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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. In the 1940’s, Peter Drucker praised the company for its product decentralization but criticized it, even back then, for treating employees as a feudal cost center rather than a base of knowledge and potential.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

2024 Healthcare Project Delivery Conference January, 30-31, San Diego, USA This year’s conference will focus on implementing developments in procurement, design, financing, and O&M in healthcare projects. The other track, Product Design and Management, will attract product managers, UI/UX designers, and researchers.

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow

The second dimension represents the maturity levels based on the Capability Maturity Model developed by the Software Engineering Institute (one of the most popular and widely-accepted models of organizational maturity assessment). Let’s take a look at these levels. . Level #1: Initial process. Management Maturity Model.

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. It may seem strange to have both a benchmark rate and a “floating range” that establishes a cap, instead of just setting a cap, as was the case until very recently.

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Show report: CX and EX inextricably linked, with empathy as the glue

1 to 1

Youtuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober illustrated the power of connectivity with a science demonstration, releasing thousands of balloons at once to earn a spot in the Guinness World Book of Records. So often, we design something that works for HR or finance or technology and guess what? It doesn’t work for employees.” “How

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

1 to 1

Detecting and understanding customer intent can give brands clarity into what a customer is trying to do beyond what they are saying or clicking on, whether it’s an upsell opportunity, a chance to deepen the customer relationship, increase customer retention, enhance a product or service, or something else.

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Saying Farewell to a Great Audience: The Final Blog…

Confessions of a Consultant

Final Countdown: For this final blog I’ve taken the liberty to select two topics (a) Improving your personal performance (b) developing a highly productive organisation. You benchmark best practices, stealing ideas shamelessly from clients and competitors. In my experience it’s never about sectors or product type.