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Winning Well on CBS Baltimore with Gigi Barnett

Let's Grow Leaders

Today I’m delighted to share my Winning Well interview with Gigi Barnett on CBS Baltimore. Thanks for all you are doing to help spread the Winning Well word. Excited to see so many teams using it for their Spring Book groups. Would love to hear your insights and application. If you’re enjoying Winning Well, we would really appreciate your leaving an Amazon review.

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Why You Must Learn to Work With Other Departments

On The Job

In the past, the only time the tech department and those in finance or business operations might have interacted was at the annual holiday party. But even then, the employees pretty much huddled with their own department, like Super Bowl teams plotting the next interception. But it’s a different story these days, as more companies encourage – or even require – cross-functional collaboration.

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How blockchains could change the world

McKinsey

Ignore Bitcoin’s challenges. In this interview, Don Tapscott explains why blockchains, the technology underpinning the cryptocurrency, have the potential to revolutionize the world economy.

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Write Great Blog Posts starts tonight! Last chance to sign up.

Penelope Trunk

Here is some feedback from other people who have taken writing courses with me: Penelope is absolutely brilliant at cutting through the b t. – Cheryl C. Your writing course is a way better crash course than anything I got in college. – Caitlin. As a writer, you’d think I’d just write my own testimonials, but the research that shows people instinctively know a fake testimonial.

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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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Is Your Mom a Winning Well Leader?

Let's Grow Leaders

Moms are full of wisdom, aren’t they? Many leaders credit their moms for their influence, such as: Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. ~ Stevie Wonder. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln.

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Why the customer experience matters

McKinsey

Truly understanding customer needs may help companies improve not only the buying experience but also their bottom line.

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Small Customer Today, Revenue Giant Tomorrow

Strategy+Business

With a new approach to segmentation, incumbents can find their "growth hot spots," those high-potential customers obscured by more traditional segmentation methods. Sales leaders need to consider two critical but often overlooked factors when assessing their current and future customers: needs and behaviors. When combined with value, these indicators will reveal the customers whose strategic direction and operating model come together in a way that could make them huge sources of revenue.

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An operating model for company-wide agile development

McKinsey

Organizations are succeeding with agile software and product development in discrete projects and teams. To do so in multiple business units and product groups, they must rethink foundational processes, structures, and relationships.

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How pharma companies can better understand patients

McKinsey

Consumers have access to more healthcare information than ever. Here’s how pharmaceutical companies can better understand the way people make decisions about their care.

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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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Why digital transformation should be a strategic priority for health insurers

McKinsey

Digital technologies and applications have the potential to markedly enhance a payor’s profits. Leadership from the top is necessary to overcome the organizational resistance to change that can make a digital transformation difficult.

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Mergers in a low-oil price environment: Proceed with caution

McKinsey

A deal deluge typically follows an oil-price collapse—but hasn’t always created value. Past cycles teach that deals enabling players to lower costs will probably be most valuable in today’s volatile oil-price world.

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Five priorities for competing in an era of digital globalization

McKinsey

As digital flows command a growing share of trade and economic growth, executives must answer new questions.

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Winning the rush for data services in the Middle East and Africa

McKinsey

Demand for data is set to explode. The region’s telecom companies must position themselves now to take advantage.

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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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The ‘tech bubble’ puzzle

McKinsey

Public and private capital markets seem to value technology companies differently. Here's why.

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Creating value from M&A—advantage Asia?

McKinsey

Differences in the market’s response to deal announcements reflect how deals are funded as much as expected performance.

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Private equity in Korea: A discussion with Scott Hahn

McKinsey

A pioneer investor explains why these are early days for buyouts in South Korea, the 11th-largest economy in the world.

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Share and Share Alike

Strategy+Business

In his new book, New York University professor Arun Sundararajan paints a rosy picture of the revolutionary companies and platforms that are altering the nature of work.

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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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Room for Improvement at the Top

Strategy+Business

Every day, millions of people go to work at companies, organizations, and institutions run by women. Over time, this may lead to a higher proportion of women CEOs.

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How reducing gender inequality could boost U.S. GDP by $2.1 trillion

McKinsey

Gender equality is an economically "smart" thing to do. The U.S. could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women in the workforce, write Kweilin Ellingrud, James Manyika, and Vivian Riefberg in Harvard Business Review.

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The long and the short of stock-market volatility

McKinsey

Short-term measures of volatility can fluctuate wildly. But over the long term the market has been remarkably stable.

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Come Together

Strategy+Business

With regulatory and competitive pressures rising, and profits falling, the U.S. banking industry must consolidate to gain scale and lower its cost structure.

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Cancel Quiet Quitting: Detoxing Corporate Culture & Engaging Top Talent

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.

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5 myths about America's gender gap

McKinsey

Although women make up about 46% of the workforce there exist significant inequality which has huge economic costs. Advancing women's equality in the workplace could add $2 trillion to GDP in the next decade write Kweilin Ellingrud and Vivian Riefberg, in Time.com.

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A summit of opportunity

McKinsey

Africa is no longer just a continent in need—indeed, it has become a place of opportunity. African economies offer a higher rate of return on foreign direct investment than most emerging economies, write James Manyika and Susan Lund in Foreign Policy.

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Say It Loud

Strategy+Business

Are women hindered in advancing up the career ladder because they don't articulate their desire and expectations for promotion?

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Managing the market’s reaction to M&A deals

McKinsey

Announcement effects are a good instant measure of market sentiment but a poor indicator of longer-term value creation.

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Top Techniques for Coaching Your Contact Center Agents

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.