Hilary Cottam: Social services are broken. How we can fix them

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When a family falls into crisis -- and it sometimes happens, thanks to unemployment, drugs, bad relationships and bad luck -- the social services system is supposed to step in and help them get back on track. As Hilary Cottam shows, in the UK a typical family in crisis can be eligible for services from more than 70 different agencies, but it's unlikely that any one of them can really make a difference. Cottam, a social worker herself, asks us to think about the ways we solve deep and complex social problems.

Software Defined Storage and the FX platform: an example

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Software-defined storage (SDS) is an important trend shaping the future of the IT industry. Inform customers that the modular, flexible design of the FX architecture provides future-ready infrastructure specifically built to maximize the advantages of a software-defined data center. Share this blog to illustrate how FX combines server and storage components along with virtualization offerings (like VMware) to bring unprecedented levels of efficiency to customer data centers.”

ADR Training: Trends and Variations in Mediation Curriculum

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NP@PON collected many types of curriculum materials from teachers and trainers who attended the 2009 Mediation Pedagogy Conference.  We received general materials about classes on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as well as highly specific and idiosyncratic units like Conflict Resolution through Literature: Romeo and Juliet and a negotiating training package for female managers from the
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Offense and defense, a b2b insight

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Selling change to organizations is difficult. One reason is that change represents a threat, a chance for things to go wrong. It’s no wonder that many people avoid anything that smells of change. Another reason is that different people in the organization have different worldviews, different narratives. Consider the difference between “offense” and “defense” when ... Read more

Francesco Sauro: Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science

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Cave explorer and geologist Francesco Sauro travels to the hidden continent under our feet, surveying deep, dark places inside the earth that humans have never been able to reach before. In the spectacular tepuis of South America, he finds new minerals and insects that have evolved in isolation, and he uses his knowledge of these alien worlds to train astronauts.

Email Summit 2015 Panel: How to justify investment in and get the most out of new email technology

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There are so many different vendors in email marketing — how do you know that you’ve selected the right one for your technology needs? Watch this panel from Email Summit 2015 to learn how to justify the investment in technology and how to choose the right technology for your company.

In Business Negotiations, Capitalize on a Right of First Refusal

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As dealmakers look for more sophisticated ways to reduce risks and increase returns, a right of first refusal—a contractual guarantee that one side can match any offer that the other side later receives—has become a common and useful tool to add to your business negotiation skills.

Discover step-by-step techniques for avoiding common business negotiation pitfalls when you download a copy of the FREE special report, Business Negotiation Strategies: How to Negotiate Better Business Deals, from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

The Millennials Are Coming: Here’s How to Recruit Them

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The Millennials Are Coming: Here’s How to Recruit Them
Author: Mark Ruthfield
 
College graduation season has passed, sending an influx of freshly-minted grads into the workforce. While some have already secured jobs, many are still looking. But sales is, ironically, often a hard sell as a career path for millennials, despite having the most permanent, full-time positions available. In fact, 14 percent of job openings available 2015 were in sales.

Tom Uglow: An Internet without screens might look like this

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Designer Tom Uglow is creating a future in which humanity's love for natural solutions and simple tools can coexist with our need for information and the devices that provide us with it. "Reality is richer than screens," he says. "We can have a happy place filled with the information we love that feels as natural as switching on lightbulb."

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