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Crimson Fellowship: University of Alabama Christian staff, faculty, and graduate students

"Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example..." (1 Timothy 4:12)Find online: leroyhurt-df0opq.mailerpage.ioCrimson Fellowship meets on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the Baptist Campus Ministries building (403 University Blvd, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401) at 11:45 AM -...

Notes and quotes: About American Workforce Academy

An article by Salena Zito gives some background about American Workforce Academy that parents and mentors of young people pursuing calling and career should think about. Main point: "[Mike] Rowe has been warning anyone who would listen that our skills gap in the...

UACFSF: Mark Tapscott on working on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC

"Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example..." (1 Timothy 4:12)Find online: #UACFSF, https://www.hillfaith.org/Mark Tapscott of HillFaith dropped in on us via Zoom on 2/25 to tell us about his ministry to Capitol Hill staff. Among other things, he leads a...

Thriving in an automated workplaceVia McKinsey, a core workplace issue is how to thrive in an automated workplace. It's pretty optimistic. Some background the article provided:Occupations won't be automated out of existence in the near term. But up to 45% of...

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Thriving in an automated workplaceVia McKinsey, a core workplace issue is how to thrive in an automated workplace. It's pretty optimistic. Some background the article provided:Occupations won't be automated out of existence in the near term. But up to 45% of...

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How A Great Google Workplace Turned Into A ‘Nightmare’

Via Business Insider: What did Google do to provoke such amusing evidence of workplace frustration? Has the Zagat acquisition been a waste of Google's time and money and gone terribly wrong? After speaking with a number of sources, some of whom worked in Google's...

How A Great Google Workplace Turned Into A ‘Nightmare’

Via Business Insider: What did Google do to provoke such amusing evidence of workplace frustration? Has the Zagat acquisition been a waste of Google's time and money and gone terribly wrong? After speaking with a number of sources, some of whom worked in Google's...

Kent Brockman on Unemployment

Via TCS Daily: What kinds of jobs would survive? Two kinds, I think. The obvious kinds are those needing the human touch…I suspect that a lot of jobs that could theoretically be taken by machines won't be, because people will still prefer the human version…But how...

A Harvard Economist’s Surprisingly Simple Productivity Secret

Via LinkedIn: …time isn't the problem, says Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan. The ultimate barrier to success is a shortage of mental "bandwidth," or the ability to focus on a task in the moment. Mullainathan's research focuses on scarcity, and how humans...

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