Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
It’s our pleasure today to bring you a guest post from Scott Mautz, author of Find the Fire: Reignite Your Inspiration and Make Work Exciting Again. -Karin & David Believe it or not, we’re actually now spending more time with coworkers than family; […].
Career Advancement
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower~. At a team meeting, Valerie pitched a marketing strategy she’d been thinking about for a while. A fellow team member vocally outlined a number of holes in the plan, leaving Valerie feeling shaken. She’d believed this was the best idea she’d ever brought to the table.
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McKinsey
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Myths aside, artificial intelligence is as prone to bias as the human kind. The good news is that the biases in algorithms can also be diagnosed and treated.
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 5, 2017
Have a problem with follow-up on your team? Neuroscience can help.
Advertiser: Paycor
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.
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Last week, we were wrapping up our final session of a six-month strategic management intensive with a group of engineering managers by helping them to synthesize what they’d learned. In addition to a number of more mainstream techniques, we asked them to […].
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
The erosion of US manufacturing isn’t a foregone conclusion. The decade ahead—with increased demand, new technology, and value chain optimization—will give the sector a chance to turn around.
Professional Development Brief brings together the best content for development professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
If policy makers and businesses get it right, linking the physical and digital worlds could generate up to $11.1 trillion a year in economic value by 2025.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Prioritizing efforts in four areas could help cities achieve 90 to 100 percent of the emissions reductions needed by 2030.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Leaders need to determine what AI can do for their company by looking at potential applications and scenarios and then building their approach around those findings.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa hold tremendous growth potential for consumer-centric, digitally savvy companies that take a long-term view.
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
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Clear and frequent communication is essential but often lacking in companies’ cybersecurity programs. Here’s how security professionals can create tighter bonds with some critical stakeholders.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
How banks can mitigate €120 billion in capital requirements and avoid an ROE haircut.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
The digital world has given manufacturers new ways to engage consumers, but online direct-to-consumer models are a mixed bag. Which ones actually work?
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Executives in the automotive industry can keep pace with advances in autonomous driving by closely tracking developments.
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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.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
Major structural shifts in the region will compel retailers to transform their businesses both commercially and operationally.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Consumers are willing to pay more for choice in their interactions, yet most companies remain perplexed about which ones their customers really want—and how much to charge for them.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
Digitization hasn’t spelled the end of paper and forest products, but it is requiring that leaders think differently about growth opportunities.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Sophisticated analytics techniques make zero-based budgeting more feasible, flexible, and profitable than ever for an entire organization.
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.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Over recent years, there has been growing concern about the under-representation of women in leadership across industry. Organisations are deploying a range of strategies to address the known issues affecting women’s advancement. .
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Lean management’s end-to-end perspective revealed the power in remaking customer journeys. Adding digital and agile makes these transformations easier, quicker, and more sustainable than ever—and at unprecedented scale.
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Ryan Avent writes that this year's best business books on economics all look back, with various degrees of pessimism on the construction of the post-World War II order, and on its demise. Marc Levinson's An Extraordinary Time chronicles the remarkable growth of the period between 1945 and 1973 -- and suggests the problems that have cropped up in the past 40 years represent a reversion to the mean.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
What’s shifting in the world’s second-largest luxury market? To keep up, brands will need to confront challenges and explore new strategies.
Advertiser: Paycor
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.
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
One of the largest commodity exchanges has started offering futures contracts on the cryptocurrency.
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Our writers' selection of the year's best business book in seven categories.
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Duff McDonald writes that 2017's best business books on management all draw their inspiration from neuroscience. It turns out that we are gaining new insight into how to use our knowledge of how the brain works to make better decisions and work more effectively. The best of the crop, Stealing Fire, by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal, is a thrilling tour through the ways organizations as diverse as Red Bull and the Navy SEALs are harnessing the concept of flow.
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
This year's best business books on innovation offer insights into the way big data and new technologies are upending how we consider consumer needs and decision making. In Competing against Luck, Clayton Christensen and his coauthors argue that customers effectively hire products and services to do a job -- and that this insight should inform innovation strategy.
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!
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Each year, strategy+business taps expert journalists, academics, and practitioners to review the best business books of the past year in seven genres: Innovation, Strategy, Narratives, Leadership, Economics, Marketing, and Management. The resulting essays cover volumes thin and thick, bestsellers and less-promoted volumes from academic presses, investigations of the past and forecasts for the future.
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Sally Helgesen writes that this year's best business books on leadership hammer home the importance of such human values as flexibility, humility, and courage. Sam Walker's The Captain Class describes the ways athletic success rests on team captains, whose leadership capabilities are as impressive as their athletic capabilities. One Mission, by Chris Fussell with C.W.
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Bethany McLean reviews the best business books of the year that take the form of narratives, and they focus on issues of crime and punishment -- or lack of punishment. In Why They Do It, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes gets up close and personal with dozens of white-collar criminals to learn how they went astray. Cyrus Bozorgmehr, in Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, tells the bizarre, rollicking story of how Wu-Tang Clan set out to record an album that would be sold to -- and heard b
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
This year's best business books on strategy focus to different degrees on the importance and practice of innovation, Ken Favaro writes. The most compelling of this year's crop is If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat, in which Leonard Sherman describes how market-leading companies can continue to build profitable growth over the long term. In The Net and the Butterfly, Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack investigate the neuroscience behind innovation and lay out a detailed road map for how execu
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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.
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