Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2019

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about inspiring creativity and innovation on your team. We’ve expanded the Frontline Festival to include other formats such as podcasts and artwork and are always looking for […]. The post Inspiring Creativity and Innovation on Your Team: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Creativity 477

Career Advancement

MARCH 18, 2019

“On great teams—the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions—team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn’t serving the team.”. ~Patrick Lencioni~. Sofia was floored when during a team meeting, her coworker stood up to present a project they’d been working on together.

Electronics 189

Electronics Brainstorming IT Strategy 189

On The Job

MARCH 18, 2019

With a low unemployment rate, some employers are pulling out all the stops when it comes to recruiting workers, such as offering perks and higher salaries. But sometimes the hiring manager goes a bit further -- and doesn't present a realistic picture of what you'll really be doing if you take the job. So, on the first day when you show up and expect to begin working on exciting projects, you're told that those projects are sort of on hold.

Company Culture 120

Company Culture Recruitment Management Management 120

McKinsey

MARCH 21, 2019

Household batteries could contribute to making the grid more cost effective, reliable, resilient, and safe—if retail battery providers, utilities, and regulators can resolve delicate commercial, operational, and policy issues.

Retail 111

Retail Utilities 111

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Professional development

Penelope Trunk

MARCH 21, 2019

Parental Advisory: Earning all the money and taking care of the kids by yourself at the same time is hell. And only crazy people do it. Really. Less than 1% of white college-educated women raise kids alone. That statistic makes sense to me. Because 2% of white college-educated women get divorced. All these statistics come from the Bureau of Labor. Most of the women in this demographic get remarried.

Education 99

Education Solution Management Management 99

On The Job

MARCH 20, 2019

In the Great Recession many years ago, employers were ridiculous with the job qualifications they requested -- a master's degree to be a receptionist or NASA astronaut experience to drive a bakery truck. That was when jobs were in short supply. Now, those tables have turned and employers are lowering their requirements. You won your elementary school's spelling bee?

Problem Solving 25

Problem Solving Company Culture Management Management 25

McKinsey

MARCH 19, 2019

New automation techniques can provide the first step toward continuous, tech-enabled redesign of critical operations—forming an intuitive ops-to-tech cycle in which tech improves ops, and vice versa.

Performance 108

Performance 108

McKinsey

MARCH 16, 2019

A retailer can now use geospatial analytics to understand the interactions between its online and offline channels. With these insights, it can create a higher-performing retail network.

Retail 103

Retail Networking Performance IT 103

McKinsey

MARCH 21, 2019

Companies in developing economies are becoming battle hardened as they vie for growth and plug into advanced technologies. Wealth is piling up in areas of economic vitality.

Development 97

Development Finance Strategy 97

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Education

McKinsey

MARCH 20, 2019

Leading firms are applying advanced analytics across the full asset-management value chain—with real-world results.

Management 107

Management Management 107

McKinsey

MARCH 16, 2019

The New York Times foreign affairs columnist shares what the environment can teach us about thriving in an age of disruption in a conversation with James Manyika.

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McKinsey

MARCH 21, 2019

China looks set to remain the fastest-growing major chemical market, but important changes are under way. To succeed in this next stage of development, players will need to embrace a new set of strategies.

Strategy 84

Strategy Development 84

McKinsey

MARCH 16, 2019

As customers and banks shift to digital technologies, bancassurers need to rethink their distribution model.

Banking 103

Banking 103

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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Solution

McKinsey

MARCH 21, 2019

Modest growth forecasts, shifting consumer tastes, and increased competition will force executives to seek new opportunities.

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McKinsey

MARCH 16, 2019

One-word answers are not enough in today’s complex world, when people have differing priorities as citizens, consumers, and workers.

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McKinsey

MARCH 19, 2019

Rethinking how we travel through our cities and towns means tracking the emissions we create as we do. The good news is that traveling may soon get cleaner.

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McKinsey

MARCH 16, 2019

From flat, to fast, to deep, technology is advancing in stages and changing our world. The New York Times columnist forecasts what’s next in conversation with James Manyika.

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Career

McKinsey

MARCH 16, 2019

James Manyika and the New York Times foreign affairs columnist discuss what it will take to restore high-wage jobs in the face of technological disruption.

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IT 72

McKinsey

MARCH 16, 2019

The New York Times foreign affairs columnist tells James Manyika why he thinks the environment, globalization, and technology are transforming our world.

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McKinsey

MARCH 16, 2019

Transformations must truly change the trajectory of the organization to thrive over the long run. Here are four essential steps to ensuring lasting change.

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Vantage Circle

MARCH 20, 2019

With the dawn of technology, communication has evolved along with it. And communication has always been the basis of connectivity, be at work or at home. With communication, you can convey the message that you want through verbal or non-verbal communication. Emails, text messages have become an integral part of communication and has played a very major role in an organization, be it a large scale company or a small scale.

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Communication Construction Business Storytelling Management 55

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

McKinsey

MARCH 19, 2019

Shiny new initiatives can distract you from paying attention to other valuable but mundane projects and investments.

Finance 69

Finance Strategy 69

McKinsey

MARCH 19, 2019

For medtech companies, divestitures can create value. But several elements are necessary to make separations successful.

Medical 68

Medical Pharmaceutical 68

McKinsey

MARCH 16, 2019

Ron Kuerbitz, Chief Executive Officer, agilon health, shares his perspective on consolidation of the sector, the role of technology, and what he’s most excited about for the future. He spoke with Neha Patel, Partner, McKinsey & Company in December 2018.

Healthcare 53

Healthcare 53

McKinsey

MARCH 16, 2019

There’s reason to be hopeful about our future. The New York Times columnist explains why in a conversation with James Manyika.

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Speaker: Francoise Tourniaire - Founder of FT Works, Omid Razavi - Chief Advocacy Officer at SupportLogic, and Gregory Walker - Senior Product Manager at SupportLogic

The 'great resignation' and the 'great talent reshuffle' have impacted contact center and customer support staff as much, if not more than, any other part of the workforce. Couple that with a potentially volatile economy and it's clear that organizations must invest in innovative approaches if they want employees who are engaged and informed enough to significantly improve the customer experience and eliminate the high costs associated with agent attrition.

Construction