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"Getting someone to tell the truth is an essential skill that very few people possess. In the boardroom, classroom, or our own homes, every day we interact with others and try to get the truth from them. People are often untruthful out of fear of negative consequences associated with divulging information. But if a person is made to forget the long-term outcomes, he or she can be influenced to disclose sensitive information that's being withheld....
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This video focuses on effective ways to understand and organize data using descriptive statistics. Analyzing data collected from studies of young music students, the video helps viewers sort through basic data-interpretation concepts: measures of central tendency, levels of measurement, measures of dispersion, and graphs. A wide range of organization principles are covered, including mode, median, and mean; discrete and continuous data; nominal, ordinal,...
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Orkney Islands—seven miles off the coast of Scotland, and cut off by the tumultuous Pentland Firth, the fastest flowing tidal race in Europe is often viewed as being remote. But recent discoveries there are turning the Stone Age map of Britain upside down. Rather than an outpost at the edge of the world, recent finds suggest an extraordinary theory that Orkney was the cultural capital of our ancient world and the origin of the stone circle cult,...
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From the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Angler, the definitive narrative of Edward Snowden and the modern surveillance state. When Edward Snowden gave Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras, and Glenn Greenwald each a vast and explosive archive of highly classified NSA files, he, and they, touched off an ongoing global controversy. But for Gellman, the initial scoop was only the beginning of a deep investigation...
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Strategic agility is one of the skills that will be most in demand in the coming years. Bosses and managers, who must make decisions and manage a part of the organization, find themselves in a complex and changing environment. With this methodology and skill, they will be able to focus on their tasks and complete them more productively. In addition, it will be possible for them to correct deviations by investing less time and money. In this course,...