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Edited -- Essential Leadership Skills: Communication: Articulating a vision, actively listening, providing clear instructions, and fostering open dialogue are vital for effective leadership. Decision-Making: Leaders must be able to analyze situations, weigh options, and make sound judgments, even under pressure. Delegation: Empowering team members by entrusting them with tasks and responsibilities, allowing for growth and development. Building Relationships: Creating a positive and supportive work environment through trust, respect, and open communication. Motivation and Inspiration: Inspiring team members to achieve their full potential and work towards a shared vision. Adaptability: Adjusting to changing circumstances and leading teams through periods of uncertainty and change. Integrity: Maintaining high ethical standards and demonstrating honesty and transparency. Resilience: The ability to bounce back from setbacks and lead teams through challenging situations. Problem-Solving: Identifying issues, analyzing them, and developing effective solutions. Collaboration: Working effectively with others, fostering teamwork, and valuing diverse perspectives. Accountability: Taking responsibility for actions and decisions, and holding oneself and others accountable. Self-Awareness: Understanding one's own strengths and weaknesses, and recognising how these impact the team. Emotional Intelligence: Being aware of one's own emotions and those of others, and using this awareness to build relationships and manage interactions effectively. Creativity and Innovation: Encouraging new ideas and approaches to problem-solving and improvement. Learning Agility: A willingness to learn new skills and adapt to changing situations.
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The concepts of strategy and strategic management have evolved over the years and are the outcome of searching for more effective solutions that could meet the emerging functional challenges of enterprises and non-profit organizations. As a result, many different schools and approaches to formulating strategies have been established. They indicate various factors that make strategic management successful, such as: setting long-term goals, selecting programs and plans for goal implementation (planning school); connecting the enterprise with the environment (environmental school); focusing on competitive advantage and achieved results (positioning school), relying on own resources and competences (resource school), seizing opportunities and creating innovation (school of simple rules); choosing the best option and orientation in business management (school of real options); and taking eclectic approaches that integrate all these theories (Ronda-Pupo & Guerras-Martin, 2012).
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Anne Miller vijayalaxmi Santosh Mhetre
Monday, Jul 21, 2025
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How can I improve my mental health? -- edited
Connecting with others. Humans are social creatures, and it's important to have strong, healthy relationships with others. Having good social support may help protect you against the harms of stress. It is also good to have different types of connections. Besides connecting with family and friends, you could find ways to get involved with your community or neighborhood. For example, you could volunteer for a local organization or join a group that is focused on a hobby you enjoy.
Developing a sense of meaning and purpose in life. This could be through your job, volunteering, learning new skills, or exploring your spirituality.
Developing coping skills, which are methods you use to deal with stressful situations. They may help you face a problem, take action, be flexible, and not easily give up in solving it.
Meditation, which is a mind and body practice where you learn to focus your attention and awareness. There are many types, including mindfulness meditation and transcendental meditation. Meditation usually involves:
A quiet location with as few distractions as possible
A specific, comfortable posture. This could be sitting, lying down, walking, or another position.
A focus of attention, such as a specially chosen word or set of words, an object, or your breathing
An open attitude, where you try to let distractions come and go naturally without judging them
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Smoke test: Stress management
Stress management offers a range of ways to help you better deal with stress and difficulty, also called adversity, in your life. Managing stress can help you lead a more balanced, healthier life.
Stress is an automatic physical, mental and emotional response to a difficult event. It's a common part of everyone's life. When used positively, stress can lead to growth, action and change. But negative, long-term stress can lessen your quality of life.
Stress management approaches include:
Learning skills such as problem-solving, focusing on important tasks first and managing your time.
Improving your ability to cope with difficult events that happen in life. For example, you may learn how to improve your emotional awareness and reactions. You also may learn how to increase your sense of control. And you may find greater meaning and purpose in life and have more gratitude and optimism.
Practicing relaxation techniques such as deep breathing, yoga, meditation, tai chi, exercise and prayer.
Improving your personal relationships.
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Smoke test: The top food sources -- edited
Federal guidelines suggest minimum daily amounts for vitamins and key minerals. However, unless you need to increase your intake for specific ones because of a deficiency or other medical reason, following so many numbers can be confusing.
