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Zooming In: Top Strategies For Better Remote Meetings

According to a Strome College of Business study, more than 92% of remote workers experience “Zoom Fatigue,” which does not bode well for overall team productivity. 

There are a few reasons that online meetings are not as effective as in-person meetings: there’s less real-time feedback; many online meeting attendees do not use sound or video; and multitasking takes over.

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Your Vision Is Impossible If It’s Stuck in This

It is impossible to be the change you want to see if you are stuck in one Big RE. That RE is REsistance.

REsistance is one of the unspoken differences that separates world-class leaders from everyone else. If you want to stand out from the sea of sameness, you must be willing to get unhooked from resistance.

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Pursue the Vision: Power Up Conference Chair Does What It Takes To Help Others Succeed

The irony is that her vision literally stopped her from pursuing her dream career.

But it is her lifetime as a visionary that enables entrepreneurs and leaders to never stop pursuing their dreams.

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Shades of Gray: Leadership Advancement Tips From Former Ukraine Ambassador

“All of a sudden whispers become large shouts,” Marie Yovanovitch, former ambassador to Ukraine, told a crowd recently at the Chicago Humanities Festival.

Talking about her politically-forced firing from her position as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in 2019 after 33 years of foreign service and three ambassador posts, Yovanovitch adds, “This is not anything I imagined would happen to me.”

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Strength Finder: How Founder, CEO Turned Illness Into Powerful Global Effort To Impact Lives

Donna Cryer’s mother wanted a white picket fence surrounding an idyllic space for her children to grow up in Waterbury, Conn.

“We did indeed have a white picket fence,” says Cryer, founder, president and CEO of the Global Liver Institute, whose parents moved to Connecticut during the late 1960s when they were recruited as African American schoolteachers for local public schools.

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Be Uma: Founder, CEO, Author on Manifesting Your Success With Confidence

She has always liked moving fast.

At seven years old, growing up in greater London, Rita Kakati-Shah told her physician father and zoologist mother (who was also a classically trained singer and dancer) that she intended to be a formula race car mechanic or race car driver.

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Persevere, Be Authentic: Take The Lead Board Chair Lily McNair Advises on Leadership

“I was the kid who loved all kinds of things.”

As a girl growing up outside Trenton, New Jersey at Fort Dix, where her father was based in the U.S. Army, Lily McNair loved books—a biography on Harriet Tubman especially, plus a psychology textbook—and a chemistry set that taught her how to make little volcanoes.

The miniature chemistry set her parents gave her one Christmas ignited McNair’s love of science. Tubman’s story inspired her to live a life helping others. And the psychology textbook her father bought (though he had not attended college) showed her she wanted to pursue a career in psychiatry or psychology.

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Justice at Last? A Black Female Supreme Considered For SCOTUS Finally

She will be Black, female and serving on the highest court in the land; the first time in its 232-year history. Coincidentally, the nomination will be official at the end of February, Black History Month and fulfills a 2019 campaign promise by President Joe Biden.

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Words Matter: How To Turn Your Story into Herstory and Action

“Every story has value, every woman has value and can make her valuable contribution, not just the rich, famous and powerful,” says Rebecca Sive, author of the new book, Make Herstory Your Story: Your Guided Journal to Justice Every Day for Every Woman.

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Reading The Future: 5 Trends To Define Work in 2022 and Beyond

The coronavirus pandemic has altered every aspect of life, and the workplace is no exception.

In 2020, 2.3 million women left the U.S. workforce—either through job loss or being forced to quit in order to care for their children—leading to the lowest levels of women in the labor force since the 1980s, prompting Vice President Kamala Harris to declare it “a national emergency.”

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