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Four essential ways big companies should be thinking small.

After finding out my cancer was cured, I was preoccupied with the question, “When so many do not survive cancer, why me?” One philosophical answer is: If we’re alive, our mission on Earth isn’t finished. But I am 69, so how big a vision is possible for a person of my age?

Each phase of the three-part program includes nine sessions each year and requires significant out-of-class work, team projects, and presentations.

Particularly in multicultural teams, the winds of impatience are blowing all around us, and it takes courage to stand firm and truly listen—even to ourselves.

What message are you sending employees about standards and expectations for high-priority behaviors from day one?

There are three distinct technologies already in existence that the education and training industry needs to take advantage of if they want to be competitive in 2025: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS), and Microlearning.

The Americans with Disabilities Act has taken great measures to end discrimination against people with disabilities, but businesses need to continue to seek out ways to use modern technology to create a truly inclusive workplace.

It is critical to understand how a person learns and what an organization can do to trigger, develop, and sustain the learning process in that individual.

The training focuses on seven steps to analyze barriers to performance improvement, prioritize the barriers, and develop a plan to overcome them—with the ultimate aim of improving profit margins.

Purpose-driven management is a different approach to defining objectives, focused on a longer-term, values-based vision for both the organization and its people.