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Authentic Leadership: 5 Big Mistakes that Can Derail Your Influence

Let's Grow Leaders

Impactful authentic leadership requires careful judgment and context. Authentic leadership matters even more during times of stress, uncertainty, and change. Of course, you want your team to be real with you. You can’t help them if you don’t know what’s really going on. And if you’re not real with them, they won’t be real with you.

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Strategy for a digital world

McKinsey

A winning digital strategy requires new twists to familiar moves.

Strategy 144
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Top 30 Employee Retention Strategies for the "New" Work World!

Vantage Circle

Retain your best employees with these Top 30 Employee Retention Strategies and build a positive work atmosphere to promote engagement.

Strategy 240
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How to Work With (and For) Difficult People

Eat Your Career

Let’s be honest: The workplace is full of difficult people! You aren’t going to “love” everyone you work with or for, but you still have to find a way to create productive working relationships with them. Otherwise, work can quickly turn into a stressful—even traumatic—situation, which can ultimately damage your performance, reputation, and long-term career opportunities.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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Good Comes First with Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt

Let's Grow Leaders

As a business leader, how do you create a purposeful, positive, and productive work environment for you employees and customers while improving your bottom line? In short, “good” comes first. Your culture is imperative. In this episode, culture experts Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt give you a practical roadmap to building the culture you want (hint – it takes commitment and accountability equal to your focus on results).

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From tech tool to business asset: How banks are using B2B APIs to fuel growth

McKinsey

Banks can use APIs to generate income growth from corporate customer segments, improve customer experience, and fuel innovation.

Banking 144

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An entrepreneur in Nigeria has found value from used car tyres

World Economic Forum

Entrepreneur Ifedolapo Runsewe has set up an industrial plant dedicated to transforming old tyres into high-demand goods which can help the community.

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Managing Up With Grace (How to Give Your Boss Better Feedback With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

How To Get Better at Managing Up (Even With the Tough Feedback). Karin, I want to get better at managing up. But it’s hard. And, I’m scared. How do I do this well? #AskingForAFriend. Your boss is an imperfect human, doing the best they can. Just like you. They don’t brush their teeth in the morning dreaming up ways to be more difficult and frustrating to you and the rest of the team.

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Can Japan finally become a start-up power?

McKinsey

Long viewed as a relative laggard, Japan’s start-up ecosystem is beginning to come into its own. Investor Paul McInerney sheds light on the evolving environment for entrepreneurs.

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Thought Leaders and Masters

ReNew Business

I did a search on my LinkedIn network and found that 1.580.000 people I am connected with have “thought leader” in their description. That’s a lot of thought leaders. I have met several (not as many) who actually present themselves as such. On Wikipedia I also read that thought leader is a “business jargon”. I agree! Let’s look at the origins then where everything started.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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How Might We | FourSight

FourSight

“How might we…” Those are 3 of the most powerful words in innovation. Learn a turn of language that can transform a complaint into a question that draws fresh ideas and new thinking.

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Top 20 Employee Recognition Tools in 2021

Vantage Circle

Employee recognition plays a vital role in helping businesses deliver a near-perfect employee experience. And with the rise in hybrid work, companies are redoubling their efforts to develop a robust reward and recognition program. They realize that they need to move beyond typical measures such as long service awards. They need digital tools that enable recognition in the flow of work.

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The digital future of manufacturing consumer packaged goods

McKinsey

Nearly two years of tumult have accelerated disruption, with lasting effects on society and business. To thrive in the consumer-packaged- goods industry, digital and analytics are now essential.

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Author Talks: Indra Nooyi on leadership, life, and crafting a better future

McKinsey

The trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo discusses the events that shaped her life and offers a blueprint for work–family conundrums.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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Author Talks: Parag Khanna on the forces creating a new geography of opportunity

McKinsey

Parag Khanna provides a vision of the next phase of human civilization—one that is both mobile and sustainable.

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Supporting unpaid caregivers in crisis: A talk with Alexandra Drane

McKinsey

The CEO of Archangels reveals startling new insights on the health of American unpaid caregivers amid the COVID-19 crisis.

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Unlocking the banking technology workforce

McKinsey

Leading banks have made deep-seated changes to their technology spending priorities, role mix, and talent mix, unlocking a step change in productivity.

Banking 118
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Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, September 2021

McKinsey

Rapid growth and strong demand bump against pandemic-related disruptions; energy prices surge, but long-term inflation expectations remain moderate.

Finance 115
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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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How CPG companies can sell online profitably

McKinsey

Making a profit in e-commerce can be a struggle for consumer-packaged-goods manufacturers. Two McKinsey experts discuss the problem—and potential solutions.

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Transforming customer experience in utilities

McKinsey

Utility leaders are achieving great customer experiences while driving out costs. Doing so requires customer-experience transformations around self-service and digital channels.

Utilities 111
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Forward Thinking on economies beyond COVID-19 with Michael Spence

McKinsey

A Nobel laureate explores postpandemic prospects, explaining why his cautious optimism about the economic recovery has been replaced by concern related to the slow vaccine rollout in lower-income economies, fragile supply chains, and extreme weather events.

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Mastering change: The new CFO mandate

McKinsey

New research shows that now is the time for finance leaders to lean into the evolution of their roles and reassert themselves as strategic partners and digital enablers to the business.

Finance 102
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How to Set Better OKRs and Drive Results

Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.

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Pfizer’s mix of science and grit alters the course of its COVID-19 response

McKinsey

Angela Hwang, Pfizer’s head of biopharmaceuticals, talks about breaking new ground when the pressure is on—and how having a deep company heritage can help.

IT 101
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Global payments 2021: Transformation amid turbulent undercurrents

McKinsey

The global payments sector is poised for a quick return to healthy growth, but the benefits will not flow evenly to all participants.

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How affordable is mental healthcare? The long-term impact on financial health

McKinsey

Those who report mental illness have disproportionately faced economic disadvantages and report greater financial stress.

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Crossing the horizon: North American asset management in the 2020s

McKinsey

The past 18 months have planted multiple seeds of disruption which are setting a dynamic new horizon of growth for the industry in the coming decade.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Accelerating pandemic response efforts: An interview with CEPI’s Richard Hatchett

McKinsey

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations explains his five-year strategy that includes reducing vaccine timelines.

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Future-proofing the organization the ‘helix’ way

McKinsey

The German auto supplier ZF Friedrichshafen is reinventing a key division. Its head of transformation explains how separating the company’s people leadership from its product lines improves both.

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For Bond Analysts | No. 44

McKinsey

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.

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Viva Implementers! | FourSight

FourSight

It was six hours before the big workshop in Las Vegas. 88 people were signed up, and less than half had done their FourSight assessment. The group activity I planned to facilitate hinged on knowing people’s profiles. It wasn’t going to work with half the results.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act

Speaker: Speakers:

On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Retail Worker Safety Act (S. 8358B/A. 8947C) into law, requiring retail employers in New York to adopt workplace violence prevention policies and implement training programs by March 2025. This webinar will provide a detailed overview of the Act’s requirements, including developing and providing a retail workplace violence prevention policy/plan and delivering annual interactive training to employees.