Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 8, 2018
“Why does my manager care if I go directly to his boss with an idea? Good ideas are good ideas, right?” “Customers don’t need all that formality. They’re chill. Why can’t I just show up and give them an update?” “When the […]. The post How Do I Convince My Manager I’m a Professional appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
McKinsey
MAY 10, 2018
The University of Chicago professor explains how executives can battle back against biases that can affect their decision making.
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Penelope Trunk
MAY 7, 2018
Around 20% of the people I coach are black, and race usually comes up in conversation, but not in a very interesting way. However, recently I coached a black guy who was so interesting that I stayed on the phone with him an extra hour. I used to think transactionally: you pay $350 I talk for an hour. Then I announced a temporary discount to $150 if people call at 7am or 10pm, and I thought I’d be annoyed talking for so low an hourly rate, but I have to admit that I talk to more revolutiona
Strategy+Business
MAY 10, 2018
In Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me, Andrew Santella explores procrastination, and why it is that whenever there is a job to do, you can count on someone putting it off.
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World Economic Forum
MAY 7, 2018
We all struggle to identify fake news, select reliable sources and focus on what really matters. How can we manage the endless stream of information while conveying our own message to the world?
McKinsey
MAY 11, 2018
Roadways clogged by commercial vehicles and intense competition for affordable housing are imposing costs on prosperous cities and their most vulnerable residents.
Professional Development Brief brings together the best content for development professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Strategy+Business
MAY 6, 2018
In the face of heightened urgency, some companies are seeking to go "carbon negative" by finding ways to actively pull carbon dioxide from the air and lock it into their products. For manufacturers, this means getting access to carbon-negative raw materials. And they will soon have more options for doing so, thanks to an emerging new industrial sector.
Eat Your Career
MAY 7, 2018
In my work as a career coach, I meet a lot of promising professionals who feel professionally stuck. They complain of being overlooked, unappreciated, passed over, undervalued and ignored. Many of these people feel like victims. It’s my job to help empower them to take responsibility for their part, which is often bigger than they originally thought.
McKinsey
MAY 10, 2018
From high-tech unicorns to specialty chemicals, the country’s economy is moving swiftly beyond its lower-margin roots.
Vantage Circle
MAY 10, 2018
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. -Mark Twain. You put your heart and soul into building a product or a service, once it is built it is only natural for you to want to show it to the world. But think it through, do you really want to just show it or do you want to grab the attention of your potential consumers?
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
Strategy+Business
MAY 8, 2018
High-profile companies that frequently use consumer data are targets, and negative effects linger for years.
McKinsey
MAY 9, 2018
Platforms are the favored operating model of seven of the world’s 12 largest corporations. So why have so few old-line companies followed suit?
McKinsey
MAY 8, 2018
While there is general agreement that real-world evidence could significantly improve how healthcare stakeholders make decisions, expanding its use requires action by multiple stakeholders.
McKinsey
MAY 10, 2018
Companies will need to increase automation and streamline their organization if they are not to be overwhelmed by the challenge of sustaining GDPR compliance over the long term.
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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.
McKinsey
MAY 11, 2018
Early 2018 sees the chemical industry back in position as the top performer in its value chain.
McKinsey
MAY 10, 2018
Medical information teams can be a source of differentiation if used strategically. But the evolving environment means pharma manufacturers will need to make organizational enhancements to get ahead.
McKinsey
MAY 11, 2018
The following article is an extract from the annual white paper of the McKinsey Global Insurance Pools team. The report describes global trends in the insurance industry, leveraging the McKinsey Global Insurance Pools database.
McKinsey
MAY 10, 2018
The concept of deep learning has been around since the 1950s. Take a brief look at how it evolved from concept to actuality and the key people who made it happen.
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.
Strategy+Business
MAY 6, 2018
Digitization has permanently reshaped the global entertainment and media (E&M) ecosystem. The most successful E&M companies have always benefited from multiple revenue streams. But today profitable growth may depend on having five, six, or even more revenue streams -- an often fluid portfolio of bets on areas outside core business and traditional product lines.
Strategy+Business
MAY 8, 2018
The presence of risk requires robust systems for trading on and underwriting that risk. For that reason, the underwriting of technological change will soon become one of the core competencies that companies must develop or acquire to compete in the bionic age -- an age in which companies will succeed based on their ability to leverage financial, human, natural, behavior, cognitive, and network capital.
Strategy+Business
MAY 8, 2018
The presence of risk requires robust systems for trading on and underwriting that risk. For that reason, the underwriting of technological change will soon become one of the core competencies that companies must develop or acquire to compete in the bionic age -- an age in which companies will succeed based on their ability to leverage financial, human, natural, behavior, cognitive, and network capital.
Strategy+Business
MAY 6, 2018
Digitization has permanently reshaped the global entertainment and media (E&M) ecosystem. The most successful E&M companies have always benefited from multiple revenue streams. But today profitable growth may depend on having five, six, or even more revenue streams -- an often fluid portfolio of bets on areas outside core business and traditional product lines.
Advertiser: Paycor
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Vantage Circle
MAY 10, 2018
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” . ~ Mark Twain. You put your heart and soul into building a product or a service, once it is built it is only natural for you to want to show it to the world. But think it through, do you really want to just show it or do you want to grab the attention of your potential consumers?
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