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How Do I Get My Team to Trust Me? (Story and Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Our 8th Winning Well Principle: Trust the Trenches has so many nuances, all of which I learned the hard way. For me, it wasn’t the delegating, or asking for input, that was the hardest… it was trusting my team enough to be vulnerable. To trust them enough to admit that I’m far from perfect, and having the confidence to know that was okay.

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The next-generation operating model for the digital world

McKinsey

Companies need to increase revenues, lower costs, and delight customers. Doing that requires reinventing the operating model.

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Why Augmented Reality Will Be the Next Revolution in Retail

Strategy+Business

The Pokémon Go fad was the first legitimate case study in mass-scale augmented reality (AR). Brands, retail stores, and marketers quickly realized the opportunity inherent in the success of Pokémon Go. It doesn't require a big leap of faith to imagine people chasing expiring deals and coupons, trading and buying goods in the virtual world with virtual currencies, watching digital billboards, and interacting with brands.

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Career Success A to Z: M is for Mindset

Eat Your Career

This article is part of a series. Learn more about it and access links to other articles in the series here. It’s no secret that how you think impacts your reality. Whether or not you believe in the over-hyped concept of the Law of Attraction, there’s no denying this simple truth: Your mindset plays an enormous role in how you show up in the workplace.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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Selecting Advanced Management Consultants over Traditional

SchellingPoint

Follow. ( 0 Followers ). X. Follow. E-mail : *. Follow. Unfollow. The post Selecting Advanced Management Consultants over Traditional appeared first on SchellingPoint Website.

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Reinventing construction through a productivity revolution

McKinsey

To transform the sector, action is needed in seven areas or through broader adoption of mass-production approaches.

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Using blockchain to improve data management in the public sector

McKinsey

It’s not just for financial institutions; government agencies can use this digital ledger technology to protect trusted records and simplify interactions with citizens.

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Measuring the state of US states

McKinsey

New research compares economic and social conditions in US states—and highlights opportunities for government leaders to help make improvements.

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Agility in US national security

McKinsey

Even the world’s largest bureaucracy can learn to dance. This excerpt from a new book published by Aspen Strategy Group suggests how.

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The (ongoing) trouble with travel distribution: Customer experience

McKinsey

The industry’s rapid evolution continues unabated. To profit through this turbulence, leaders must focus on what really matters—the customer.

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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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KPN dials up a new digital strategy

McKinsey

The leader of digital IT at the Netherlands-based telecommunications company explains how KPN reintegrated previously outsourced expertise and shifted to agile ways of working.

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From one well to thousands: The innovation multiplier in unconventionals

McKinsey

Steve Schlotterbeck, CEO of EQT Corporation, comments on the opportunities and challenges of leading one of the largest producers in the world-class Marcellus Shale region.

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How semiconductor companies can win in China’s new product-development landscape

McKinsey

Product-design centers in China want to become stronger engines of global innovation. What does this mean for semiconductor suppliers?

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Should Robots Pay Their Fair Share?

Strategy+Business

If machines and software are going to take over the jobs of humans, we may need them to fund our society.

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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 Business of Tetris

Strategy+Business

Journalist Dan Ackerman untangles the complicated history of one of the world's most popular video games.

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Innovation is not enough

McKinsey

Techno-optimists ignore the importance of economy-wide effects on productivity, writes Dani Rodrik in Innovation & Technology.

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Connecting talent with opportunity in the digital age

McKinsey

Online talent platforms are increasingly connecting people to the right work opportunities. By 2025 they could add $2.7 trillion to global GDP, and begin to ameliorate many of the persistent problems in the world’s labor markets, write James Manyika, Susan Lund, Kelsey Robinson, John Valentino, and Richard Dobbs in a report issued by McKinsey Global Institute.

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Putting profits in perspective

McKinsey

High corporate profits can result in market concentration, indicating decreased competition in various sectors. However, it would be incorrect to conclude that weakening competition is driving these economic trends. There are several swiftly changing sectoral dynamics involved, write James Manyika and Laura Tyson in Project Syndicate.

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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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Country appendix connecting talent with opportunity in the digital age

McKinsey

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A disconnected Middle East

McKinsey

Our new report, Global Flows in a Digital Age: How Trade, Finance, People, and Data Connect the World Economy, features an index of "connectedness" that measures cross-border flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data and communications. In addition to allowing country-by-country comparisons, it includes regional rankings. The MENA average ranks 47th in the world, making it the second-worst-performing region; only Sub-Saharan Africa is less connected, write James Manyika and Susan Lund

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