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he Evolution of Mini Satellites: Building Europe's Galileo Navigation System
The video highlights the development of mini satellites by British university students in the 1980s, which led to the creation of Giove, Europe's first satellite in the Galileo civilian-based satellite navigation system. Giove, built at...
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Unlocking the Secrets of Plant Rhythms for Agricultural Innovation
Researchers at Cambridge University, in collaboration with colleagues from Warwick University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, are studying the natural rhythms of plant species, focusing on the thalcrest plant. By manipulating the...
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The Sun: A Closer Look at Our Nearest Star
This video explores the groundbreaking research conducted by scientists at Britain's Mallard Space Science Laboratory, who are using observational satellites to study the Sun's complex nature. They are particularly focused on...
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Governance Systems Explored: Monarchies and Their Variants
This video delves into monarchies as a form of government, distinguishing between absolute and constitutional types. It explores the historical evolution of monarchies and how hereditary succession determines rulership, citing examples...
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Benjamin Franklin's Journey: From Printer to Influential Statesman
Tracing Benjamin Franklin's life from a young age, this video delves into his move to Philadelphia and the significant strides he made in his career. It highlights his ventures into printing, the creation of the daily planner, and the...
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Understanding Words: The Power of Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Dive into the technique of using word structure to decipher unfamiliar words in reading. Explore how analyzing Greek and Latin root words, prefixes, and suffixes can unlock the meanings of many English words. Learn about common root...
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John Lewis: Leading the March on Washington and Beyond
This video captures John Lewis's role as a key figure in the civil rights movement, detailing his leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and participation in the historic March on Washington. It also covers the...
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John Lewis: Journey as a Freedom Rider
This video chronicles John Lewis's early activism as a Freedom Rider, challenging segregated bus facilities in the southern United States. It details his participation in nonviolent protests, enduring brutal attacks, and his arrest and...
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Journey of LGBTQ+ Rights: A Personal and Historical Perspective
This video intertwines personal narratives with the history of the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States. It follows the experiences of individuals realizing and accepting their sexuality, set against the backdrop of the broader...
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Rosa Parks: The Fight for Civil Rights and Equality
This video delves into Rosa Parks' working years, highlighting her marriage to Raymond Parks and her deep involvement with the NAACP. It outlines her contributions to civil rights, including organizing meetings, helping African Americans...
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Rosa Parks: Early Life and Formative Years
This video explores Rosa Parks' early years, detailing her upbringing in Tuskegee, Alabama, and the challenges of growing up amidst racial segregation and threats from the Ku Klux Klan. It discusses her education at Montgomery Industrial...
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The Jiminy Cricket Effect: Cognitive Dissonance and the Urge for Consistency
Conscience is an inner voice that tells us what is right and what is wrong. When we are about to do something that is inconsistent with our conscience, we feel uneasy about. That feeling of unease is what psychologists call “cognitive...
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What is Leader-Member Exchange Theory? And Should You Use LMX Theory?
Leader-Member Exchange Theory is deeply problematic. In fact, I don’t like it. But it may be a model you want to adopt. It is certainly a theory you need to understand, so you can avoid its Dark Side.
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What is Servant Leadership?
Servant Leadership is one of my favorite concepts. For me it’s a no brainer. So, let me explain why.
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Chairing Meetings - How to Prevent Group Think
Group Think is the cause of many, many bad decisions. It happens when the group prioritizes agreement and harmony over examining tricky issues and uncomfortable opinions. And groupthink can lead to all-out disasters. Do, when you're...
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How to Chair Creative Meetings: Tools and Techniques
Sometimes you need your meeting to deliver a creative idea or solution to a problem. And there's an art to chairing creative meetings. So, in this video, I'll suggest my favorite tools for facilitating creative meetings. These will help...
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Rensis Likert and High Producing Managers - Process Models of Motivation
Rensis Likert studied different systems of management and the things that 'high-producing managers' do to achieve the results they get. His conclusions build a helpful model of motivation and how to get the best from the people who work...
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What is a Team?
What is a Team? This is the first video in a new course on teams and team-working. So we need to start at the beginning and establish what we mean by the term 'team'.
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Establishing Team Behavior Norms - Team Development
Team behavior norms are the unwritten rules that team members follow. Establishing your team behavior norms is an important step in moving your team to high performance mode.
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What is Cog's Ladder of Group Experiences? - Team Development
Cog’s Ladder of Group Experiences is a model of group development that expands on the Tuckman Model we looked at in an earlier video.
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Team Leadership and the Tuckman Group Development Stages
In an earlier video, we looked at the Tuckman Model of Group Development. Now, we'll tie the different stages to the style of team leadership that will work best in each stage.
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What is Brian Robertson's Holacracy Organizational Model?
Holacracy is a form of Adhocracy, which we covered in an earlier video. But, whilst we are way past ‘peak adhocracy’, it seems that holacracy is thriving.
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Dimensions of Cross-Cultural Differences: 10 of the Biggest
We can think of cross-cultural differences as different average positions along a number of scales from one extreme to another. Let’s look at ten of the most important of these scales.
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Seth Godin: What are Tribes?
Seth Godin is a marketer and a communicator. And, in 2008 he tapped into the emerging Zeitgeist, with his book, ‘Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us’. (https://geni.us/ugCQ0).