Sat.Feb 11, 2017 - Fri.Feb 17, 2017

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Give Pointers on Creating Connection

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about creating connection. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival follows up on this month’s with a theme all about team time. The question for the month is: What practical tips do you have for working well with a team and building a sense of teamwork?

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From disrupted to disruptor: Reinventing your business by transforming the core

McKinsey

Companies must be open to radical reinvention to find new, significant, and sustainable sources of revenue.

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A Guide to Strategy through Execution

Strategy+Business

How to get the strategists and implementers in your company to work together effectively. For more insight, read "10 Principles of Strategy through Execution.

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Career Success A to Z: K is for Karma

Eat Your Career

This article is part of a series. Learn more about it and access links to other articles in the series here. This week’s topic is a little out there, but stick with me. Once again, my thoughts on this topic are fully summed up in my book, The Proactive Professional. So below, I provide a short excerpt: Building Career Karma. I strongly believe in the concept of karma , the Buddhist belief that your actions in this life will come back to you in the next.

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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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Show Me the Love: Recognition that Makes a Difference (with video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Yesterday a high-potential, high-performing VP called: Karin, the thing is, I know I’ve been accomplishing a lot. And I shouldn’t need this. But, I just wish one of the big guys would just say “thank you.” HR and my peers have told me “Oh, if you haven’t heard anything, you can be sure you’re doing just fine. if you’re screwing up, that will be perfectly clear.

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How technology is reshaping supply and demand for natural resources

McKinsey

The ways we consume energy and produce commodities are changing. This transformation could benefit the global economy, but resource producers will have to adapt to stay competitive.

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Grit is overrated; the hardest worker never wins

Penelope Trunk

The people with the most grit are really poor or really neglected and they overcome those circumstances. But why aspire to that? We glorify it like life is one big Horatio Alger story. Working smart is the opposite of grit. We also glorify the idea of persisting through hardship. There’s the Seth Godin book of grit that everyone loves: It’s The Dip.

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Closing the skills gap: Creating workforce-development programs that work for everyone

McKinsey

The ‘‘skills gap’’ in the United States is serious. Here is how to do better.

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A future for mobile operators: The keys to successful reinvention

McKinsey

By transforming their networks and operations with the newest technologies, mobile operators could double their cash-flow conversion within five years.

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Improving the customer experience to achieve government-agency goals

McKinsey

The benefits of a customer-centric strategy aren’t limited to private-sector businesses. Government agencies at every level can gain by putting the needs and wants of citizens first.

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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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Adopting an ecosystem view of business technology

McKinsey

To fully benefit from new business technology, CIOs need to adapt their traditional IT functions to the opportunities and challenges of emerging technology “ecosystems.” Here’s how it’s done.

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Between ROIC and a hard place: The puzzle of airline economics

McKinsey

At a recent symposium of the International Air Transport Association, McKinsey’s Alex Dichter delved into airlines’ tangled finances.

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Optimizing back-end semiconductor manufacturing through Industry 4.0

McKinsey

Can Industry 4.0 tools help back-end semiconductor factories capture elusive gains in productivity, throughput, and quality?

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Partnering with China’s retailers: A guide for consumer-goods companies

McKinsey

Companies must tailor their key-account-management model and capabilities to the Chinese context.

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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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How CFOs can use war gaming to support strategic decisions

McKinsey

CFOs are often natural leaders of this strategic planning tool.

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Pioneering a customer-experience mind-set for Federal Student Aid programs

McKinsey

Brenda Wensil discusses how to build momentum for a customer-centric approach.

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Discover technology’s impact on natural resources

McKinsey

This interactive graphic explores how recent trends could affect supply and demand for resources.

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How Strategy Talk Creates Value

Strategy+Business

Investors appreciate hearing about a new CEO's strategic vision, and they respond by bidding up the stock price.

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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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Megadeals in Consumer Packaged Goods

Strategy+Business

Including Reynolds-Lorillard (US$25 billion), Kraft-H.J. Heinz ($46 billion), and SABMiller-Anheuser-Busch InBev ($101 billion), deals in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are getting bigger and bigger. This dramatic rise in deal value is rapidly reshaping the CPG landscape. In response to sluggish organic growth and activist investor pressure to enhance value, many of the biggest companies in the sector are scrambling to find ways of optimizing portfolios and cutting costs.

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You May Be Part of a Global Supply Chain

Strategy+Business

All sorts of U.S. industries, including education and car manufacturing, sell their products and services to international customers.

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Why Healthcare Companies Need to Focus on Enterprise Resilience

Strategy+Business

Pursuing effective growth strategies will help firms navigate the uncertainty in the U.S. market.

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s+b Trend Watch: Female Board Members on the Rise

Strategy+Business

Women are gaining more seats in corporate boardrooms, which may have ripple effects. A recent study by PwC found that female directors place more value than me on racial and cultural diversity.

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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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Spectra Energy: ‘We go where the lights are’

McKinsey

President and CEO Greg Ebel on how Spectra Energy became one of the most successful pipeline companies in North America and the future of the industry.

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Consolidation in Consumer Packaged Goods

Strategy+Business

Including Reynolds-Lorillard (US$25 billion), Kraft-H.J. Heinz ($46 billion), and SABMiller-Anheuser-Busch InBev ($101 billion), deals in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are getting bigger and bigger. This dramatic rise in deal value is rapidly reshaping the CPG landscape. In response to sluggish organic growth and activist investor pressure to enhance value, many of the biggest companies in the sector are scrambling to find ways of optimizing portfolios and cutting costs.

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Talk Might Be Cheap, but Strategy Talk Creates Value

Strategy+Business

Investors appreciate hearing about a new CEO's strategic vision, and they respond by bidding up the stock price.

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If past worrying was unnecessary then future worrying is too

Penelope Trunk

ComPsych is this place that puts out research about how employees feel, and it turns out that feelings are generational. At least at work. Which is what ComPsych specializes in. The biggest problem Gen Y has is depression. The biggest problem Gen X has is relationships. The biggest problem Baby Boomers have is death. This is surprising to me because I have read for so long that the biggest workplace problem Gen X has is that Baby Boomers aren’t dying.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

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!