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#303 – HINDSIGHT FROM 2020: STRATEGIES FOR THE NEW NORMAL – DANIEL BURRUS

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These days, you can find a slurry of memes and motivational graphics on social media alluding to the concept that you must always beat out your competition in business. But contrary to popular belief, competing with other businesses is actually quite counterproductive, especially in the post-pandemic “new normal” we face – something we never expected to be facing as we entered this new decade. Continue reading →

#300 – HANK LINDBORG PH.D.: FUTURE OF WORK QUALITY – JAMES KLINE PH.D.

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This piece is with Henry J. Lindborg, Ph. D.

Dr. Lindborg has degrees from Fordham University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has extensive experience in all areas of higher education. Positions include senior vice president, academic vice president, dean of faculty and Executive Director of the Internal Values Institute. He has consulted for Fortune Five Hundred corporations, an Indian Nation, utilities, publishers, manufacturers, and health care providers. He is a founder of ASQ’s Education Division and past member of its Education and Training Board.    Continue reading →

#296 – ARE GOVERNMENT ENQUIRIES FIT FOR PURPOSE? (GRENFELL TOWER FIRE) – IAN DALLING

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“On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, it caused 72 deaths, including those of two victims who later died in hospital. More than 70 others were injured, and 223 people escaped. It was the deadliest structural fire in the United Kingdom since the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster and the worst UK residential fire since the Second World War. Continue reading →

#296 – COVID-19 IS BAD ENOUGH. GET READY FOR MIS-C. IT’S WORSE – ALLEN TAYLOR

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Covid-19 hits elderly people particularly hard, with severe disease and high mortality. That’s sad, but society may rationalize the loss, by saying, “He led a good life.” When a child contracts a serious disease and dies from it, the loss is far worse than just sad. The world will never know what that child might have accomplished had she lived. The parents will suffer a loss that I can’t even imagine. Continue reading →

#294 – DO YOUR DUTY! – IAN DALLING

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Lord Horatio Nelson’s famous message “England expects that every man will do his duty”, signalled from HMS Victory to the fleet before the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is just as relevant in today’s COVID 19 and other planetary crises including global warming, the toxic pollution of our environment, and the genetic modification of our food threatening our health and consciousness. Nelson’s message is now applicable to everyone on Earth irrespective of race or creed or whatever roles they may perform. Continue reading →