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If You Can’t See What’s Missing, You Get Stuck With It

If You Can’t See What’s Missing, You Get Stuck With It

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“Coachability” is the willingness to be coached, to listen, to respect instruction and act on it.  Coaching (another set of eyes) lets you see what’s missing which, if you act on it, could make a big difference. These days, many people know that coaching is a good idea.  They listen to it politely but never…

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Using Algorithms to Understand the Biases in Your Organization

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Algorithms have taken a lot of heat recently for producing biased decisions. People are outraged over a recruiting algorithm Amazon developed that overlooked female job applicants. Likewise, they are outraged over predictive policing and predictive sentencing that disproportionately penalize people of color. Importantly, race and gender were not included as inputs into any of these algorithms. Should we be outraged…

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The Evolution of Language: Babel or babble?

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Evolution of language: it’s commonly assumed that languages all inevitably share the same roots. However, research is now indicating that this may not be the case. New research findings have highlighted a distinct lack of correlation with regard to grammatical features between language families, and very few within language family’s as well. Could it be…

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6 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Development If Your Company Doesn’t Care About It

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This short-and-sweet article briefly but eloquently poses the ultimate 6 ways to take control of your career development. Whether you want to strengthen your skills or identify your weaknesses or whichever your purpose would entail, this article addresses 6 methods to steadily take control of personal career development even if you do not have the…