Sat.Jun 10, 2017 - Fri.Jun 16, 2017

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Give Pointers on Handling Conflict

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is about handling conflict in your team. 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 about building brand awareness. What approaches are you and your team using to build your organization’s brand?

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Creativity’s bottom line: How winning companies turn creativity into business value and growth

McKinsey

Top-performing companies use four key management practices to turn creativity into value.

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Are Professional Certifications Worth It?

Eat Your Career

One question I get a lot is around the topic of professional certifications. People want to know if they’re worth it. After all, professional certifications cost hundreds—if not thousands—of dollars. And most require a significant investment of time and energy on top of it. So, do professional certifications actually have a measurable career payoff?

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Design for Your Strengths

Strategy+Business

If you want to succeed at anything truly difficult, you have to design a learning process that builds on the things you do best. Through experiences such as his training in Olympic speed skating, and in his coaching of and working with others, John Coyle has come to recognize four key rules inherent in designing for your strengths: Accept your weaknesses; recognize your specific strengths; solve the right problem (which is not necessarily the problem other people have diagnosed for you); and, fi

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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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How to Help a Task Master Focus on People

Let's Grow Leaders

“I’m just not a people person.” “I hate this touchy-feely crap.” “See that! I’m a ‘C’ on the DiSC assessment this just doesn’t come naturally to me. Now let me get back to work!” Of course, all this may be true, for you, or for a manager that you’re working to develop. It’s also true, that if you want results that last, you can’t ignore the human side of teams.

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How artificial intelligence can deliver real value to companies

McKinsey

Companies new to the space can learn a great deal from early adopters who have invested billions into AI and are now beginning to reap a range of benefits.

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11 Types of Strategic Maturity: Which One Describes Your Company?

Strategy+Business

A quick interactive diagnostic tool shows whether your strategy is coherent, how well it stacks up against your competitors, and how you can improve it.

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How Virtual Reality Will Shape Our Future with Fabrice Bourrelly

Lateral Action

This week’s guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Fabrice Bourrelly, artist, architect and Virtual Reality designer. As Fabrice talks about his development as a creator, the conversation ranges from the cave paintings of southern France, to raves in 90s Paris, collaboration with Thomas Heatherwick, Google and Epic Games, and how virtual reality will […].

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The future of grocery—in store and online

McKinsey

As so much of everyday life moves to the Internet, including grocery shopping, grocers must find profitable ways to revive the in-store experience while enhancing online options.

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Landing the megadeal: Seven keys to closing big sales that make money

McKinsey

Your salesforce needs help to remain objective, build trust, get the price right, and keep selling until the deal is done.

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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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A new emphasis on gainful employment in India

McKinsey

As India’s labor market shifts, it is time to focus on improved quality of work and the income derived from it, not simply the number of jobs being lost or created.

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What’s next for pharma in emerging markets?

McKinsey

Succeeding in emerging markets has been a challenging undertaking for multinational pharma companies, but those that adapt their end-to-end model for emerging markets could well thrive.

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The benefits of thinking like an activist investor

McKinsey

Whether or not your company is in the crosshairs of activists, assembling a team to take a good, hard look at your performance can deliver benefits.

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McKinsey Quarterly 2017 Number 2: Overview and full issue

McKinsey

This issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, connects the dots among global trends, offers advice for CEOs on how to become more successful leaders, and explores digital reinvention.

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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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Reimagining supply-chain collaboration in a low-oil-price environment

McKinsey

A new approach to collaboration, within a company, between suppliers, and across the industry, could unlock savings that would increase profitability and safety.

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Economic Nationalism and the Future of Global R&D

Strategy+Business

A new survey examines how political and economic shifts can affect corporate innovation.

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Implications of a border adjustment tax

McKinsey

The US is debating a number of trade and tax proposals, including a border adjustment tax (BAT) that could significantly affect both crude and refined product markets.

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Speed Meets Variety in Amazon's Deal for Whole Foods

Strategy+Business

The $13.7 billion agreement may help both retailers overcome some of their biggest hurdles.

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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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Innovation from Farm to Table

Strategy+Business

As a result of an unprecedented convergence of advances in biology, agronomy, plant and animal science, digitization, and robotics, the private sector is making larger investments in agricultural R&D. The result of such investment has been innovations designed to increase yields, enhance the productivity of agricultural equipment, and promote sustainability -- all of which are essential to meeting the world's growing food needs.

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One Doctor's Take on How to Fix the Sick Healthcare System

Strategy+Business

In his new book, Mistreated, Permanente Medical Group CEO Robert Pearl diagnoses the woes afflicting one of the country's largest industries.

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A Jobless Recovery in Coal

Strategy+Business

Hiring people is often a last resort, even when an industry is growing.

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