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5 Sentences to Energize and Support Your Volunteers (and everyone is a volunteer)

Let's Grow Leaders

I was cycling from Breckenridge, Colorado up Vail Pass on a recent Sunday afternoon. What I hadn’t anticipated was that the Copper Triangle, a major cycling event, was happening at the same time, and I soon found myself slowly climbing up the steep […].

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The new dynamics of financial globalization

McKinsey

Cross-border capital flows have fallen 65 percent since the financial crisis as global banks retrenched, but a more stable form of financial globalization is emerging.

Banking 111
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Looking for a Better IT Project Manager? Try the Hybrid Model

Strategy+Business

As business and technology strategies become more integrated, companies need an IT manager who can watch the bottom line and communicate, as well as do the hard coding.

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Career Lessons Learned from the 2017 Solar Eclipse

Eat Your Career

Those of you who have read my blog for a while know that I’m always looking for career lessons in the strangest of places. This past Monday, I found a few in the sky. Here in the U.S., we experienced our first total eclipse of the sun since the 1970’s. It was quite a sensation, as the “ path of totality ” spread all the way across the country. Enormous groups of eclipse enthusiasts gathered at various points along the way to appreciate the rare phenomenon.

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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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5 Sentences to Energize and Support Your Volunteers (and everyone is a volunteer)

Let's Grow Leaders

I was cycling from Breckenridge, Colorado up Vail Pass on a recent Sunday afternoon. What I hadn’t anticipated was that the Copper Triangle, a major cycling event, was happening at the same time, and I soon found myself slowly climbing up the steep mountain while hundreds of cyclists were racing down. A mile and a quarter before the summit, one of those speeding cyclists clipped the wheel of another rider and was thrown from his bike about 10 yards in front of me landing on his head.

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Mastering three strategies of organic growth

McKinsey

Organic growth is key to companies’ futures. According to survey results, the best firms follow more than one path to achieve it and also are better at developing the right capabilities to support it.

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How to make sure your digital transformation succeeds

McKinsey

Successful digital transformations require clarity, urgency, and planning. Jürgen Meffert, co-author of Digital @ Scale, explains how it’s done.

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When B2B buyers want to go digital—and when they don’t

McKinsey

New research indicates where to focus digital investments so that they will reap rewards in online and face-to-face channels.

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Five new truths about zero-based budgeting

McKinsey

Five new myths and realities illustrate how the potential of zero-based budgeting has grown.

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A 360-degree approach to patient adherence

McKinsey

When patients don’t follow treatment regimens, outcomes worsen and costs rise. An insights-driven approach can help.

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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 map for strategic growth in banking

McKinsey

Portfolio strategists need to look beyond economic development when eyeing new investment.

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Regaining mobile’s grip on network connectivity

McKinsey

While mobile operators struggle to tap into adjacent pools of value, they could be overlooking real threats to their core business.

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Harnessing scale to drive successful digital transformations

McKinsey

Successful digitization calls for bold moves: scale and reinvention of the core.

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The two faces of fashion-industry performance

McKinsey

Top-quintile companies are the engines of value creation. Digitization and better in-store experiences will drive future gains.

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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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The new spring of artificial intelligence: A few early economies

McKinsey

Artificial intelligence is experiencing a new spring and is here to stay It can bring firm-level productivity and profit growth, with employment dynamics that may not be as bad as anticipated by some, write Jacques Bughin and Eric Hazan in VOX.

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Is growth taking root?

McKinsey

Higher oil prices early in the year helped the OFSE sector recover in Q2 2017, driven by strong growth in North American shale, and the promise of an improvement elsewhere.

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Fighting commoditization in chemicals with a better commercial model

McKinsey

Windfalls on feedstocks and emerging-market growth have masked the margin damage from increasing commoditization.

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How Teamwork Will Transform Healthcare

Strategy+Business

In the emerging health economy, all participants will have to learn how to collaborate more effectively -- to deliver better care, and better financial results. Developing capabilities to analyze data, strike partnerships, manage risk, and access new markets will be among the keys to success.

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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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Workers Are Economically Shell-Shocked

Strategy+Business

Despite the tight labor market, employees report they are willing to take increasingly smaller salaries.

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