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5 Signs Diaper Drama Is Destroying Your Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

Diaper Genies are a FABULOUS invention– for parents and nurseries. They hide the stink of a poopie diaper and exponentially increase the interval necessary to empty the trash. The stink stays conveniently wrapped tightly in plastic so no one can smell it. The stink is unavoidable and the Diaper Genie provides a welcome reprieve. But sadly, in so many companies around the world, I see a similar effect.

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The dark side of transparency

McKinsey

Executives need to get smarter about when to open up and when to withhold information so they can enjoy the benefits of organizational transparency while mitigating its unintended consequences.

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33 Ways to Great Management Consulting

SchellingPoint

Follow. ( 14 Followers ). X. Follow. E-mail : *. Follow. Unfollow. The post 33 Ways to Great Management Consulting appeared first on SchellingPoint Website.

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Getting the Leadership Basics Right

Strategy+Business

Whether they're selling concrete or chocolate, CEOs can still look to five steadfast rules.

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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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Are you nourishing your brand? Or smothering it?

Inventive Problem Solving

I married an English gardener. She's part artist, part scientist, part gentle guide and part tough taskmaster. Over the years I've progressed step by step as her assistant. After hauling bag after bag of dark, pungent mulch to the flowerbeds I eventually was taught how and when to prune and clip and weed and deadhead. I'm learning that each plant and flower requires its own particular amount of water, sunlight and space to thrive.

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Arianna Huffington on the link between leadership and well-being

McKinsey

Better sleep and less stress can improve your performance. The Thrive Global founder shares some tools that could help.

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A Better Way to Engage Your Board on Strategy

Strategy+Business

Shaping strategy should be an ongoing team effort of the CEO and directors, not just an annual exercise.

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How health apps are promising to reshape healthcare

McKinsey

Two executives from a digital diabetes-management start-up discuss the importance of a patient focus and ways innovation is shaping the industry.

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Why CFOs need a bigger role in business transformations

McKinsey

CFO involvement can lead to better outcomes for organization-wide performance improvements.

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Understanding real estate as an investment class

McKinsey

When it comes to real estate, institutional investors are changing the terms of engagement.

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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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How to build an alliance against corporate short-termism

McKinsey

Executives have more room than they realize to stand together with sophisticated investors to maintain focus on long-term value creation.

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Protecting your critical digital assets: Not all systems and data are created equal

McKinsey

Top management must lead an enterprise-wide effort to find and protect critically important data, software, and systems as part of an integrated strategy to achieve digital resilience.

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Demystifying digital marketing and sales in the chemical industry

McKinsey

Digital can give chemical companies the power to unlock more than $200 billion of new value by reducing cost to serve, improving pricing, and for fast movers, capturing growth from competitors.

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Enabling seamless lifelong learning journeys—the next frontier of digital education

McKinsey

In emerging markets, the digital transformation of education is gaining traction, and all stakeholders can benefit if they seize new opportunities for collaboration.

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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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Us versus Them: Reframing Resistance to Change

Strategy+Business

How to bridge the gap between those who champion transformation and those who challenge it.

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Why Good Employees Do Bad Things

Strategy+Business

Kellogg professor Maryam Kouchaki talks to s+b about the causes of unethical behavior in this Young Profs interview, shedding light on how scandals take hold. She also describes some of the interventions that can help people behave morally themselves and to become emboldened to speak up when they witness wrongdoing.

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Women, Play the Long Game

Strategy+Business

Why working mothers need to think like chess masters.

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U.S. Companies Reconsider Corporate Citizenship

Strategy+Business

Serious questions are being raised about the ability of people and goods to move freely across borders. What does that mean for business?

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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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A Guide to Organization Design

Strategy+Business

Ten tips to help you get your reorg right the first time. For more insight, read "10 Principles of Organization Design.

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Ralph Lauren's Short-Lived Outsider CEO

Strategy+Business

Leaders who come in with a mandate for driving change often run into obstacles.

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The Super Bowl Ad Math Doesn't Add Up

Strategy+Business

Popular commercials aired during the big game can drive up a firm's stock price, but only if the brand is relatively unknown or has a flagging reputation.

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Exploding myths about the gig economy

McKinsey

A survey of 8,000 respondents in the US, UK, Germany, Sweden, France and Spain find existing statistics severely underestimate the size of the gig economy, write Jacques Bughin and Jan Mischke in Vox EU.

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How to Set Better OKRs and Drive Results

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.

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The ascendancy of international data flows

McKinsey

Global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have raised world GDP by at least 10% in the past decade, write Jacques Bughin and Susan Lund in Vox EU.

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Doing the Super Bowl Ad Math

Strategy+Business

Popular commercials aired during the big game can drive up a firm's stock price, but only if the brand is relatively unknown or has a flagging reputation.

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The Thought Leader Interview: Bill Ruh

Strategy+Business

During the next few years, says GE Digital's leader Bill Ruh, the Industrial Internet will turn every company into a digitally empowered enterprise. Ruh sees himself as a productivity activist -- building the software and hardware platforms that will take society into a new, prosperous stage of development.