Sat.Jan 21, 2017 - Fri.Jan 27, 2017

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A Fresh, Fast, and Fun Way to Focus Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like most managers, you’re neck deep in performance agreements, stretch goals, and the dance between managing your boss’s expectations and warning your team not to sandbag. How you spend January can make the difference between a breakthrough and mediocre 2017. Too many managers take the goals handed to them, wring their hands for a day or so, and then pull the team together to figure out how the heck they’re going to accomplish all THAT and still “Do their

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Overcome speaker anxiety to become a fearless and engaging speaker

Career Advancement

Guest Post by Deborah Shames. I confess. To this day, I experience anxiety before delivering a keynote or leading my business group. I have trouble quieting my mind and sleeping the night before. I imagine everything that could go wrong, and question whether I’ve prepared enough. This may not sound like a surprising admission, since 74 percent of the US population surveyed in 2013 shares a fear of public speaking.

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Discussions on digital: How strategy is evolving—and staying the same—in the hypergrowth digital age

McKinsey

Strategy is evolving in unexpected ways, as Silicon Valley thought leaders discuss in McKinsey’s latest Discussions on Digital podcast.

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What's Your Digital ROI?

Strategy+Business

Companies need a clear and complete view of how their digital transformations are progressing.

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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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5 Tips to Make Collaborative Problem Solving Work for Your Team

Wrike

For project managers, the art of problem solving lies in getting people together who all have their own areas of expertise and then finding the most effective and efficient way to move forward. This can be a complicated, painstaking process, and it’s often easy to lose sight of the big picture along the way. Still, by taking on collaborative problem solving with clear goals, leaders are more likely to discover smart, creative solutions to help the team progress in its mission.

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Career Success A to Z: I Is For Initiative

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, I want to talk about one of my favorite topics: Initiative. This is a critical part of being proactive—another topic I’m passionate about. In fact, my book, The Proactive Professional , discusses the importance of taking initiative in-depth, and it also addresses how to do it appropriately in the workplace.

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Microsoft Starts Up

Strategy+Business

The asymmetry between large companies and startups, in terms of power, structure, and decision-making speed, means that it's not as easy as it may seem to forge mutually beneficial connections and nurture them over time. A 10-year study of Microsoft's partnership initiatives reveals valuable insights for multinationals competing to build their own innovation ecosystems.

IT 60
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Overwhelming OTT: Telcos’ growth strategy in a digital world

McKinsey

Incumbents are now asking if digital is a threat to or an opportunity for their business model. Beyond operational efficiency, they will need to focus on excellence in execution.

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Staying ahead on cyber security

McKinsey

Is your company an easy target for hackers? Even those making progress must keep moving to protect their digital assets.

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Leading a corporate transformation

McKinsey

Lessons from an executive who has done so three times in the past dozen years.

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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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Who should pay for support functions?

McKinsey

Traditional allocation of support-function costs isn’t working well, executives say. They need a better way to foster value-conscious decisions without creating too much complexity.

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Realizing the potential of CRISPR

McKinsey

Three healthcare executives share industry perspectives on the future of genome editing.

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Nonfinancial risk today: Getting risk and the business aligned

McKinsey

Both must be deeply involved to avoid costly errors.

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The growth opportunity for private health-insurance companies

McKinsey

The global market for private health insurance is being disrupted—but also growing rapidly. Understanding the forces at work can help payors capture the opportunity.

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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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Seizing India’s capital-goods opportunity

McKinsey

India’s domestic capital-goods sector is under-developed, weighed down by low investment in technology and talent. That may be changing.

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Why the Right Mix of Products, Customers, and Markets Is an Overlooked Profits Lever

Strategy+Business

In this economic climate, executives are finding that the growth levers that have traditionally served them well -- boosting volume, pushing up prices, cutting costs, and investing in growth opportunities -- have grown less effective. One overlooked growth lever, however, offers a path toward sustainable, profitable growth: Improving the mix of the products and services a company sells, the customers to whom it sells them, and the geographic markets in which it operates.

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Executives of an Uncertain Age

Strategy+Business

Why we should stop being surprised that events surprise us.

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Personalizing at scale

McKinsey

For the first time, marketers have the tools to deliver personalized marketing to millions of customers. Here’s how you can put them to work.

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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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Quantifying Entertainment

Strategy+Business

How the science of big data analytics can contribute to the art of producing movie and TV content.

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Sorting through Corporate Protest Tactics

Strategy+Business

Activist groups' ideological stance, as well as a company's own characteristics, shape the types of strategies used to effect change.

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Peter Diamandis's Excellent Adventure

Strategy+Business

In his new book, journalist Julian Guthrie tells the story of Peter Diamandis and of SpaceShipOne -- the privately developed, piloted craft that won the US$10 million AnsariX Prize in 2004.

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The EU data-protection regulation—compliance burden or foundation for digitization?

McKinsey

Enhanced data protection creates a challenge, but it also offers a catalyst for digitization.

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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.