Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 19, 2016
We’d both been looking forward to it–our first Thanksgiving together. We’d each been the primary holiday cooks in our previous marriage, which can feel lonely and overwhelming at times. But not this year. Now we had each other. We’d planned the perfect menu the week before while eating sushi over candlelight. We’d had fun shopping.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 22, 2016
In the face of political transitions and concerns over trade, executives expect improvements at home and a stable global economy—with some regional divergences.
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Penelope Trunk
DECEMBER 22, 2016
I am cooking but it’s in a slow cooker. I’m resisting my rental apartment oven because I have a $12,000 oven at the farm that no one is using, and maybe that wouldn’t be so frustrating to me if I didn’t also have $35,000 piano at the farm that no one is using. I can tell I’m throwing all caution to the wind because writing other blog posts I told myself to not tell you how much I paid for the piano but really, that’ll be nothing compared to what I end up payi
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 20, 2016
A series of honest conversations with yourself, delving deeper than the annual list of dos and don'ts, can spark lasting and meaningful change.
Advertiser: Paycor
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.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 22, 2016
To me the most remarkable part of Christmas is how everything goes from ridiculously busy to a full-on stop. The Winning Well workshops, the keynotes, the 2017 planning, the filming, the travelling (well not that), the rehearsals, the concerts, the shopping, the cooking, the visits, and then the pause. When I walk into a candle lit church, all the chaos seems to melt away.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 19, 2016
Providing an omnichannel customer experience requires companies to become more flexible and responsive.
Professional Development Brief brings together the best content for development professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Your strategic planning process and annual off-sites may be holding your directors back.
crowdspring
DECEMBER 22, 2016
It's been a great year for bold book covers. Here are some of our favs.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Organizational choices made during a time of resource scarcity need reexamination when the cycle turns.
Eat Your Career
DECEMBER 22, 2016
“I am always grateful for what I have, even as I strive to achieve more.” . To learn more about affirmations and how to leverage them for career success, check out this article. The post Positive Career Affirmation #3 appeared first on Eat Your Career.
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
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 18, 2016
Every senior executive fears getting a message from a shareholder activist, but increasingly, activists are intent on overhauling the operations of the company in ways that boost its long-term value.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
In India’s high-growth, fast-changing retail clothing market, we see significant new growth opportunities for foreign and domestic players.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 20, 2016
Many semiconductor companies struggle when attempting to transition from hardware to software. How can they improve the process?
McKinsey
DECEMBER 20, 2016
Instead of “insourcing” or “reshoring,” a revamped approach to outsourcing can improve customer experience, explains Vodafone Spain’s Carmen López-Suevos Hernández in an interview.
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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.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
A McKinsey survey reveals how—and how much—customer analytics can improve profits and growth.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 20, 2016
In her new book, Earning It, veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Joanne Lublin chronicles the travails and triumphs of women who have risen to the highest positions in corporate America.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Fanatical attention to customer needs and smart tech investments underpin e-commerce excellence and customer loyalty.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Will Forrest and Kara Sprague, McKinsey partners, spoke recently at the Cloud Connect conference about the need for companies to focus on technology investments that innovate business models, not improve IT productivity.
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.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 19, 2016
The growing array of immersive entertainment experiences carries unforeseen implications for content owners and creators.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 18, 2016
What really happens to human systems--machines, processes, and businesses--when smart machines enter the picture?
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
The goldmine of data available today represents a turning point for marketing and sales leaders.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
B2B organizations must focus on the people and moments that matter so that marketing spend turns into real sales.
Advertiser: Paycor
Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Consumer demand for things that make people feel better and healthier is already a very big deal—and it is about to get much bigger. Here is how to succeed in this burgeoning market.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
The internet has upended how consumers engage with brands. For marketers, the old way of doing business is unsustainable.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Direct sales of cosmetics are thriving in the world's most beauty-conscious country. Here's what you need to know.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Real luxury lifestyle must be rooted in authenticity. If luxury brands stray too far from their roots, they will be reduced to little more than faded labels. Here is how companies can infuse their luxury brands with a sense of lifestyle—and substance, too.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Over the next 10 years, consumer spending in emerging markets is expected to grow three times faster than in developed nations, reaching a total of $6 trillion by 2020. Consumer-goods companies must understand and address these changing patterns—by both geography and category. This report suggests how.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Just because you have a loyalty program doesn’t mean it's generating value.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Profit warnings not only hurt a company's domestic rivals, but also international competitors, and can cause industry-wide investor skittishness.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Five trends will characterize German consumer behavior in the coming years. Here is how to use this knowledge to find a competitive edge.
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On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Retail Worker Safety Act (S. 8358B/A. 8947C) into law, requiring retail employers in New York to adopt workplace violence prevention policies and implement training programs by March 2025. This webinar will provide a detailed overview of the Act’s requirements, including developing and providing a retail workplace violence prevention policy/plan and delivering annual interactive training to employees.
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