Sat.Jan 13, 2018 - Fri.Jan 19, 2018

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about Strategy and Alignment

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on Strategy and Alignment. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on strategy. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to […].

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Why digital strategies fail

McKinsey

Most digital strategies don’t reflect how digital is changing economic fundamentals, industry dynamics, or what it means to compete. Companies should watch out for five pitfalls.

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The Magic of Predicting Demand from Data

Strategy+Business

The application by companies of demand sensing can significantly improve their ability to predict when consumers might demand a product. Using digital technology and data, demand sensing allows for a far more efficient supply chain, too.

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Can’t Keep a Job? Here’s Why

Eat Your Career

Every week, I get a ton of emails from blog readers with career questions they want me to answer. Typically, I don’t provide career advice via email—that’s why we have the monthly Q&A (“Ask the Career Coach”) video sessions. Anyone can attend for free and submit questions of their own. But one question I get asked a lot is about job hopping. People want to know why they can’t keep a job.

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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 Easy and Innovative Ways to Make Your New Hire’s Day

Let's Grow Leaders

Your new hire is driving home from her very first day. What’s she feeling? What’s she going to tell her kids about mommy’s new job? When she wakes up at 3 am anticipating Day 2, what’s on her mind? The statistics are […].

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Delivering through diversity

McKinsey

Our latest research reinforces the link between diversity and company financial performance—and suggests how organizations can craft better inclusion strategies for a competitive edge.

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Is Your China Strategy Ready for Anything?

Strategy+Business

For many multinationals, making strategic planning and investment decisions for their business in China is more difficult than ever before. Yet MNCs have no choice but to be proactive, despite not knowing exactly what the future will look like and what challenges it will bring. By following five key steps, company leaders can prepare for potential disruptions.

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Retraining and reskilling workers in the age of automation

McKinsey

Executives increasingly see investing in retraining and “upskilling” existing workers as an urgent business priority that companies, not governments, must lead on.

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Mitigating risk in IT megaprojects

McKinsey

Public-sector IT projects are highly susceptible to delays and cost overruns. Some leading-edge governments are finding ways to avoid those pitfalls.

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Accelerating digital transformations: A playbook for utilities

McKinsey

Utilities trying to reinvent themselves as digital enterprises have found it hard to scale up from digital pilots. Adopting digital ways of working, adding talent, and modernizing IT will hasten transformation.

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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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Looking behind the numbers for US stock indexes

McKinsey

Record-high equity markets are prompting worries that stocks are overpriced. But a closer look finds that the market’s current value may not seem so extreme.

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Organizing for the age of urgency

McKinsey

To compete at the speed of digital, you need to unleash your strategy, your structure, and your people.

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The five trademarks of agile organizations

McKinsey

Agile organizations—of any size and across industries—have five key elements in common.

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Europe’s economy: Three pathways to rebuilding trust and sustaining momentum

McKinsey

Europe has an opportunity to ensure that growth and well-being continue in the long term, and to strengthen trust in its institutions.

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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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Small doesn’t mean unprofitable: Unlocking new value from small-to-medium metal and mining projects

McKinsey

Managing smaller projects with increased rigor and a through-cycle mentality can help companies to capture significant untapped value.

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Putting citizens first: How Latin American cities can be smart

McKinsey

For Latin America’s cities to remain competitive, they must understand their citizens’ experiences and needs—and design policies accordingly.

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Global Finance Resets

McKinsey

The decline of cross-border capital flows signals a stronger global financial system, write Susan Lund and Philipp Harle in International Monetary Fund.

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Starting a Transformation? Don't Change Everything!

Strategy+Business

Three conversations that can mobilize your team during a reorganization.

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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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Can Workaholism Be Good for You?

Strategy+Business

For people who put in long hours but love their jobs, a sense of fulfillment seems to offset unhealthy stress.

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Small doesn’t mean unprofitable: Unlocking new value in metals and mining

McKinsey

Managing smaller projects with increased rigor and a through-cycle mentality can help companies to capture significant untapped value.

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MARPOL implications on refining and shipping markets

McKinsey

Opportunities will depend on how other sectors respond.

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