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Inside Ghislaine Maxwell’s Life on the Lam. Exclusive: How Jared Kushner Became Donald Trump’s Mini-Me. In late June, Donald Trump arrived at a factory in Monessen, Pennsylvania, and stood before a wall of crushed cans to discuss one of his favorite topics: trade.

Exclusive: How Jared Kushner Became Donald Trump’s Mini-Me

The setting befit the oration. Five Areas That Will Improve Your Sales Negotiation Skills - MTD Sales Training. Being able to negotiate effectively is one of the most important skills you can build in your sales armoury, as it has a direct effect on your margins and overall profitability, as well as ensuring your customers get the best service possible.

Five Areas That Will Improve Your Sales Negotiation Skills - MTD Sales Training

Here, we discuss five aspects of negotiation that will help you improve when carrying out those stages: Prepare with your customer in mind Ask: What are the key challenges this specific customer is facing at the moment? What can I offer that would help them achieve their goals and overcome these challenges? By preparing your answers to these questions, you give yourself a chance to build reasons for the customer to accept a higher price for your solutions, as the value of overcoming them would be greater than the price paid to do so. Aristotle: Ethics. Standard interpretations of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics usually maintain that Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) emphasizes the role of habit in conduct.

Aristotle: Ethics

It is commonly thought that virtues, according to Aristotle, are habits and that the good life is a life of mindless routine. These interpretations of Aristotle’s ethics are the result of imprecise translations from the ancient Greek text. Aristotle uses the word hexis to denote moral virtue. But the word does not merely mean passive habituation.

Rather, hexis is an active condition, a state in which something must actively hold itself. Virtue, therefore, manifests itself in action. Similarly, Aristotle’s concept of the mean is often misunderstood. For Aristotle, moral virtue is the only practical road to effective action. Table of Contents 1. In many discussions, the word "habit" is attached to the Ethics as though it were the answer to a multiple-choice question on a philosophy achievement test. On its face this belief makes no sense. Golden Mean. Kilroy was here. "Kilroy was here" graffiti by Bikini Atoll, film shot in 1946 "Kilroy" was the American equivalent of the Australian Foo was here which originated during World War I.

Kilroy was here

"Mr Chad" or just "Chad" was the version that became popular in the United Kingdom. Why Starbucks' Unconscious Bias Training Probably Won't Change Much. Starbucks made a splash recently by closing 8,000 stores to provide unconscious bias training for over 100,000 employees.

Why Starbucks' Unconscious Bias Training Probably Won't Change Much

The company decided on this widespread training after an employee stopped two black men from using their onsite restroom in a Philadelphia store. As a former Chief Learning Officer at multiple organizations, I don't think this training will change much. And, as a consultant, I can also guess what this training may have cost Starbucks. So why pay for something that likely won't stop this situation from happening in the future? How Understanding Your Brain Can Help You Learn. Recently, a close friend’s niece was having trouble graduating from college.

How Understanding Your Brain Can Help You Learn

She needed to pass a math class to graduate but wouldn’t take it because she feared flunking it. A belief that she just wasn’t “good at math” was keeping her stuck in graduation limbo, unable to move on with her life. I know my friend’s niece isn’t the first person to be cowed by a math course or some other seemingly insurmountable barrier to success. Maybe someone gave you the message that you weren’t talented enough to succeed in a particular field; or you just didn’t have the confidence to persevere when you struggled. Hire Leaders for What They Can Do, Not What They Have Done. Executive Summary The next time you are filling a leadership role, ask yourself three questions.

Hire Leaders for What They Can Do, Not What They Have Done

First, does the candidate have the skills to be a high-performing contributor or the skills to be an effective leader? The performance level of individual contributors is measured largely through their ability, likability, and drive. Leadership, by contrast, demands a broader range of character traits, including high levels of integrity. Second, can you really trust this candidate’s individual performance measures? Innovation & Technology at the Top 10 US Banks - Link Humans. Innovation and banking are two words not typically mentioned in the same sentence.

Innovation & Technology at the Top 10 US Banks - Link Humans

But digitalization is happening, and it’s happening in the banking industry at a surprisingly quick pace with the continuous growth of the Fintech sector; new investment platforms, new banking apps, cryptocurrencies and much more. As Innovation and Technology is one out of 16 attributes that constitute the Employer Brand Index, we felt it necessary to do some research on this attribute within an industry that is seeing major disruption because of it. How we did it We then scoured through thousands of publicly available comments on the user-generated platforms such as employer review sites, forums, blogs, and others. We looked in places like Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Indeed, Instagram, Comparably, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and much more.