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The problem with Employee Appreciation Day

Fast Company Tech

If you want to build an inclusive culture, make a point to acknowledge the ways employees support and collaborate with each other, not just their individual accomplishments. If so, make a conscious effort to expand recognition across teams, levels, and roles. These behaviors drive long-term success, but they often go unnoticed.

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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. But in cities with historic buildings that predate modern accessibility standards by decades or even centuries, those challenges are even further amplified.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Bell’s work will play a large role in their success. Although you’re probably not recruiting a team for an extreme experience, it can be helpful to begin thinking about team building from Bell’s perspective. “A Building a great team starts with hiring the right people. She studies team composition.

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Is your organization creating bad leaders?

Fast Company Tech

Organizations are not mere collections of departments, roles, technologies and processes. Ambiguity as the Enemy of Accountability Ambiguity in roles, decision-making authority, or performance expectations is another byproduct of poor design. Map out how each division, team, and role contributes to achieving these goals.

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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

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It involves reinventing work processes, improving channels of communication, and asking your staff to imagine their roles and responsibilities differently. Build Relationships The IT Department can’t be an island. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers.

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Overqualified and underchallenged? Here’s how to make it work

Fast Company Tech

Whatever the case, now youre stuck wondering how to stay motivated in a role that doesnt come close to tapping your full potential. Heres how they made the most of roles they were technically overqualified for, and how you can do the same. Listen carefully as you’ll hear problems you’re uniquely positioned to solve.

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When Nonprofit Boards Meddle: The Dangers Of Micromanagement

Bloomerang

Their role is to set the nonprofit’s long-term direction and ensure the organization has the resources, finances, and accountability mechanisms in place to achieve its mission. The problem of micromanagement is quite prevalent. When that trust is broken—or was never established—friction builds, and the organization suffers.

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