Issue 3

“Qualifications: Strong communication skills.” Although the vast majority of job descriptions mention “strong communication skills,” the unfortunate truth is that many young professionals do not actually possess the skills most wanted by employers. In today’s modern, digital age, “18- to 29-yearolds have been harmed (in terms of developing social skills) by the proliferation of communication devices in ways that are just beginning to emerge.” 1 When face-to-face interactions with others are limited, individuals will fail to gain experience in how to respond to an unexpected or difficult situation. Technology (e.g., email, text, social media, etc.) grants individuals the opportunity to decide when, where, and how to respond to any given circumstance. 2 Although this capability to choose is great under certain circumstances, it is not always feasible or the most appropriate, especially in the workplace. Any individual who is seeking employment, or would like to improve job performance, should strive to (1) be personable, (2) learn to listen, (3) develop presentation skills, and (4) improve written abilities to become a stronger communicator. Read Full Story

EVERY FOUR SECONDS, ANOTHER PERSON IS ENTRAPPED IN FORCED LABOR.Forced labor denotes a situation in which the persons involved—women and men, girls and boys—are made or coerced to work against their free will. This form of modern-day slavery can be exacted through violence or threats of violence, but commonly relies on more subtle means such as accumulated debt, retention of identity papers, or threats of denunciation to immigration authorities. Read Full Story

Dianne Kay recently stamped the last of her Give Aloha campaign envelopes in a small office in downtown Honolulu. Surrounded by stacks of letters petitioning state representatives to support the anti-gambling effort, the eighty-six-year-old president of the Hawaii Coalition Against Legalized Gambling (HCALG), who has led the organization since 1999, wrapped up another campaign. Read Full Story

Utah is known for its variety of recreational areas and activities and has been one of the top states for outdoor enthusiasts through the last couple of decades. Read Full Story

Two years ago, I applied for a program at the Marriott School. I reviewed my applications with mentors and even went over everything with one of the former heads of the department, who expressed his confidence in my experience and confidence that I would be accepted to the program. Read Full Story

Amid the gamut of human ailments and frailties plaguing the world today, medical devices restore and even redefine health.The medical device industry comprises wide varieties of technologies that repair life and augment living. These range from internal pacemakers to external defibrillators, from full-size wheelchairs to small dental implants, and from individualized knee replacements to institution-wide MRI machines. Read Full Story

Ahmad Corbitt is a director in the public affairs department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the former director of the Church’s New York office of public and international affairs. He received a BA in sociology from Richard Stockton college of New Jersey and a law degree from Rutgers University and has been a regular moderator and lecturer on religious freedom, interfaith relations, and public affairs. Before that, he was a trial lawyer, vice president, and general counsel of a New York public communications firm and did extensive public relations work for the Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games. Ahmad is a member of the bars of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and is a member of the Marriott School’s National Advisory Council. He is also one of the 2014 recipients of the Norman Vincent Peel award for positive thinking, an award whose prior recipients include Ronald Reagan and Colin Powell. A former stake president and mission president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he and his wife Jane are the parents of six children. Read Full Story

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Responsible. Authentic. Driven.These are the top three qualities that undergraduate business students identified as being important traits in a great leader. In a study conducted by Svetlana Holt and Joan Marques from Woodbury University, students in five business classes at Woodbury were asked to list qualities that they thought would be essential for a leader to be effective. Of the ten most common traits, “empathy” was consistently rated the lowest (Holt). Read Full Story

Business is simpler than it is made out to be. Al Dunlap argues in his book, Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great, that the principles he teaches, if understood, would make schools of business everywhere obsolete. The way Dunlap writes, basic business principles are broken down very simply (“Remember that business is simple: don’t overintellectualize it,” he writes), which makes the book an easy read for anybody. Part II is the most important part of the book, as it helps his readers get into the mindset of business professionals and learn very generally how to run a business. Dunlap has four simple rules: Read Full Story

Contemporary adults often feel like a juggler keeping multiple balls up in the air, frantically trying not to let one ball drop. Or, they try to balance their external and internal lives equally, like an acrobat standing precariously on a board placed on a ball, teetering from side to side trying not to come crashing down onto the floor. The authors of Beyond Juggling do not think modern life is a hopeless morass of struggle and stress. The aim of Beyond Juggling is to help you, the reader, rebalance your life by achieving three objectives: Read Full Story

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” As we get older, we stop asking each other this question because we are supposed to have already achieved our desires. However, we may not have decided on our life’s mission yet. Jeffery A. Thompson and J. Stuart Bunderson invite everyone to find his or her calling in life and discover that it is never too late to do what you were meant to do. The authors had their own circuitous career paths before settling on teaching and research, and they have taught many individuals who have had their own doubts about whether they were on the right path. The authors’ stories, along with their friends’ stories, led to the publishing of The Zookeeper’s Secret and remind us that it is never too late to discover what we were meant to do. Read Full Story

To attain greater gender equality in the workplace, women must actively lean in to their work, take a seat at the table, and advocate for themselves and other women. Read Full Story

China has rattled the world in a matter of just a few years; the People’s Republic of China has moved from a poverty-stricken nation struggling with an oppressive dictator in 1976 to one of the most powerful and international economies in the world in 2010, only thirty-four years later. According to the World Bank, China’s GDP takes second in the world next to the United States with the annual equivalent of US$11.2 trillion. Read Full Story

Growing up, I never really saw my dad. He was around for the important things, but I knew that his focus wasn’t really on me; it was on his work. Soon after my dad turned fifty-five years old, his workaholic tendencies caught up to him. His heart rate and blood pressure spiked, which caused him to incur some brain damage and increased his risk of a heart attack. After this event, he could no longer function at the same capacity. He couldn’t work, he could hardly socialize, and it would take him years to recover—both mentally and emotionally. This health crisis happened in large part because of his working too much. Read Full Story