Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
It’s nearly a leadership cliché: “Don’t bring me a problem without a solution.” You’ve probably been on the receiving end of a harried manager barking these words at you. You may even have said them yourself. I’ve delivered many keynote programs and […].
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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On The Job
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Great project managers often are described as good communicators, able to delegate tasks and be cool under pressure. But as competition heats up in various industries and the marketplace becomes more globally connected, such qualities won’t be enough to ensure a successful project management career. Instead, those abilities – and others such as emotional intelligence and business savvy – will be demanded by companies looking to gain an edge.
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.
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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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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; […].
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On The Job
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
If you ever lack for conversational openings at a networking event, you can always ask "So, how do you feel about meetings?" The other person is likely to respond with at least several minutes worth of opinion, from "there are too damn many" to "meetings are slowly killing me." There have been many ideas over the years on how to either shorten meetings or eliminate them.
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.
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 […].
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.
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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.
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 9, 2017
Sustained performance over the long term and successful transformation in the near term require many of the same ingredients.
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 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: 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!
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.
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 9, 2017
Major structural shifts in the region will compel retailers to transform their businesses both commercially and operationally.
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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.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Executives in the automotive industry can keep pace with advances in autonomous driving by closely tracking developments.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Sophisticated analytics techniques make zero-based budgeting more feasible, flexible, and profitable than ever for an entire organization.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
How banks can mitigate €120 billion in capital requirements and avoid an ROE haircut.
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.
Speaker: Jennifer Brick, Career Strategist and Author
Your employees have checked out. The last few years have been a wild ride, with countless changes to how we work and our workplace cultures, like the sudden shift to remote work, the return to office, and trends like quiet quitting. With productivity, profitability, and your employer brand on the line, leadership is turning to HR to engage employees and recreate your culture in different working models.
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
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
Strategy+Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Cathy Taylor reviews the best business books on marketing and sales of the year. Leading the pack is Superconsumers, by Eddie Yoon, a highly relatable book that describes how companies can thrive by identifying, catering to, and learning from their most committed and passionate customers. Joseph Turow's The Aisles Have Eyes takes a dim view of the potential uses of big data, analytics, and the Internet of Things to alter the way marketers relate to consumers.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Cutting-edge analytic tools, design thinking, customer insights, and procurement intelligence combine to free your company from the commoditization treadmill.
Speaker: Francoise Tourniaire - Founder of FT Works, Omid Razavi - Chief Advocacy Officer at SupportLogic, and Gregory Walker - Senior Product Manager at SupportLogic
The 'great resignation' and the 'great talent reshuffle' have impacted contact center and customer support staff as much, if not more than, any other part of the workforce. Couple that with a potentially volatile economy and it's clear that organizations must invest in innovative approaches if they want employees who are engaged and informed enough to significantly improve the customer experience and eliminate the high costs associated with agent attrition.
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