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Learning for organizational development
Money & Business

Learning for organizational development

...thinking on the issues and opportunities facing learning and development (L&D), including the role of L&D in talent attraction and retention Includes case studies and reflective questions alongside the knowledge and understanding required for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)’s intermediate level courses in learning and development Shows how to...
Scale your business with the Eagle Labs Academy
Money & Business

Scale your business with the Eagle Labs Academy

...thinking about taking that leap to become a founder, taking your product to the next level, wanting to help your marketing team grow their skills, or you're at the exciting stage of raising capital. Eagle Labs Academy can help with all of this and more. It is free, you don’t have to be a Barclays customer and it’s available to all founders and their team to register...
60-Second Adventures in Thought
History & The Arts

60-Second Adventures in Thought

...think? How does a tortoise beat Achilles in a race? Voiced by comedian David Mitchell, these fast-paced animations explain six famous thought experiments, from the ancient Greeks to Albert Einstein, that have changed the way we see the world. Subjects as vast as time travel, infinity, quantum mechanics and artificial intelligence, are squeezed into 60-second clips that...
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...think are the main similarities between the arguments in this case study and the second paragraph of ‘The new economy’ quotation discussed in Section 1? Figure 2 illustrates a number of different makes of digital camera. What other products do you normally associate with the manufacturers of these cameras? [Figure 2] Copyright © IPC Media Ltd © Copyright © IPC...
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...system or a car radio rather than in a concert hall. In this case your music is relayed to you via various technological devices; well before the music reaches a compact disc (CD) or radio it will have been manipulated in various way using studio devices for recording, mixing and mastering. From the traditional acoustic instruments to the modern computer-based sampler or...
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...system was code-named ‘Ultra’, and was one of the best-kept secrets of the Second World War. From a historian’s point of view, the exposure of Ultra has been a lesson in how cautious we must be in analysing historical evidence and drawing conclusions about what happened. A good example of this point concerns the hunt for the German battleship, the Bismarck, in the...
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...thinking risks being short to medium term because the people and organisations involved are constantly changing. Traditional rivalries between marketing communications disciplines (such as media advertising and public relations), and compartmentalised thinking amongst both clients and their agencies, have acted as a barrier to a holistic approach to the consumer. Schultz,...
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...thinking (e.g. ‘technology/science will save us’), we can detach ourselves from the problem (e.g. ‘there’s nothing I can do about it’), we can blame others (e.g. ‘others that produce more pollution than me are the problem’) or we can immerse ourselves in the busyness of our everyday lives and not think about it. [Newspaper headlines about climate change]...