Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2017

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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Career Advancement

JANUARY 23, 2017

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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On The Job

JANUARY 25, 2017

When you buy your popcorn at the movies, you probably don’t have more than a fleeting thought about the concession clerk, which is why such a relationship is referred to as transactional. You hand over the cash, and the clerk hands over the popcorn. It’s a transaction, and you don’t have any real investment in that relationship. But at work, you probably chit-chat with colleagues before beginning a work-related discussion.

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McKinsey

JANUARY 27, 2017

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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HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ - transforming video engagement with two-way interactivity. With Qvio viewers can ask questions and get instant answers from the content owner's Author-Controlled AI™️.

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Wrike

JANUARY 25, 2017

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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On The Job

JANUARY 23, 2017

When managers get really, really fed up with a team member, they often a) explode at them in a crazy, bug-eyed, spit-spewing way or b) walk away and hide in their offices, wearing camouflage clothing and trying to blend in with a ficus. Neither strategy works. Screaming at someone makes you look like a lunatic and everyone starts dusting off their resumes because no one wants to work for a lunatic.

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McKinsey

JANUARY 27, 2017

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

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 25, 2017

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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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

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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Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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McKinsey

JANUARY 23, 2017

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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McKinsey

JANUARY 24, 2017

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

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McKinsey

JANUARY 26, 2017

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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McKinsey

JANUARY 27, 2017

Financial services, food retailing, and pharma are reinventing themselves in different ways.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

Solution

McKinsey

JANUARY 23, 2017

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

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McKinsey

JANUARY 24, 2017

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

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McKinsey

JANUARY 25, 2017

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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Development 68

McKinsey

JANUARY 24, 2017

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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At eWOW, we are all about holistic growth – personal and professional. Growth that goes beyond a job title and paycheck. This year, eWOW 2023 virtual summit focuses on owning your growth – an action plan that will help you chart your path to success that is unique to you.

Career

McKinsey

JANUARY 25, 2017

Both must be deeply involved to avoid costly errors.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

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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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 22, 2017

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

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 25, 2017

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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Speaker: Jennifer Brick, Career Strategist and Author

Your employees have checked out. The last few years have been a wild ride, with countless changes to how we work and our workplace cultures, like the sudden shift to remote work, the return to office, and trends like quiet quitting. With productivity, profitability, and your employer brand on the line, leadership is turning to HR to engage employees and recreate your culture in different working models.

Certification

Strategy+Business

JANUARY 25, 2017

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

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Entertainment 56

McKinsey

JANUARY 23, 2017

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

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IT 50

Strategy+Business

JANUARY 25, 2017

Why we should stop being surprised that events surprise us.

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