Social media has increasingly coalesced communication around topics that, in the workplace, fall into the realm of HR. The "organizer" isn't a person, but a symbol – the hashtag, the ubiquitous #...
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When organizations create or re-design their governance structure, two board structural models come to mind: competency based and representational. In a competency based model, Board candidates are identified based on the competencies they bring to the Board ...
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Associations have shown overall growth in staffing this year, and have plans for further growth in 2019. This growth is accompanied by salary increases, heightened emphasis on performance in setting salaries, and plans for program expansion and membership development, as reported in PNP’s newest Association Salaries and Staffing Trends report...
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Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
by Ken Auletta (Penguin Press, 2018)
In the age of the internet, every organization is a media organization, and in the words of the author, advertising is media’s “fuel supply.” This is not an anti-advertising book. Right at the outset, the author states how advertising and marketing are necessities in a free society...
Hello World: Being Human in an Age of Algorithms
by Hannah Fry (W.W. Norton & Company, 2018)
Here is the simplest definition of an algorithm: “A step-by-step way to solve a problem. One of the advantages of reading a number of non-fiction books about a single subject, even if that subject is as broad as what it means to experience the world today, is how they talk to each other...
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