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The Power of a Road Trip

Let's Grow Leaders

What this meant was that I, and every executive above me, were expected to constantly show up in the retail stores to experience what was happening as the customers would. The store managers came up with all kinds of creative ways to add to the fun. I’ve spent many years in a “trust but verify” culture.”

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13 Barriers To Employee Engagement To Break Down

Vantage Circle

Barriers to Employee Engagement in the Retail Sector Equally, on the flip side, retail employees too struggle with enthusiasm and engagement. A survey asking 1,000 retail workers revealed that: 34% of them feel disconnected from the company. And alarmingly, 41% of retail employees look disinterested upon going to work.

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The Must-Have Skills You Need to Compete in the New Future of Work

Creativity at Work

This will have a huge impact on media, advertising, retail, finance, and healthcare [.]. The Must-Have Skills You Need to Compete in the New Future of WorkAccording to the World Economic Forum's report on the future of jobs, developments in A.I.,

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How Leaders Can Use Recognition to Build High-performing Teams

Vantage Circle

Consider the case of a customer service representative at a large retail chain. Instead of just recognizing a successful product launch, you’d also want to celebrate the team’s creative thinking or problem-solving method that led to the outcome. It evokes a sense of pleasure and satisfaction. The secret?

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The 3 Critical Characteristics of the Creative Entrepreneur

Lateral Action

In the last article we saw that the creative economy opens up a brave new world of opportunity - but a world that is also full of uncertainty and risk. Marla is the consummate creative entrepreneur. She's a bright creative thinker who follows through and gets things done. Creative entrepreneurs are not freelancers.

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What Do Your Possessions Say about Your Creative Obsessions?

Lateral Action

We have more than 500 posters that are so rare that their retail price would be in excess of $15,000," Sagan estimated. Creepy or Creative? Artist and illustrator Robert Crumb is another famous creative collector, having amassed a huge stash of 78 record albums. appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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‘Creativity would skyrocket’: How diversity could transform fashion

McKinsey

CaSandra Diggs, president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, shares her views on how the fashion industry can give diverse talent more visibility, voice, and agency.