Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 12, 2016
The second half of December is a great time for recognition, celebration, white elephant gifts and other fun. Yes, yes, please do all that, but don’t stop there. The best holiday gift you can give your team is to “own the ugly.” To help your team have the tough conversations they’re longing to have. To stare squarely in the face of what’s not working and clear the decks for a remarkable 2017.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Research shows that hurtful workplace behavior can depress performance, increase employee turnover, and even mar customer relationships.
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Penelope Trunk
DECEMBER 12, 2016
I am writing this on my new dining room table, in my new apartment in Swarthmore, PA. We live above Dunkin’ Donuts, and I told this kids absolutely no buying a donut ever. But I bought a few coffees there as a goodwill gesture for using their Internet which thank goodness filters up to our apartment. The kids think it’s totally incompetent that we’ve been here four days and still do not have our own Internet connection.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 14, 2016
The number of women presiding over large companies still lags far behind men, yet the firms they lead tend to be more risk averse and more profitable over the long term.
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Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about preparing for 2017. 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 goal setting. Please submit your very best links to your goal setting posts. The question for the month is: “What your best practice for helping teams set meaningful goals?
McKinsey
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Analytics plays an increasingly important role in B2B sales—and high-performing sales organizations take it to a new level to differentiate themselves from the also-rans.
Professional Development Brief brings together the best content for development professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 13, 2016
Four types of triggers - each with its own form of awareness -- can set you on the road to coherence. They are confidence ("We can do that!"), aspiration ("We have a dream,"), apprehension ("We're going to be in trouble"), and outright panic ("We're already in trouble"). Which will be the spur to your company's change?
McKinsey
DECEMBER 13, 2016
Corporate America’s gender-diversity programs are falling short. Companies need to think differently to ignite change.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 16, 2016
The Finnish giant has exited mobile phones and doubled down on its networking business. Chairman Risto Siilasmaa explains why—and how.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 16, 2016
The full power of advanced analytics requires not only acquiring new technology and analytics solutions, but also helping people improve their expertise and adopt new ways of working.
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
McKinsey
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Here’s how consumer-goods manufacturers can master complexity—and even turn it to their advantage.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 12, 2016
The new administration can make a fresh start.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 16, 2016
Getting agile right reduces time to market, increases customer satisfaction, and delivers many efficiency improvements. Yet too many companies still get it wrong. This collection brings together some of our recent insights on how companies in all industries can successfully implement an agile approach.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 12, 2016
To boost a hotel's bottom line, ask the bellhop.
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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.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 11, 2016
Dispersed teams trust more and function better when exposed to their colleagues' non-verbal cues, best communicated in-person.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 13, 2016
Having a clear sense of who you are will help you grow coherently, and outpace the competition. For further insights, read "Creating a Strategy That Works.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Interviews with dozens of women who have risen to the C-suite illuminate triumphs, travails, and important lessons.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 12, 2016
Announced refining capacity additions remain high relative to recent history, but will be lower than previously forecast. Conversion investments continue to exceed distillation and will increase complexity in the refining industry with potential opportunities for refiners, traders, suppliers, shippers, and the EPC industry.
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.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 16, 2016
Digital technologies, starting with mobile phones, can rapidly fix problems encountered when savings are stored outside the financial system and foster faster, more inclusive growth, write Laura Tyson and Susan Lund in Project Syndicate.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 15, 2016
With policy gridlock suddenly expected to ease in Washington, investor sentiment is shifting sharply.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 15, 2016
This issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, explores how executives can ensure they’re putting their data to good use, the future of China’s business environment, the art of transforming organizations, and why leadership requires reason and emotion.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 16, 2016
For all the hype, most industries have still not come close to realizing the full potential of data and analytics, write Nicolaus Henke, Jacques Bughin, and Michael Chui in Harvard Business Review.
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McKinsey
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Many oil and gas companies are currently spending more than they earn, anticipating higher oil prices. If prices do not continue to recover, 2017 could be a year of reckoning in the industry.
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