81% of people in the surveys said that “power today is about influence rather than control.”
When people around the world were surveyed about the ideal modern leader, 64,000 people in 13 countries–from China to Canada–wished their leaders were slightly less polarizing and more collaborative.
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Travel can affect a company’s bottom line.
A new study conducted by Oxford Economics and commissioned by the U.S. Travel Association has found businesses that continued to send employees on the road during the recession were more profitable than those that cut back on business travel.
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You can still be exposed to smoke in non-smoking rooms.
Rooms become “reservoirs of tobacco smoke toxicants that accumulate in carpets, dust, upholstery, mattresses, curtains and furniture, penetrate wallpaper and paint, and are even stored in drywall when they are continually smoked in. Experts refer to this as “third-hand smoke” and no one is sure how to clean it up. And while it’s easy enough to keep smokers confined to designated rooms, smoke itself is harder to contain.
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Only 21 percent of affected children actually get treatment.
About 7 million to 12 million children in the U.S., up to 1 in 5, experience a mental-health disorder each year, according to a new report billed as the first comprehensive look at the mental-health status of American children.
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YouTube’s share of residential downstream traffic has been growing, and is up from 13.8 percent a year ago.
According to Sandvine’s latest global internet phenomena report, YouTube is now responsible for 17.1 percent of all residential fixed-line downstream traffic in North America.
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Texting behind the wheel is much more dangerous than driving drunk because of the frequency in which teenagers send texts verses how often they drink.
A new study has found that texting while driving has now replaced drunk driving as the number one cause of teenage deaths on the road in the U.S.
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“Tech is a young person’s game.” “You can’t teach old dogs new tricks.” “A child could solve this problem–someone send for a child.”
Prejudice against older programmers is wrong and inaccurate according to new research. Two computer scientists at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh have discovered a natural experiment to test the technical chops of the old against the young.
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The organization of your dreams.
What if you wanted to design the best company on earth to work for? What would it be like? Harvard Business Review asked hundreds of executives in surveys and in seminars all over the world to describe their ideal organization. This mission arose from their research into the relationship between authenticity and effective leadership. Simply put, people will not follow a leader they feel is inauthentic. But the executives they questioned made it clear that to be authentic, they needed to work for an authentic organization.
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U.S. states are investing in entrepreneur mentorship programs and pumping up their high-tech workforce to encourage residents to start their own businesses.
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Men consumed more sugar per day (an average of 335 calories) than women (239).
Sugar. Honey. Maple syrup. Molasses. High fructose corn syrup. These are all “added sugars,” that you are probably eating and drinking way too much of them.
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