Decision Adversity: a Character Strengths Perspective on Decision Uncertainty and Error

Adversarial growth and learning from error is an essential capability for individuals in organizations, and carries particular challenges for anyone in a leadership position. This paper focuses on a strengths based perspective to Decision Adversity (DA) in the workplace. Decision adversity encompasses the stress and consequences of making and pursuing wrong business decisions; wrong decisions that are, in hindsight, incompatible with corporate goals and deplete resources. It reviews topics and studies on the challenges of decisions, including: dealing with uncertainty, difficulties in recognizing when a decision that is no longer advantageous, the anxiety of questioning a potentially wrong path, and coping with an outcome of a decision that was, in hindsight, the wrong choice. It will propose how a focus on character strengths can influence positive responsive behaviors, emotions, and actions. Interviews with experienced professionals will explore questions of DA from the perspective of those making and implementing decisions, highlighting opportunities and use of character strengths when coping with and responding to these situations. The paper will conclude with strengths focused recommendations, and suggest opportunities for further exploration of the use of strengths in addressing decision adversity

How remote work affects productivity and the future of work : the Go-to-Market Strategy for Junto, the B2B digital nomad program

Remote work is the future of company cultures, and this paper will provide data on how much of the workforce will become remote in the upcoming years. An increasing workforce wants to enjoy the benefits and flexibility of the digital nomad lifestyle, known as digital nomadism. However, it is hard for employees to work remotely while separate from a stable office culture. Junto is a B2B remote work program that plans and organizes a one-month ‘workation’ for employees. It assists employees with the flexibility and work-life balance they desire to improve the company culture. The tools included are finding accommodation, flight plans, visa & legal services, financial planning for the trip, work-life balance tools, and manager to employee assistance. It allows employees to keep their current jobs while traveling and having stability. Companies, in return, gain a higher talent and loyal workforce. This paper has valuable insights on non-start-up companies in traditional office cultures that would pivot to a remote working lifestyle based on a qualitative and quantitative research approach. This paper also acts as a marketing recommendation for Junto, which is recommended to market its services best by targeting non-start-up companies that would be open and benefit from its remote working program and services.O trabalho remoto é o futuro das culturas da empresa, e este documento fornecerá dados sobre quanto da mão-de-obra se tornará remota nos próximos anos. Uma força de trabalho crescente quer desfrutar dos benefícios e flexibilidade do estilo de vida nómada digital, conhecido como nomadismo digital. Contudo, é difícil para os trabalhadores trabalharem remotamente enquanto se separam de uma cultura de escritório estável. O Junto é um programa de trabalho remoto B2B que planeia e organiza um "workation" de um mês para os empregados. Assiste os empregados com a flexibilidade e o equilíbrio entre trabalho e vida pessoal que desejam para melhorar a cultura da empresa. As ferramentas incluídas são encontrar alojamento, planos de voo, vistos e serviços jurídicos, planeamento financeiro para a viagem, ferramentas de equilíbrio entre a vida profissional e a vida privada, e gestão da assistência aos empregados. Permite aos empregados manter os seus empregos actuais enquanto viajam e ter estabilidade. As empresas, em troca, ganham um maior talento e mão-de-obra leal. Este documento tem conhecimentos valiosos sobre empresas não iniciantes em culturas de escritório tradicionais que seriam pivot para um estilo de vida de trabalho remoto baseado numa abordagem de investigação qualitativa e quantitativa. Este documento funciona também como uma recomendação de marketing para a Junto, que é recomendada para comercializar melhor os seus serviços, visando as empresas não iniciantes que seriam abertas e beneficiariam do seu programa e serviços de trabalho remoto

Refugees as Discursive Others: (Re)producing State Power and Acting as Citizens at Berlin’s Oranienplatz

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

Fulminant Clostridium difficile Enteritis after Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastamosis

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection of the small bowel is very rare. The disease course is more severe than that of C. difficile colitis, and the mortality is high. We present a case of C. difficile enteritis in a patient with ileal pouch-anal anastamosis (IPAA), and review previous case reports in order to better characterize this unusual condition

Parent-infant observation for prediction of later childhood psychopathology in community-based samples : A Systematic Review

Open Access via the PLOS Agreement Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Effects of additional stimuli on ideafinding in design teams

Studying the effects of idea-finding design methods experimentally can provide some light into their degree of usability. An experiment was carried out to study the effects that different stimuli proposedin idea-finding methods have on the design process and outcomes of four design teams, and to compare these effects with those produced by the problem-solving characteristic of the team members. Protocol analysis and outcome-based analysis were carried out. The results of the analysis show that stimuli can have a greater effect on the design activity than the influence of the designers’ problem-solving styles in the conditions of the experiment. Stimulus with SCAMPER questions favours refinement of solutions, by using a solution as a frame and the questions as sub-frames. Stimulus with images (related in shape and function with the designed object, and displayed in intervals of time) leads teams to be in a continuous flux of generation of partial solutions

