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How Do I Stay Motivated When My Peers Are Lazy?

Let's Grow Leaders

Dear Karin and David, How do I stay motivated when my peers are lazy? I’m working twice as hard as them and I’m sick of picking up the slack. My boss doesn’t seem to notice. Signed, Tired and Frustrated #AskingForAFriend Do’s and […].

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Four Advantages of Leveraging a Cross-Functional Team

Career Advancement

“Entrepreneurs as ‘soloists’ will be replaced by orchestras playing a stronger, more credible tune.” ~Steve Case~. Tamara felt her department was too isolated from the rest of the organization. As she stepped into a higher-level managerial position, she talked with her mentor about how to change this situation. Her mentor advised her to develop a cross-functional team of people who worked together in close communication.

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The trillion-dollar prize: Plugging government revenue leaks with advanced analytics

McKinsey

Few fiscal opportunities are bigger than reducing revenue leakages from tax and payment abuse. Now, new sources of data and new analytics tools are giving governments the upper hand.

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Is Company Culture Your Competitive Advantage or Hidden Inertia?

BetterUp

In thriving organizations, culture looks like (and often is) the hidden “secret sauce.” On the flip side, in failing organizations, culture is often blamed for preventing change. When we envision what the two look like, they could not appear more dissimilar in our minds. The culture of engagement, passion, and purpose versus the culture of punching clocks and sacred cows.

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The Ultimate Guide to Marketing Your Training Program

Learning how to promote your training courses online is key to growing your training business. In this Ultimate Guide to Marketing we cover effective and modern marketing strategies that will help you market your training program, and sell more courses. You’ll learn how to: Harness the power of SEO to drive website traffic Convert more website visitors to sales Create smart email marketing campaigns Get the most out of course marketplaces Establish a referral program And more… Get ready to see y

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7 Big Rules For a Successful Talent Review

Let's Grow Leaders

Their faces turned a little green when they realized I was in earshot. “I’ll talk up your candidate if you talk up mine,” and “Let’s be sure to downplay their developmental opportunities so they end up in the right box (referring to the […].

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A Tale of Two. Pivots

PerfectCoaches

Oh, were you expecting the word cities? Sorry. Just trying to get your attention. As a technology start-up, the VARI Group has come to have a love-hate relationship with the concept of “a pivot.” As Alan Spoon said in Inc. online, “Pivoting” is a familiar word in the startup world. When your first business model isn’t working (and this happens more often than not), the CEO and team pivot to plan B.

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Can Craft Beer Continue to Tap into Growth?

Strategy+Business

After experiencing rapid growth for decades, the craft brewery industry is beginning to slow down. Amid saturation, the market is developing into a barbell shape, with smaller microbreweries and larger players on the periphery occupying stronger positions than midsized players at the center. Midsized brewers can pursue organic growth by develop new products or opening additional outlets.

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Introducing customer success 2.0: The new growth engine

McKinsey

Can software vendors and other companies identify more opportunities to grow and deliver value by taking a fresh look at customer success?

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Why you need a CTO—and how to make her successful

McKinsey

Feeling unprepared for technical disruption? A well-structured role for a chief technology officer is a first line of defense.

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Four innovations reshaping tax administration

McKinsey

New insights from McKinsey research suggest that across the globe, tax authorities diverge in the maturity of their innovation in four areas: digitized interactions, advanced analytics, process automation, and talent management.

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Next Level eLearning – The AI-powered Courseware Coach

Introducing Willow from WILL Interactive – a new artificial instructor technology that coaches users through eLearning content to increase training ROI. Using active conversations with a virtual expert not only reinforces key concepts but also helps employees think critically and creatively. Willow can ask questions, analyze responses, and deliver personalized feedback.

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Working across many cultures at Western Union

McKinsey

The CEO of the global money-transfer company explains how it brings in the multicultural voice of the consumer through a broadly diverse team of top executives.

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PSD2: Taking advantage of open-banking disruption

McKinsey

Europe’s second Payment Services Directive opens attractive opportunities for established payments organizations. But to win, banks will need to capture this disruption and turn it to their advantage.

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Spinning customer insights into business gold

McKinsey

Few healthcare organizations fully leverage customer insights to drive decision making and performance. Here’s how you can translate that data into concrete business initiatives.

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Unlocking the digital opportunity in metals

McKinsey

Driving a full digital transformation of a metal company is a complex undertaking. To succeed, companies need to develop a scalable model, with a set of standards in place covering roles, tools, and working methods.

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Shaping a Better Future by Uniting Corporate and Higher Education Content

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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Food security in Japan: Building a strategy in an age of global competition

McKinsey

The country faces a set of agricultural challenges in its move toward a more secure food supply, which can be addressed with a focus on five actions.

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Artificial Intelligence: What to Expect in 2018

Strategy+Business

Eight ways that AI is likely to reshape business in the next 12 months. For further insights, see PwC's study.

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When a Japanese Company Adopted English as a First Language

Strategy+Business

In her new book, Harvard Business School Professor Tsedal Neeley examines the challenge of establishing a lingua franca in global companies.

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Rewards Cards Test the Limits of Customer Loyalty

Strategy+Business

How I liberated myself from points and why it matters to your company.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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A Strategist's Guide to China's Belt and Road Initiative

Strategy+Business

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a vast, interconnected infrastructure project spanning 68 countries and regions that have a combined population of 4.4 billion and that represent a third of the world's economic output. It will be larger than the U.S.-led Marshall Plan that spearheaded the revival of Europe after World War II -- and could spark a 21st-century expansion of global economic growth, technology exchange, and, inevitably, Chinese influence.

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