TED: Bruce Aylward: Humanity vs. Ebola. The winning strategies in a terrifying war - Bruce Aylward (2014)

“Ebola threatens everything that makes us human,” says Bruce Aylward of the World Health Organization. With calm measure, he walks us through how the Ebola epidemic exploded — and how international alarm only fed the exponential growth of the problem. He shares four strategies critical to beating Ebola — and how they are succeeding, starting in Lofa County, Liberia, which was at the center of the outbreak but where no new case has been registered in weeks.

Tough Negotiation Tips from Jennifer Aniston?

Fans of the television show Friends got a treat last month when Netflix made all 236 episodes of the blockbuster hit available to stream online. At first glance actors Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston and the rest of the star-studded cast might not be your first pick to peg as formidable negotiators, but at the height

Dealing with Difficult People: When You’re Tempted to Deceive

Adapted from “When You’re Tempted to Deceive,” first published in the February 2009 issue of Negotiation.
You say you would never lie during a negotiation. Your ethical standards are solid—right?
But imagine that after spending months looking for a new job, you’ve received an attractive offer to serve as the director of innovation for a growing start-up

Vendor Selection: A 5-step process for choosing a marketing automation solution or agency

Mitch Zlotnik, President, and Seth Pauley, Vice President, both of Audimute Acoustic Panels, joined MarketingSherpa's Daniel Burstein to discuss how to select a marketing automation vendor. Watch this video to hear tips on what marketers should look for in a marketing automation vendor, as well as advice for choosing an agency.

The Four Branches of Emotional Intelligence

Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer, two of the leading researchers on Emotional Intelligence (EI), have developed a model in which EI is divided into four main braches. These are:
Perceiving Emotions including nonverbal signs such as facial expressions and body language
Reasoning with Emotions to promote thinking and cognitive activity in their expression
Understanding Emotions, which requires critical thinking to fully grasp their source and complete meaning

TED: Zeynep Tufekci: How the Internet has made social change easy to organize, hard to win - Zeynep Tufekci (2014)

Today the speed at which we spread information is so fast that a single email can launch a worldwide awareness campaign, as with the Occupy movement. Yet as techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci seeks to show, the ease of social media can actually hurt social change in the long run. From Gezi to the Arab Spring to Ukraine to Hong Kong, she shows how today's movements can miss out on the benefits of doing things the hard (and slow) way.

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