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Attitude (Organizational Behavior)
What is Attitude? How is it related to Organizational Behavior? Attitude is a way of thinking or feeling about something and is usually reflected in behavior. Attitude in the workplace refers to the feelings and beliefs concerning the...
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8 Types of Organizational Culture
What are the 8 Types of Organizational Culture? Adhocracy Culture, Clan Culture, Customer-Focused Culture, Hierarchy Culture, Market-Driven Culture, Purpose-Driven Culture, Innovative Culture, Creative Culture.
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6 Change Approaches
What is the 6 Changes Approach? The 6 Change Approaches developed by John Kotter and Leonard Schlesinger is a model to prevent, decrease, or minimize resistance to change in organizations.
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Website URLs and Social Media Handles for Business
Why are Website URLs and Social Media Handles important for a Business? Having social media handles will help your business communicate with your customers in real-time and provide timely support. And this way, you can build trust and...
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Types of Teams
What are the Types of Teams? The five most popular types of teams in an organization include problem-solving teams, self-managed work teams, cross-functional teams, virtual teams, and multiteam systems. A formal team is a group of...
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Type 1 and Type 2 Decisions
What are Type 1 Decisions? What are Type 2 Decisions?
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Trademarking a Business Name
Why should you Trademark a Business Name? What is required to secure a trademark? Registering a trademark helps protect a name or brand from intellectual property theft or misuse as a business grows. You can start the trademarking...
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Steps in Developing an Operational Plan
What are the Steps in Developing an Operational Plan? Operations plans are extremely specific, detailed documents that clearly define how a department or team can contribute to reaching specific company goals. They typically outline the...
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Regret Theory
What is the Regret Theory? In decision theory, on making decisions under uncertainty—should information about the best course of action arrive after taking a fixed decision—the human emotional response of regret is often experienced, and...
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Punctuated Equilibrium Model
What is the Punctuated Equilibrium Model? “Punctuated equilibrium is the idea that evolution occurs in spurts instead of following the slow, but steady path that Darwin suggested. Long periods of stasis with little activity in terms of...
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Naming Your Business
What are the considerations when Naming Your Business? Follow your state's naming guidelines · 2. Don't pick a name that's too similar to a competitor's name · 3. Choose a name that people can spell and pronounce.
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Language and the Mind
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts) gives a brief account of how the field of philosophy of language has changed.
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The Deist Revolutionary Payoff
Author and independent scholar Matthew Stewart describes how rationalist notions from Epicurus down through Spinoza and Locke strongly influenced the American Revolution.
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Atoms and Elements: Defining Terms
Atoms and Elements: Defining Terms distinguishes the differences between an atom, an element, a molecule, and a compound.
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Putting Nature’s Lessons into Practice
Did you know that plants and animals can be our teachers as well? That's right, we have learned so many important lessons from nature. This video explores a few examples of nature's great ideas and how we've adopted them into our own...
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Factors That Affect Water Quality
Factors That Affect Water Quality describes the physical, chemical, and biological factors that affect water quality in the environment.
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Haiku Poetry
Haiku Poetry reviews the elements of a haiku and explains how to compose one.
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Harnessing a Crisis
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra explores how finding ourselves in a prolonged societal crisis can force us to grapple with vital political, economic and environmental issues.
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Electrons and Ions
Electrons and Ions describes what occurs in an atom when electrons are added or removed from the outer shell using the terms ion, bonding, gain, lose, and charge.
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Why Is Volcanic Soil So Fertile?
Volcanic soil, belongs to a category of soils known as andisols and is derived from both volcanic lava and volcanic ash, both of which are rich in certain key nutrients, such as iron, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, phosphorous,...
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Neutrons and Isotopes
Neutrons and Isotopes describes how neutron loss or gain affects the stability of an atom by using terms such as isotope, atomic mass, unstable, and decay.