Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 11, 2017

You’ve been working long hours, fighting the political and logistical battles to do what’s right for the business– and just as you think everything’s on track, the landscape changes… a merger, a reorganization, reduced funding… and you feel like you’re starting all over again. Most of the time when people come to me feeling burned out and exhausted–or even feel like they’re “losing their soul” it’s not that they no longer ca

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Career Advancement

JULY 17, 2017

“Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person – not just an employee – are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied. customers, which leads to profitability.” ~Anne M. Mulcahy, former CEO of Xerox~. Client Theresa asks: Over the past year, two great employees on my team quit their new job.

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McKinsey

JULY 21, 2017

Robots have long carried out routine physical activities, but increasingly machines can also take on more sophisticated tasks. Experts provide advice on the skills people will need going forward.

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Eat Your Career

JULY 5, 2017

In the business world, it can be tempting to believe we’re all operating in the same objective reality. After all, we deal in things like facts and data. We forget sometimes that reality is actually quite subjective; it’s shaped by the observer. Different people can interpret the same facts and data in entirely different ways. In doing so, they can—in essence—create their own version of reality and shift the course of their future.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 20, 2017

In the Mailbag section of my site I answered a question from a woman who is worried about becoming financially dependent on her spouse if she doesn’t work. If you’ve been reading my writing for even a short amount of time, you already know what I told her : All people who have children are dependent on their partner. Because being a single parent is a million times harder than being a team.

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Strategy+Business

JULY 23, 2017

The relationship between a chief financial officer (CFO) and chief human resources officer (CHRO) can turn a company around. Between them, they control the major sources of capital available to a company: human, financial, and often information technology. One such collaboration took place at McGraw-Hill Companies starting in 2011, between CHRO John Berisford and CFO Jack Callahan.

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Career Advancement

JULY 3, 2017

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. ~ Peter Drucker ~. Kevin had been hired to turn the company around. He arrived to find a sluggish, apathetic staff. Most were warry of the change and unwilling to stick their neck out for anything. Kevin moved immediately to work on the three things that would most affect your employee’s productivity.

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McKinsey

JULY 21, 2017

Rapid advances in robotics and artificial intelligence are making inroads in the workplace, with machines carrying out physical and cognitive activities. What will this mean for employment?

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Eat Your Career

JULY 17, 2017

As a career coach , I hear a lot of the same questions. While human beings are endlessly unique, they’re also surprisingly similar. Many people struggle with the same career and workplace challenges. One of the most common questions I hear is this: “How do I know when it’s time to quit?”. It’s a hard question to answer because there are so many considerations.

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Lateral Action

JULY 31, 2017

This week’s guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Aileen Bennett, Roving Creative Director and Idea Thinker Upper. In today’s interview, we tackle a question that many creative people struggle with – what do you do when you look at the jobs on offer, and none of them seem the right fit? Not even […]. The post Creating a Job that Doesn’t Exist with Aileen Bennett appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Strategy+Business

JULY 16, 2017

Even at a time when e-commerce and digital currency are ubiquitous, retailers and banks are still struggling to design and adopt large-scale systems that allow seamless, frictionless electronic payments.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 27, 2017

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is about building brand awareness. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about team building. What’s your favorite team building experience? What are your best practices for building teams?

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Career Advancement

JULY 31, 2017

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”. ~ C.G. Jung ~. Cassidy had overheard some snide comments. She knew people were making snap judgements, based on gossip , about her that just weren’t true. How could she change negative work perceptions and get her co-workers to think more positively about her?

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McKinsey

JULY 27, 2017

A quick-service restaurant chain with thousands of outlets around the world is using data to drive a successful turnaround, increase customer satisfaction, and grow revenues.

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With the increased interest in reskilling and upskilling existing workforces, companies are looking for more training and development content and realizing that higher education has a lot to offer. Similarly, companies are finding value in providing training to students and preskilling their future workforce. The challenge is that the technology and platforms used to serve these two audiences have never had to work well together—until now.

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World Economic Forum

JULY 18, 2017

The technology that enables Bitcoin could redefine how artists distribute and are paid for their work.

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Lateral Action

JULY 24, 2017

This week’s guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Kristin Linklater, the world-renowned teacher of voice work for actors and speakers, and the author of Freeing the Natural Voice and Freeing Shakespeare’s Voice. I recorded this interview at Kristin’s Linklater Voice Centre, in her native Orkney, at the end of a week-long course on […].

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Strategy+Business

JULY 9, 2017

The shift to online shopping and in-store pickup for groceries -- led by Amazon and Walmart, heightened by Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 -- represents an existential threat to many supermarkets and other food sellers. Most have responded by strengthening the periphery: prepared food, wine, artisanal cheese, locally baked bread, and organic produce.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 25, 2017

Have you ever felt this way? You’ve got great ideas. You care deeply. AND you’re frustrated. Why is no one picking up what you’re putting down? Don’t give up. Take a careful look at your idea in the context of your other behaviors and interaction with the team. Five Surprising Reasons Your Ideas Aren’t Being Heard. 1. You’re Under-Invested.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 3, 2017

Yesterday “Doug,” a participant in one of our Winning Well workshops, asked, “Karin, if I were to walk into your office right now with the goal of convincing you I’m a rock star, what behaviors would get your attention?”. I’m always intrigued by what comes out of the other end of my microphone during spontaneous Q & A— the raw advice bubbling straight from my heart without the benefit of the backspace key.

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McKinsey

JULY 10, 2017

Senior executives need to understand the tactical as well as strategic opportunities, redesign their organizations, and commit to helping shape the debate about the future of work.

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McKinsey

JULY 19, 2017

In the United States, governments are increasingly turning to public-private partnerships (P3s) to implement public infrastructure works. Here’s why the benefits of P3 project delivery, not just financing, will continue to shift the market in this direction.

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McKinsey

JULY 20, 2017

Risk aversion, weak customer focus, and siloed mind-sets have long bedeviled organizations. In a digital world, solving these cultural problems is no longer optional.

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Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager

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McKinsey

JULY 17, 2017

McKinsey research finds seven levers can fix construction’s productivity problem, but they require a new approach from all players. We heard from industry leaders about which barriers to change are most likely to fall first.

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McKinsey

JULY 31, 2017

Many executives expect IT will play a growing role in driving business results, according to a new survey. For that to happen, CIOs must broaden their profiles and prove IT’s effectiveness in areas such as digital and innovation.

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McKinsey

JULY 20, 2017

During the age of entrepreneurship, the gap between rich and poor grew rapidly. New business models directing capital in a more purposeful, moral way can help change that.

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McKinsey

JULY 21, 2017

Independent work is on the rise, thanks in part to new digital platforms that allow people to find work and offer their skills. What will this do to traditional work routines?

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McKinsey

JULY 12, 2017

Digitization is causing a radical reordering of traditional industry boundaries. What will it take to play offense and defense in tomorrow’s ecosystems?

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McKinsey

JULY 28, 2017

New technologies are transforming all stages of the engineering and construction process. Here’s what companies need to know about the evolving landscape.

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McKinsey

JULY 14, 2017

The next generation of social technologies is beginning to transform the way people communicate and work with each other, according to a new survey.

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McKinsey

JULY 25, 2017

Agile promises rapidly evolving software and substantial business benefits, but it requires new habits from everyone: from IT and from business partners.

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