Creativity in people vs in methods

Ponencia presentada en el IX Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería de Proyectos celebrado en Málaga en el año 2005This paper aims to analyse the type of influence that idea-finding methods and designers’ problem solving traits exert on the way the design process unfolds and in the outcomes. This is researched by means of protocol analysis and outcome-based analysis of a design experiment. This experiment shows that stimuli can have a greater influence on the design activity than that of the designers’ problem solving traits.Esta comunicación, cuyo título se traduce al castellano como “La creatividad de las personas frente a la de los métodos”, pretende analizar el tipo de influencia que ejercen los métodos de generación de ideas y las características de las personas sobre el proceso de diseño y los resultados que se obtienen. Para ello, se ha realizado un análisis de protocolo y un análisis de soluciones producidas en un experimento de diseño. Los resultados muestran que los estímulos de los métodos de generación de ideas pueden ejercer una influencia mayor en la actividad de diseño que las características creativas de las personas que intervienen

Using tasks to explore teacher knowledge in situation-specific contexts

This article was published in the journal, Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education [© Springer] and the original publication is available at www.springerlink.comResearch often reports an overt discrepancy between theoretically/out-of context expressed teacher beliefs about mathematics and pedagogy and actual practice. In order to explore teacher knowledge in situation-specific contexts we have engaged mathematics teachers with classroom scenarios (Tasks) which: are hypothetical but grounded on learning and teaching issues that previous research and experience have highlighted as seminal; are likely to occur in actual practice; have purpose and utility; and, can be used both in (pre- and in-service) teacher education and research through generating access to teachers’ views and intended practices. The Tasks have the following structure: reflecting upon the learning objectives within a mathematical problem (and solving it); examining a flawed (fictional) student solution; and, describing, in writing, feedback to the student. Here we draw on the written responses to one Task (which involved reflecting on solutions of x+x−1=0 of 53 Greek in-service mathematics teachers in order to demonstrate the range of teacher knowledge (mathematical, didactical and pedagogical) that engagement with these tasks allows us to explore

Occupancy of avian foraging guilds in soybean fields and borders in Entre Ríos, Argentina: responses to vegetation structure and prey resources

Reconciling agriculture and biodiversity conservation is a challenge given the growing demand for agricultural products. In recent decades, Argentina has witnessed agricultural expansion and intensification affecting biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. Within agroecosystems, the level of habitat quality is critical for birds, and may depend on vegetation structure, availability of invertebrate prey, and the use of pesticides. Although the relationship between vegetation structure and avian occurrence has been widely studied, to our knowledge, there are no studies that also incorporate prey availability throughout the cycle of soybean crops in Argentina. We estimated and predicted the effects of land cover and temporal variation on the occurrence of avian foraging guilds in Entre Ríos, Argentina, in order to guide management related to potential ecosystem services provided by birds. We also estimated temporal effects of vegetation structure and insecticides on the main arthropod orders consumed by birds to evaluate prey availability. Methods: We conducted bird and arthropod surveys for 2 years along transects located in 20 randomly selected soybean fields (N = 60) and their adjacent borders (N = 78) throughout the crop growing season, in four seasons. We estimated avian occupancy, accounting for imperfect detection, and arthropod counts fitting generalized linear mixed models. Results: The number of native trees in field borders positively influenced the occurrence of most bird species, mainly insectivores. Granivore foliage gleaners, also were positively affected by grass height. Salliers and aerial foragers were weakly affected by distance to forest and native trees. In general, the availability of invertebrates to birds was highest during the third season. Arthropod counts in borders were greater during the last three crop stages than during the pre-sowing period. Conclusions: We found that with 10 to 15 native tree species in borders, coupled with a complex vegetation structure with shrubs and grasses, we could conserve a wide spectrum of insectivorous birds, and may contribute to the invertebrate pest control service. Vegetated field borders function as a refuge for arthropods, especially agriculturally beneficial taxa such as Hymenopterans. Finally, several groups of birds use the interior of the fields and could help control pests.Instituto de Recursos BiológicosFil: Goijman, Andrea Paula. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos; Argentina. University of Georgia. D.B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Estados UnidosFil: Conroy, Michael J. University of Georgia. D.B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Estados UnidosFil: Varni, Vanina Delia. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos; ArgentinaFil: Thompson, Jeffrey. Guyra Paraguay – CONACYT; Paraguay. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos; Argentina.Fil: Zaccagnini, Maria Elena. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos; Argentin