Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 8, 2018
“Why does my manager care if I go directly to his boss with an idea? Good ideas are good ideas, right?” “Customers don’t need all that formality. They’re chill. Why can’t I just show up and give them an update?” “When the […]. The post How Do I Convince My Manager I’m a Professional appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
On The Job
MAY 9, 2018
For many job seekers, the first interaction they have with an employer is over the phone. But for some, it may be the first and the last contact if they’re not prepared to follow proper phone interview etiquette. There are several phone interview etiquette issues you need to think about when preparing for a call from an employer. Also—there are several you need to be prepared for when you’re not expecting a call from an employer.
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McKinsey
MAY 11, 2018
Roadways clogged by commercial vehicles and intense competition for affordable housing are imposing costs on prosperous cities and their most vulnerable residents.
Strategy+Business
MAY 10, 2018
In Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me, Andrew Santella explores procrastination, and why it is that whenever there is a job to do, you can count on someone putting it off.
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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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World Economic Forum
MAY 7, 2018
We all struggle to identify fake news, select reliable sources and focus on what really matters. How can we manage the endless stream of information while conveying our own message to the world?
Professional Development Brief brings together the best content for development professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
McKinsey
MAY 10, 2018
The University of Chicago professor explains how executives can battle back against biases that can affect their decision making.
Strategy+Business
MAY 6, 2018
In the face of heightened urgency, some companies are seeking to go "carbon negative" by finding ways to actively pull carbon dioxide from the air and lock it into their products. For manufacturers, this means getting access to carbon-negative raw materials. And they will soon have more options for doing so, thanks to an emerging new industrial sector.
crowdspring
MAY 7, 2018
Your fashion business, like every business, needs a strong visual brand and a professionally designed logo, a website, social media assets and more. Good design is good business. Read on to learn six important reasons why your fashion design business needs good design - and the most import design priorities for your business.
Eat Your Career
MAY 7, 2018
In my work as a career coach, I meet a lot of promising professionals who feel professionally stuck. They complain of being overlooked, unappreciated, passed over, undervalued and ignored. Many of these people feel like victims. It’s my job to help empower them to take responsibility for their part, which is often bigger than they originally thought.
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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
MAY 8, 2018
While there is general agreement that real-world evidence could significantly improve how healthcare stakeholders make decisions, expanding its use requires action by multiple stakeholders.
Strategy+Business
MAY 6, 2018
Digitization has permanently reshaped the global entertainment and media (E&M) ecosystem. The most successful E&M companies have always benefited from multiple revenue streams. But today profitable growth may depend on having five, six, or even more revenue streams -- an often fluid portfolio of bets on areas outside core business and traditional product lines.
Penelope Trunk
MAY 7, 2018
Around 20% of the people I coach are black, and race usually comes up in conversation, but not in a very interesting way. However, recently I coached a black guy who was so interesting that I stayed on the phone with him an extra hour. I used to think transactionally: you pay $350 I talk for an hour. Then I announced a temporary discount to $150 if people call at 7am or 10pm, and I thought I’d be annoyed talking for so low an hourly rate, but I have to admit that I talk to more revolutiona
Vantage Circle
MAY 10, 2018
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. -Mark Twain. You put your heart and soul into building a product or a service, once it is built it is only natural for you to want to show it to the world. But think it through, do you really want to just show it or do you want to grab the attention of your potential consumers?
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
MAY 9, 2018
Platforms are the favored operating model of seven of the world’s 12 largest corporations. So why have so few old-line companies followed suit?
Strategy+Business
MAY 8, 2018
The presence of risk requires robust systems for trading on and underwriting that risk. For that reason, the underwriting of technological change will soon become one of the core competencies that companies must develop or acquire to compete in the bionic age -- an age in which companies will succeed based on their ability to leverage financial, human, natural, behavior, cognitive, and network capital.
McKinsey
MAY 10, 2018
Companies will need to increase automation and streamline their organization if they are not to be overwhelmed by the challenge of sustaining GDPR compliance over the long term.
McKinsey
MAY 10, 2018
From high-tech unicorns to specialty chemicals, the country’s economy is moving swiftly beyond its lower-margin roots.
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McKinsey
MAY 10, 2018
Medical information teams can be a source of differentiation if used strategically. But the evolving environment means pharma manufacturers will need to make organizational enhancements to get ahead.
McKinsey
MAY 11, 2018
The following article is an extract from the annual white paper of the McKinsey Global Insurance Pools team. The report describes global trends in the insurance industry, leveraging the McKinsey Global Insurance Pools database.
McKinsey
MAY 10, 2018
The concept of deep learning has been around since the 1950s. Take a brief look at how it evolved from concept to actuality and the key people who made it happen.
McKinsey
MAY 11, 2018
Early 2018 sees the chemical industry back in position as the top performer in its value chain.
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
MAY 8, 2018
High-profile companies that frequently use consumer data are targets, and negative effects linger for years.
Strategy+Business
MAY 8, 2018
The presence of risk requires robust systems for trading on and underwriting that risk. For that reason, the underwriting of technological change will soon become one of the core competencies that companies must develop or acquire to compete in the bionic age -- an age in which companies will succeed based on their ability to leverage financial, human, natural, behavior, cognitive, and network capital.
Strategy+Business
MAY 6, 2018
Digitization has permanently reshaped the global entertainment and media (E&M) ecosystem. The most successful E&M companies have always benefited from multiple revenue streams. But today profitable growth may depend on having five, six, or even more revenue streams -- an often fluid portfolio of bets on areas outside core business and traditional product lines.
Vantage Circle
MAY 10, 2018
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” . ~ Mark Twain. You put your heart and soul into building a product or a service, once it is built it is only natural for you to want to show it to the world. But think it through, do you really want to just show it or do you want to grab the attention of your potential consumers?
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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