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If it seems like you’re always flying by the seat of your pants, most likely there are a few specifics causes. Here are some suggestions for how you can get back on track and breathe a little easier without feeling like every minute is a crisis. (Fast Company)
Visit https://www.fastcompany.com/90423953/how-to-stay-out-of-crisis-mode-at-work to view the full article online.
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Diversity in the Workplace
Diverse and inclusive cultures are providing companies with a competitive edge over their peers. So concluded The Wall Street Journal’s research analysts in their first ranking of corporate sectors, as well as the individual companies in the S&P 500 index, based on how diverse and inclusive they are. (Wall Street Journal)
Visit https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-business-case-for-more-diversity-11572091200 to view the full article online.
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Education
The U.S. is the birthplace of the MBA and home to 51 of the top 100 business schools in the FT’s global ranking list. But the market is five years into a fall off in demand, which has been spreading in recent years to even the most well-regarded institutions, including Stanford, Harvard Business School and Wharton. (Financial Times)
Visit https://www.ft.com/content/79c502b4-de09-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc to view the full article online.
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Lately, a number of U.S. politicians, but especially Democratic presidential hopefuls, have been offering promises of loan forgiveness, interest-rate caps, and tax-code changes, all designed to reform a broken system of educational finance — and to no doubt appeal to more than 43 million people who hold America’s $1.6 trillion in student loan debt. (Quartz)
Visit https://qz.com/work/1732070/the-emotional-toll-of-student-loan-debt-at-work/ to view the full article online.
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Technology
Fast-paced technological and digital innovations have not only changed the way that we live but also the way that we work. Today, organizations around the world are integrating digital workplaces as part of their digital transformation strategy to make it easier for employees to communicate, collaborate and engage. (Business.com)
Visit https://www.business.com/articles/digital-workplace-2025/ to view the full article online.
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The Economy
The Great Recession and the financial crisis of 2007-2009 brought the global economy to its knees. An overheated US housing market combined with the failure of several storied financial institutions led to millions of jobs being lost around the world and a slow, decade-long recovery that has only recently brought the economy back to something approaching full employment. (Business Insider)
Visit https://www.businessinsider.com/jobs-that-have-disappeared-since-the-great-recession to view the full article online.
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Corporate America
And here we are again folks, the stock market is at record highs. It all feels rather bizarro, no? A year of wild Trump tweets on his trade war with China. Stocks have shrugged them off. It’s been a year of decelerating global economic growth — thanks to that Trump trade war — and gloomy predictions from the likes of the IMF, and stocks could seemingly care less. (Yahoo! Finance)
Visit https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-stock-market-is-at-a-record-and-its-unbelievable-182859136.html to view the full article online.
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