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6 Ways To Transform a Divisive Culture into a Winning Well Culture: (Chery Gegelman)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection. I really got to know Chery on our collaboration around the Energized Leadership book project. I admired her commitment and energy that led her to meet with us at 4 am to align with our time zone. She’s an adventurer with a kind and generous spirit. We truly enjoyed her amazing review of the story behind the story of Winning Well. .

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What’s new with the Internet of Things?

McKinsey

Adoption of the Internet of Things is proceeding more slowly than expected, but semiconductor companies can help accelerate growth through new technologies and business models.

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Get outside input to identify your patterns

Penelope Trunk

The only way I can write this is to tell myself I won’t publish it. I don’t even know how to write it. I know it’s convoluted because the only person who could understand it on the first try is the criminal lawyer. When I moved to Pennsylvania with the kids last November the Farmer gave me a bill for $35K. I told him, “Fine.

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A Strategist's Guide to Artificial Intelligence

Strategy+Business

Artificial intelligence is creating new approaches to business models, operations, and the deployment of people that look likely to fundamentally affect a wide range of sectors. After all, if AI can transform an earthbound industry like agriculture through better understanding of soil and climate factors, what can't it touch? And how long will it be before your company is affected?

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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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How to Be the Best Leader You Can Be (May Busch)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection Reflection. May comes to us from London. We first got to know May when she invited us to share our Winning Well message in her Career Mastery Challenge. We’ve enjoyed getting to know her and the important work she is doing in the world. These days, being a leader is about your behavior, not your title. So, every day you and I have a golden opportunity to be the leader we want to be – that best version of ourselves.

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Digitizing customer journeys and processes: Stories from the front lines

McKinsey

These company examples highlight what some leaders are doing to build new customer experiences.

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Is Your Company's Diversity Training Making You More Biased?

Strategy+Business

Corporate inclusion programs often trigger an "us versus them" mind-set. But establishing shared goals can help get teams on track.

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Connection: We Feel Good When We Feel Connected (Shelley Row)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection. Shelley and I got to know one another through our Mastermind group at the National Speakers Association. I admire her strategic mind and warm heart along with her amazing resiliency and poise through the most challenging circumstances. Feeling Good By Staying Connected. Is there someone you work with who could use a little motivation?

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Making sense of Internet of Things platforms

McKinsey

The IoT platform space is important, but crowded and confusing. How do you go about finding one that is right for your business?

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The Importance of Relationship-Building in Today’s Leadership (Tanveer Naseer)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection. We’ve gotten to know Tanveer through his fantastic leadership writing and thought leadership over the years. He’s been a regular contributor to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival the last few years and a kindred spirit on blending the bottom line with the human spirit. Relationships For Complex Times.

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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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The Danger of Over-Confidence (Jeremy Kingsley)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection. Jeremy is one of those kindred spirits who just picks up the phone every now and then and says, “How’s it going? and How can I help?” He’s a great role model of confident humility and understands that the real competition is mediocrity–the more we help one another’s businesses to grow, the more collective impact we can have in the world.

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The six types of successful acquisitions

McKinsey

Companies advance myriad strategies for creating value with acquisitions—but only a handful are likely to do so.

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A case study in combating bias

McKinsey

Following several disappointing investments, the German electric utility RWE overhauled its decision-making processes. Learn how from the CFO who spearheaded the effort.

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Improving public safety through customer experience at the National Weather Service

McKinsey

Laura Furgione, the NWS’s former deputy director, discusses where the customer fits in with the agency’s mission of protecting lives and property.

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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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Building a long-term customer-experience vision at the Social Security Administration

McKinsey

Carolyn Colvin, the Social Security Administration’s former acting commissioner, discusses the critical elements in incorporating customer-centric thinking in a high-level strategy.

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A roadmap for a digital transformation

McKinsey

No insurance company has yet completed a digital transformation—one that fully harnesses the power of digital technology to rethink every aspect of the organization. But a number of carriers are making remarkable progress, indicating the direction others should take.

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Insurtech—the threat that inspires

McKinsey

Incumbents need to keep their eyes out for new entrants that use technology to create a strategic advantage. The size of their share in the next generation of the insurance industry is at stake.

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Winning in Nigeria: Pharma’s next frontier

McKinsey

Amid the country’s downturn, should companies still be looking here for growth? Yes—and we can learn five lessons from players getting it right today.

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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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Globalization’s ongoing challenge

McKinsey

Are politics and aid—in lieu of free trade—to blame for the issues facing globalization today?

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A strategy for a digital age

McKinsey

Few insurers have defined a comprehensive digital strategy fit to withstand attackers at the gate. The starting point is to understand the sources of disruption.

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The promise of blockchain

McKinsey

Blockchain has huge potential to enhance insurers’ business model, but is also being used by digital start-ups to attack it. Hence the imperative for incumbents to start exploring this nascent technology.

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Ditch These Myths about Women in the Workplace -- or Miss Out on Talent

Strategy+Business

Women coming back after a break can be an enthusiastic, driven addition to your team. Don't let stereotypes blind you to the opportunity.

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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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The advance of analytics

McKinsey

Harnessing the potential of burgeoning data and computer power to add value must become ingrained in insurers’ every activity.

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Ports and shipping: The need for solutions that cross lines

McKinsey

Despite—or because of—low rates, service is bad and shippers are angry. The port-and-shipping sector must and can improve, not only for shippers, but also for the lines and ports themselves.

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Capturing value from the core

McKinsey

Insurers’ existing customers, brands, data, and technical skills are valuable business assets if they can be catapulted into the digital age.

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Harnessing the potential of data in insurance

McKinsey

Insurers collect a wealth of data, but few have found a way to monetize this asset. New “data as a business” models point the way forward.

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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!

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Why Robots Need Adult Supervision

Strategy+Business

Facebook is hiring legions of people to monitor content, proving once again that, at least in the near future, computers need a human touch.

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How to Make Entertainment and Media Businesses "Fan"-tastic

Strategy+Business

Entertainment and media (E&M) offerings today simply cannot thrive without the economic, social, and emotional power of their fans. Premium content is expensive, and getting more so. Distribution is a brutal battle for shelf space. The steady march of digital technology has ushered in a direct-to-consumer environment. There is simply too much competition for users to allow E&M businesses to survive on experiences that disproportionately cater to casual "eyeballs" or infrequent users.

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Strategy Talk: Should We Split Our Stock to Boost Returns?

Strategy+Business

Financial engineering won't fix a stagnant valuation.

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Emerging markets encouraged to defend globalization

McKinsey

While many of the world’s major economies are today turning inward, the future of globalization depends on whether emerging markets, like China, can lead it onto a more inclusive path, writes Jonathan Woetzel in China Daily.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act

Speaker: Speakers:

On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Retail Worker Safety Act (S. 8358B/A. 8947C) into law, requiring retail employers in New York to adopt workplace violence prevention policies and implement training programs by March 2025. This webinar will provide a detailed overview of the Act’s requirements, including developing and providing a retail workplace violence prevention policy/plan and delivering annual interactive training to employees.