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How Project Managers Can Better Navigate Setbacks

Harvard Business

Setbacks are common on projects — but project managers hold four key tools to understand why they happen and how to help their teams move past them. First, understand the neuroscience behind setbacks to encourage people to learn and grow. Second, openly acknowledge that a setback has occurred to prevent backsliding. Third, adopt a growth mindset to help others strive for improvement instead of getting stuck on autopilot.

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Accelerating Small Business Growth With Professional Assistance

Business Consulting Agency

In the dynamic and fiercely competitive landscape of the business world, small businesses often encounter significant challenges as they strive to establish a strong market presence, drive sustained growth, and maximize their business potential within the competitive global marketplace. As small businesses navigate the intricacies of business operations and embrace the transformative power of strategic innovation, the comprehensive support provided by small business consulting services has emerg

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Balancing Profit and Purpose with Your Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

Digital transformation can be a tool for doing both well and good. The authors look to the example of the Dutch Lottery, or Nederlandse Loterij (NLO), which faced a wave of digital disruptors that operated in a legal gray zone offering pure online products. In response, the company proposed implementing a “KPI butterfly” to balance doing well (making money) against doing good (protecting society) as part of its digital transformation process.

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The Important Strategic Pricing™ Executive Summary

Granite Leadership Strategies

Most Government contractors think an executive summary for a Federal proposal is only for the technical volume. If you choose to use an executive summary for only the technical proposal because you think the evaluators will only read that one, you have missed out on a big opportunity. A strategic pricing executive summary has six important anatomy components of a great price volume.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Creating Customer Service Bots That People Don’t Hate

Harvard Business

From physical robots to digital chatbots, service bots are revolutionizing the workplace. To understand how consumers perceive firms that employ service bots, researchers conducted six experiments in which customers interacted with either a bot or a human service provider. Their field and laboratory experiments found that consumers believe the use of bots is motivated by cost-cutting and profit maximization at the expense of the customer experience.

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Get More Funding for Your R&D Initiatives

Harvard Business

Although financial analysts widely acknowledge that innovation is a key driver of business growth and business sustainability, the financial markets do not reward innovation investments, largely because companies do a poor job of making innovation transparent to investors and analysts. There are legitimate reasons for being careful with information but the authors argue that companies could benefit from sharing progress with their project pipelines and communicating their decision-making progres

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The 2 x 4 lessons

Seth Godin Blog

You’ll need two 8-foot boards and six five-gallon buckets. Each board is a standard 2 x 4, about two inches by four inches in size. And the bucket is about two feet deep. The first lesson is simple: Put the board on the floor and have a colleague walk from one end to the other. Now, put it across three buckets and try again. It should be clear that the fear is all imagined.

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How Do I Find Meaning in my Work?

Harvard Business

A leader who feels something is missing in his career must learn how to define his purpose.

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ADHD Is Different for Women

Harvard Business

How to take charge of this life-long condition.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Bridging the Confidence Gap in Generative AI - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DATAROBOT

Harvard Business

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