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Strategically Building the New Normal For Your Organization
The pandemic has forced companies and organizations of all sizes (as well as individuals and families) to explore how they have been affected, what the unfolding shifts will mean for their futures and how they can adapt to the ongoing changes. Various terms have been...
Bad Decisions Don’t Just Happen
A few years back, my team and I prepared for the launch of our new leadership product. We were excited. We even skipped a few key steps in our rush to market. We just knew we had something special. We messaged hundreds of thousands of people about the product, and...
Feeling Safe in an Unsafe World
To talk about feeling safe in an unsafe world, I'm going to use a very reductive model of the universe. This is admittedly oversimplified, but it’s useful as a starting point: A profound psychological need that we have as human beings is a sense of safety....
Boost Your Productivity; Stop Monday-itis by Changing the Way You Work
Monday morning strikes fear (or at least a flat mood) into the minds of many. If you are suffering from a case of Monday-itis, browsing employment websites might be overtaking the time spent doing your actual job. But here’s the good news: research conducted by the...
Fire Guidance for Bridges should be ‘Accelerated’ after US Rail Crossing Collapse
Clear fire safety design guidance for bridges should be “accelerated” after the collapse of a rail bridge in Arizona, USA, according to leading bridge expert Ian Firth. The Salt River Union Pacific Bridge collapsed last week, after a freight train derailed and caught...
The Case for Integrating AI into Construction
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become all but an inevitability for the vast majority of industries, and construction is no different. It stands as one of humanity’s oldest disciplines, refined over millennia and swayed in new directions by every civilisation and...
Could Working From Home Crush Your Career? An HR Expert Warns about Pitfalls
Nita Chhinzer says people working at home need to speak up and ask for development opportunities. Working from home during the pandemic has had some great benefits (less commuting, more time with beloved pets and cost savings on items like parking and gas), but it...
How Modular bBildings put Together in Factories Could Play a Role in the Cities of the Future
When someone thinks about how a house is built, images of bustling, noisy and dusty construction sites spring to mind. Our hunger for new buildings and internal space has an impact on the planet. A recent report from the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction,...
Questions to Make Your Virtual Meetings More Effective
Few consider meetings the highlight of their workday – more probably consider it the bane of their work life. It is true that meetings, while important and potentially useful, aren’t always very good. Sadly, now that most meetings are being held virtually, it hasn’t...