The best approach to ensure you get a variety of vitamins and minerals, and in the proper amounts, is to adopt a broad healthy diet. This involves an emphasis on fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans and legumes, low-fat protein, and dairy products. The good news is that many common foods contain multiple mineral and vitamin sources, so it is easy to meet your daily needs from everyday meals.
Here are some of the best foods for vitamins and minerals from the Harvard Medical School Special Heath
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The best approach to ensure you get a variety of vitamins and minerals, and in the proper amounts, is to adopt a broad healthy diet. This involves an emphasis on fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans and legumes, low-fat protein, and dairy products. The good news is that many common foods contain multiple mineral and vitamin sources, so it is easy to meet your daily needs from everyday meals.
Here are some of the best foods for vitamins and minerals from the Harvard Medical School Special Heath
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Posted by: Smoke Test: How To Ensure You Get The Right Vitamins And Minerals In The Right Amounts. -- Edited
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Smoke test: Two types of each Vitamins are divided into two categories: water soluble—which means the body expels what it does not absorb—and fat soluble where leftover amounts are stored in the liver and fat tissues as reserves. The water-soluble vitamins are the eight B vitamins (B-1, B-2, B-3, B-5, B-6, B-7, B-9, and B-12) and vitamin C. The fat-soluble vitamins are A, D, E, and K. There are many minerals, but certain ones are necessary for optimal health. Minerals are split into two groups: major and trace. Major ones are not necessarily more important than trace, but it means there are greater amounts in your body. --- edited
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What are the complications of diabetes? -- edited
Diabetes can lead to acute (sudden and severe) and long-term complications — mainly due to extreme or prolonged high blood sugar levels.
Acute diabetes complications
Acute diabetes complications that can be life-threatening include:
Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS): This complication mainly affects people with Type 2 diabetes. It happens when your blood sugar levels are very high (over 600 milligrams per deciliter or mg/dL) for a long period, leading to severe dehydration and confusion. It requires immediate medical treatment.
Diabetes-related ketoacidosis (DKA): This complication mainly affects people with Type 1 diabetes or undiagnosed T1D. It happens when your body doesn’t have enough insulin. If your body doesn’t have insulin, it can’t use glucose for energy, so it breaks down fat instead. This process eventually releases substances called ketones, which turn your blood acidic. This causes labored breathing, vomiting and loss of consciousness. DKA requires immediate medical treatment.
Severe low blood sugar (hypoglycemia): Hypoglycemia happens when your blood sugar level drops below the range that’s healthy for you. Severe hypoglycemia is very low blood sugar. It mainly affects people with diabetes who use insulin. Signs include blurred or double vision, clumsiness, disorientation and seizures. It requires treatment with emergency glucagon and/or medical intervention.
Long-term diabetes complications
Blood glucose levels that remain high for too long can damage your body’s tissues and organs. This is mainly due to damage to your blood vessels and nerves, which support your body’s tissues.
Cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) issues are the most common type of long-term diabetes complication. They include:
Coronary artery disease.
Heart attack.
Stroke.
Atherosclerosis.
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Tuesday, Apr 29, 2025
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Smoke test: What causes diabetes? -- edited
Too much glucose circulating in your bloodstream causes diabetes, regardless of the type. However, the reason why your blood glucose levels are high differs depending on the type of diabetes.
Causes of diabetes include:
Insulin resistance: Type 2 diabetes mainly results from insulin resistance. Insulin resistance happens when cells in your muscles, fat and liver don’t respond as they should to insulin. Several factors and conditions contribute to varying degrees of insulin resistance, including obesity, lack of physical activity, diet, hormonal imbalances, genetics and certain medications.
Autoimmune disease: Type 1 diabetes and LADA happen when your immune system attacks the insulin-producing cells in your pancreas.
Hormonal imbalances: During pregnancy, the placenta releases hormones that cause insulin resistance. You may develop gestational diabetes if your pancreas can’t produce enough insulin to overcome the insulin resistance. Other hormone-related conditions like acromegaly and Cushing syndrome can also cause Type 2 diabetes.
Pancreatic damage: Physical damage to your pancreas — from a condition, surgery or injury — can impact its ability to make insulin, resulting in Type 3c diabetes.
Genetic mutations: Certain genetic mutations can cause MODY and neonatal diabetes.
Long-term use of certain medications can also lead to Type 2 diabetes, including HIV/AIDSmedications and corticosteroids.edited
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