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Eight Techniques to Help Your Middle Managers Cultivate Their “Sweet Spot” in Your Organization

Let's Grow Leaders

On paper, your middle managers are in your organization’s sweet spot. They’re the conduits between your strategic vision and the teams who implement that vision. In reality, however, your middle managers are in a tough place. They’re under increasing pressure–from above to […].

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Do Others Have a Negative Opinion About You?

On The Job

I've known many job candidates who cannot figure out why they didn't get the job after what they considered to be a great interview. I've also heard from workers who don't understand why they don't get a promotion after receiving good marks from their bosses. Why do these people fail to get the job or the promotion? New research may explain the reason.

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How the Internet of Things will reshape future production systems

McKinsey

Rich data, ubiquitous connectivity, and real-time communication are changing the way companies work. For leaders, that transformation will extend much further than the machines on the factory floor.

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How to cope with the need for external validation

Penelope Trunk

The reason I’m not homeless after basically taking a year off from writing is that I have been doing a lot of coaching. I say career coaching, but honestly, no one over 30 has a career problem. All problems that look like career problems are really something else. But the only coaching most people can justify spending $350 on is coaching that will lead to making more money.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Professional Development and Training

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ - transforming video engagement with two-way interactivity. With Qvio viewers can ask questions and get instant answers from the content owner's Author-Controlled AI™️.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about Overcoming Setbacks, Resiliancy, and Lessons Learned (with video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is about overcoming setbacks, resiliancy, and lessons learned. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all […].

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How a digital factory can transform company culture

McKinsey

Companies are beginning to use digital factories as incubators of more agile ways of working, often filtering the best attributes of the factory culture back to the larger organization.

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6 films that changed how we think about women in Hollywood

World Economic Forum

This summer saw a major success for a female-fronted, female-directed blockbuster film. It's the latest in a line of other groundbreaking works.

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5 Top Leadership Articles for the Week of September 18, 2017

Let's Grow Leaders

Each week I read a number of leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like […].

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Never Let a Disaster Recovery Go to Waste

Strategy+Business

Rebuilding after a weather event is often harder than the initial response, and business has a big role to play.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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What drives student performance in Latin America?

McKinsey

Our analysis of OECD PISA results from the region offers five findings on student mindsets, teaching practices, technology, instructional hours, and early childhood education.

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An ode to my top commenter

Penelope Trunk

For a while, when I was pregnant and blogs were still new, I was the top commenter on my blog. And of course, every post I write is sort of an ode to me, or at least an ode to the current diatribe-colored glasses I’m wearing. So there was no need for a shout-out. Then I wrote a lot on mainstream media sites, and I didn’t need to write an ode to my top commenters because my bosses did.

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How to improve student educational outcomes: New insights from data analytics

McKinsey

By applying advanced analytics and machine learning, we have identified factors that play a critical role in student achievement.

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Learning innovation in the digital age

McKinsey

As the workplace changes, so must education and training. Exciting experiments are under way—but are they enough?

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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An analytical approach to maximizing reservoir production

McKinsey

Producing assets have significant surface optimization potential. We take a deeper look at what it takes to unlock this value.

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Five Fifty: Evaluate this

McKinsey

Want better performance from your employees? Drop the annual review process and its ill-fitting stack-and-rank ratings approach.

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Savvy and sophisticated: Meet China’s evolving car buyers

McKinsey

Our 2017 survey of Chinese auto consumers shows they’re demanding more from carmakers. How can companies keep up with shifts in this must-win market?

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McKinsey Quarterly 2017 Number 3: Overview and full issue

McKinsey

This issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, explores how digitization will shape global industries, discusses how to make better decisions, provides an action plan for workplace automation, and suggests ways for companies to improve HR.

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eWOW 2023 Virtual Summit #OwnYourGrowth

At eWOW, we are all about holistic growth – personal and professional. Growth that goes beyond a job title and paycheck. This year, eWOW 2023 virtual summit focuses on owning your growth – an action plan that will help you chart your path to success that is unique to you.

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Manufacturing network strategy in a world of unprecedented change

McKinsey

A best-seller from two decades ago proves surprisingly relevant for today’s manufacturing-footprint questions.

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Automation Limitation: Companies Still Need Seasonal Workers

Strategy+Business

Retailers are already announcing ambitious holiday hiring goals, with logistics and delivery firms likely to follow.

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When Is It Dangerous to Declare a Crisis Over?

Strategy+Business

Leaders have a natural desire to put significant issues behind them.

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