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What We Can Learn from Finnish NGOS About Resilience

Beth Kanter

When discussing the ideas in The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , people in Finland have figured out keeping calm versus fire drill culture. Take for example, Fulbright Finland where I did a workshop with their staff about personal branding and professional networking.

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Can Competitors be Collaborators?

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Nowadays, the best partner might be your direct competitor,” says Paavo Ritala, a professor of Strategy and Innovation at LUT University of Technology in Finland. Competitors tend to face similar markets and use similar resources and technologies. They typically have to deal with similar challenges at large.

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Can Competitors be Collaborators?

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Nowadays, the best partner might be your direct competitor,” says Paavo Ritala, a professor of Strategy and Innovation at LUT University of Technology in Finland. Competitors tend to face similar markets and use similar resources and technologies. They typically have to deal with similar challenges at large.

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Study: Not Enough Progress on Gender Diversity at Events

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But 19 countries had almost no women speakers, including South Korea, Norway, and Finland. Women were slightly better represented in the U.S. and Canada, where they made up 36 percent of speakers, and in Mexico (38 percent). The country closest to gender parity was Kenya (40 percent women). Likewise, gender diversity varied based on industry.

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Daily Buzz: 4 Tips for Retaining Talent

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“[W]e have an incredible offering, world-leading research centers and technology, and the ability to deliver top-level events for associations of all sizes,” said Miikka Valo, a spokesman for the tourism board of Espoo, Finland, as well as a Scandinavian cities alliance that sponsored the recent meeting. Other Links of Note.

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Group Finds Working Parents in U.S. Less Happy Than Nonparents

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And in Nordic countries, such as Norway, Sweden, and Finland, parents report higher levels of happiness than their child-free equivalents. . … The bad news is that of the 22 countries we studied, the U.S.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.18.20

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In 2019, it gathered 6,200 participants in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The EAIE Conference and Exhibition is the largest international higher education conference in Europe and the second largest in the world. 1 CMP credit.

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