Tag: business
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De-escalating client issues : how to work with less than an optimal situation
No work with clients – and other humans in generally – is just sunshine. There will be bad days, misunderstandings, cultural and social differences, and above all, people who expect especially a different or new employee on the job to magically transform into the person they are used to working with.This is neither fair nor…
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Lesbians Who Tech : The key takes from the keynotes
If you have never heard of it, you should have – the Lesbians Who Tech summit is a conference for the LGBTQ+ community and allies, with the focus on those who work in tech, and in all honesty, this is a poor description for a brilliant event with a brilliant agenda. I first heard about…
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Crisis management and business – should how you manage crises be updated on a regular basis?
Fact – every business, indeed every type of human interaction, can fall victim to a crisis and requires a good plan to get out of it again.This goes for everything from child and pet care to interpersonal relations to industries as diverse as traditional B2B and B2C, commercial archaeology, AI innovation specialists and literally everyone…
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Can anthropology truly work cross business?
One of the most important things to remember when talking about anthropology is that it is about us, humans – literally. It covers who we are, what we do, how we behave – and that is exactly what business does too.When I first started this consulting business, I had to repeatedly explain to people what…
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No man is an island…except after a pandemic
As offices everywhere begin to slowly, tentatively reopen, the return to the everyday life simply isn’t what we knew. With the covid-19 considered to be under fragile control (and with a potential new wave always possible), there is a host of new rules to consider for the average office worker…if they even return. According to…