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12/05/2012 by Leo Widrich on lifehacker Shared by Claudia Richman, MSLOC Student

11/08/2013 by Kate Torgovnick May Shared by Diane Knoepke, MSLOC Student, on Twitter - @DianeKnoepke

Narrative Is a Powerful Way to Get a Message Across 11/09/2013 by Dennis Nishi Shared by Claudia Richman, MSLOC Student, on Twitter - @claudiarichman

The poetics of presenting, or why beautiful metaphors are better than beautiful slides. 08/28/2013 by Maria Popova Shared by Georgianne Hewett, MSLOC Student, on Twitter - @georgianneh Discusses Nancy Duarte, author of Resonate, an assigned book in the MSLOC Foundations class.

By Kelly Ross, MSLOC 2011 Today's increasingly global business world is resulting in more organizations sending employees to work outside their home countries as expatriates. Organizations incur tremendous costs to support expatriate assignments, which can be challenging for the employees. This study defines characteristics of successful expatriates and assesses how coaching can support the expatriate's success.

By Jeanne Ebersole, MSLOC 2012 Few women hold roles at the top levels of organizations and of those who do, many have reported their intent to leave within five years. This study investigates the transition experiences of executive women who have opted out. It explores the genesis of their desire to opt-out, the support they received and would have liked to receive as well as the role of coaching in the process. Participants reported experiencing a distinct transition process with identifiable phases and that coaching would be useful in the transition.

In This Issue Think Differently: How can organizations prepare change leaders for VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity)? Community Buzz - The power of being mindful in the workplace - Talent Management: Looking beyond the resume MSLOC Community Snapshots - People on the Move

In This Issue Think Differently: How can organizations prepare change leaders for VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity)? Community Buzz - The power of being mindful in the workplace - Talent Management: Looking beyond the resume MSLOC Community Snapshots - People on the Move

By Bea La O', MSLOC 2014 Capstone Research "This study seeks to understand how managers make strategic decisions through the lens of three approaches proffered by Mintzberg and Westley (2001): "think-first," procedural rationality, "see-first," insight and intuition, and "do-first," sensemaking. Through interviews with six leaders on strategic decision issues that range from changing the growth strategy of a large healthcare firm to redefining the talent management framework of a large quick service restaurant company, the study finds managers switch between the three approaches over the course of considering a decision issue. It also finds managers manage the inherent tension between "thinking-first," "seeing-first," and "doing-first," and socialize decision issues with stakeholders using "think-first," procedural rationality, and "do-first," sensemaking. "