, may be found in…
The people returning to the office are not the same as those who left in March 2020. Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index compiles input from 31,000 people in 31 countries, labor trends from LinkedIn, and trillions of productivity signals from Microsoft 365 to offer a closer look at the year ahead, highlight what employees truly…
One of the purposes of good Human Resources is to prevent lawsuits. But your HR person and your employment attorney don’t follow you around all the time. So, business attorney Josh Joel, Counsel at Stanton Law, put together a list of phrases that often come out of managers’ mouths. When you start thinking this way, you’re…
Singapore, Mar 8, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – The ASEAN edition of the World CX Summit is set to take place virtually to explore the future of CX through re-engineering and re-inventing innovative strategies, tech trends, and possibilities in CX. The Summit will focus on the importance of digital transformation and how it can be…
Tens of millions of women have left the workforce since the start of the pandemic, many permanently. This has lowered women’s participation in the global labor force to a crisis level, but the impact goes even deeper. Since women leaders have more engaged teams and drive better job performance, the collateral damage includes loss of…
Many leaders aren’t aware when they’re using emotionally dismissive and potentially harmful language with their employees. Most of the time, unintentionally dismissive language comes from a place of caring. Leaders want to support the person, to help them move through their issue, to minimize their pain. Sometimes in an attempt to minimize the pain, they…
By Mark C. Thompson You deserve to be the next CEO of your company, right? Your track record certainly speaks for itself. At least, that’s what your CEO signaled during your one-on-ones. And you’re reassured by the camaraderie you feel from a few directors you’ve met. But just when you’re absolutely convinced that you’re the…
Sometimes the smartest way to deal with extreme aggression is to keep calm and say nothing. That emotional intelligence was on full display this week in President Joe Biden’s non-response to Russian president Vladimir Putin’s order to transfer its nuclear arsenal to “a special mode of combat duty.” Biden stayed silent in the face of the most overt threat of…
Oral health care should be more affordable, accessible, and responsive to the needs of communities, write the authors of a new perspective piece in The New England Journal of Medicine. Credit: NIH/NIDCR Americans’ oral health has improved over the last two decades, but disparities in oral health have stubbornly persisted and pose a major global…
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