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A look at recent graduates in a mostly remote world Editors note: This story originally appeared in the summer 2021 issue of ASU Thrive magazine. It has been more than a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. In a matter of days, many businesses, schools and other organizations were forced to take operations remote to slow the virus’s spread. ASU students had to connect with their professors through webcams, halt their extracurricular activities and, for the gr...

Expansionist, convener, or broker: How networks impact your personal and professional success This must-read book provides valuable insights into the structure and benefits of networks, and how you can improve your network skills. 0 claps Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection by sociologist Marissa King. “How your network is shaped (consciously or unconsciously) has enormous implications for a wide variety of personal and professional outcomes,” the author begins. Mari...

The U.S. Army information operations (IO) community faces an identity crisis. Army IO officers, known by their career field designation of Functional Area 30 (FA30), are the “staff focal point for IO,” and perform a vital function to synchronize, coordinate, and integrate information effects into unit operations. However, the FA30 community lacks a coherent group identity in part because of a widespread misunderstanding of IO stemming from years of constantly changing doctrine, terminology,...