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Crucial Influence: Leadership Skills for Behavior Change

Course DescriptionWhen facing persistent, resistant challenges, leaders often surrender to poor results or invest in change efforts that waste time and resources. And yet it’s possible to influence behavior with surprisingly predictable success. For the past thirty years, we’ve studied leaders with a proven ability to influence rapid, profound and sustainable change. And here’s what we know: human behavior is grounded in six sources of influence. Effective leaders know how to leverage and apply these sources of influence to solve everyday leadership challenges.

South African social media reveals contested battle over masculine norms

The National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence, which was released in 2020, pledged to combat harmful gender norms. However, a new study reveals that the battle over what it means to "be a man" ...

Outrage Is Not a Strategy: Safe Activism Requires Strategy

Safe Activism Requires Strategy” is a Zoom-based educational session designed to provide participants with clinical, psychological, and practical considerations relevant to attending protests, ...

Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

Hey y’all, Kartik, Ishaan, and Christian from Omnara (https://www.omnara.com/) here. We’re building a web and mobile agentic IDE for Claude Code and Codex that lets you run and interact with coding agents from anywhere. Omnara lets you run Claude Code and Codex sessions on your own machine, and exposes those sessions through a web and mobile interface so you can stay involved even when you’re away from your desk. Think of it like Claude Code Desktop or Conductor, except you can co

Personalized Property Management Shares Expert Tips for Improving HOA Community Engagement

Southern California Management Leader Offers Practical Strategies to Boost Resident Participation in Palm Springs Area ...

ShinePages Expands Platform to Support Community-Driven Coaching and Client Engagement

As coaching businesses prioritize deeper relationships and ongoing engagement, platforms are adapting to support more ...

Alumni Success Stories

Online alumni are well-prepared for careers across industries. The education they have received has positioned them for ...

Improve your life by embracing everyday, even mundane, conversations? Research says yes.

It’s 6 a.m. on a Saturday. You slept terribly and can think only of coffee. Bundled up in your baggiest sweats, hat pulled down over your hair and dark sunglasses for anonymity, you slink into the ...

New research highlights the importance of social engagement for cognitive health

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a direct causal effect between social isolation and a faster decline in later- life cognitive function. Pathological cognitive decline is most often driven by Alzheimer's and related dementias.

Effective Virtual Collaboration for Hybrid and Remote Teams

Organizations will need to pivot their corporate culture if they wish to survive and thrive in the world of virtual collaboration after the pandemic. The most important changes will stem from the wide ...

Korean love game, Blue Whale, Pokemon Go; online games linked to death

From the Korean Love Game to Blue Whale and even Pokémon Go, online games have repeatedly raised alarms worldwide. What ...

Scientists identify a brain region that differs between males and females and may influence social behavior

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown cluster of brain cells that may help explain differences in social behavior between males and females. The small neural circuit appears to function like ...

AI “Mind Control” Can Stop Animal Behaviors in a Split Second

Researchers developed an advanced AI system named YORU that can identify specific animal behaviors with over 90% accuracy across multiple species.

What to Make of Social Media’s ‘Chinese Era’

Social media users are “becoming Chinese” just in time for the Lunar New Year. But what’s behind the trend, and will it last?

Show HN: I'm 75, Building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol

Hi HN,I am a 75-year-old former fishmonger from Japan. Currently, I work at the compensation desk for the Fukushima nuclear disaster (TEPCO). Witnessing deep social divisions and the limitations of bureaucracy firsthand, I realized we need a new way for people to express their will without being "disposable."To address this, I’ve designed the *Virtual Protest Protocol (VPP)*. It’s an OSS framework for large-scale, 2D avatar-based digital demonstrations. I recently shared this with the

Selene Finance Unveils First Phase Of Its Borrower Assistance Campaign

Selene Finance LP has launched the first phase of Selene Cares+, a borrower assistance campaign aimed at streamlining ...

Technology should enhance communication

Technology enhances workplace communication through tools like Slack, Zoom, and email, but must balance face-to-face interactions for effective collaboration.

Silverback Webinar Releases Overview of Its Webinar Platform and the Role of Structured Virtual Events

February 02, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Silverback Webinar has issued an announcement detailing the structure, purpose, ...

Lauradate Identifies Emerging Patterns in Online Communication in 2026

GIBRALTAR, Feb. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Lauradate has identified several emerging patterns that shape how people communicate on online dating platforms in early 2026. These patterns reflect a ...

What to Do if Your Child Engages in Online Gaming Bullying

Online gaming can teach teamwork—but it can also expose kids to conflict. Here’s how to guide your child if they become the aggressor.