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Most organisations do a terrible job of onboarding. According to Gallup, only 12 percent of employees believe their company did a good job onboarding them. Onboarding is the process of taking someone from outside your organisation and making them a productive, independent, and confident member of your team who understands...

On the policy paper, China does not discriminate against the development of the private sector. There are talks about the “two unwaverings”, a phrase that means unwavering support for both private companies, as well as state-owned ones.  However, things are not quite the same in the actual market. According to...

Term insurance is widely believed to be the simplest and the purest type of life insurance. It offers the policyholder a life cover (sum assured) for periodic (or lump sum) premium payments. The premiums for these plans are usually some of the lowest you can get, and the sum assured...

The secret to a truly great organization is the values and beliefs that exist at its core. Since the founding of Akadeum Life Sciences in 2014, the standards we uphold are to diligently help people solve problems in their lab work around separating cells, nucleic acids, or proteins from biological...

I’ve enjoyed many celebrations over the years. Christmas Day, Valentine’s Day, Independence Day, my birthday… all of them are fine. But what I’m looking forward to most is Election Day. I love elections. Not only do they embody our democratic process in action, and fulfill the visions of our Founding...

I’ve participated multiple times in a grueling sport known as adventure racing and enjoyed the pre-race fear of failure, the exhilarating start to the eight or twelve hour event, and the final painful waddle across the finish line on legs too worn out to function correctly. Inevitably in these challenging...

You know that data drives business. But is quantitative or qualitative data better for your needs? The short answer is that each type can be valuable depending on your situation. Every modern business runs on data. You and your team members probably leverage data all the time to help make...

In a distributed workforce that includes multiple employees working in different locations, the role of the CEO is more complex than ever. As we unravel the long-term impacts of COVID-19 and enter new valleys marked by staggering economic inflation, there’s more stress and illness in our world. The most responsible...

Jakob Wissel is well known for being a young and successful professional who has evidenced success in the sales field. Throughout his career, he has continued to be one of the top salesmen everywhere he has worked, including Florida Mobile Glass, where he was eventually promoted to sales manager. No...

Leadership constantly requires us to pull from our strengths, values, and expertise, and contextualize them at the moment. It is an adaptive ability and leadership approach I call Ferocious Warmth. It is doing a constant dance between ferocity and warmth, high support and high challenge, head, and heart. Ferocious Warmth...