Tue.Jun 06, 2023

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An Easy Routine that Will Help Your Consulting Firm Grow

David A Fields

As a consulting firm leader, you’re winning projects, delivering client delight, upgrading your support infrastructure and pondering strategies for growth. What if there was a simple routine you could layer into your ongoing activities that would accelerate your progress? Your consulting firm may already incorporate a post-project retrospective into your standard operating approach.

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The Art of Persuasion: Building Buy-In and Inspiring Teams for Success W/ Alastair Wood

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Have you ever needed to secure buy-in from a board member or a potential employee in order to have them join your team or gain their support for a project? How did you handle the situation, and what insights did you gain from it? In this interview, we have the privilege of talking to Alastair Wood , Vice-President & General Counsel at Rhino , a New York-based real estate startup that aims to bring greater financial freedom to renters everywhere.

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Managing the Risks of Generative AI

Harvard Business

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become widely popular, but its adoption by businesses comes with a degree of ethical risk. Organizations must prioritize the responsible use of generative AI by ensuring it is accurate, safe, honest, empowering, and sustainable. Organizations need to be mindful of the ethical implications and take necessary steps to reduce risks.

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A Riff on the Padres/MLB/RSN and the Business of Sports…

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

Is it possible for the Padres and MLB to maintain the same business model and revenue now that Diamond Sports Group has walked away from its media rights deal? No. I’ve got two reasons why I think this doesn’t work: The idea of sliding from the RSN model to an OTT model is hard to imagine. In most cases, the RSN model has worked because cable subscribers were locked into 24-month contracts and most of the packages included channels like the RSNs that customers didn’t really car

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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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AI Prompt Engineering Isn’t the Future

Harvard Business

Despite the buzz surrounding it, the prominence of prompt engineering may be fleeting. A more enduring and adaptable skill will keep enabling us to harness the potential of generative AI? It is called problem formulation — the ability to identify, analyze, and delineate problems.

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Build a Strong Learning Culture on Your Team

Harvard Business

With the nature of work changing so rapidly, it’s no longer enough just to offer employees opportunities for upskilling and reskilling. Companies also need to help workers become “expert learners” — and a key way of doing that, the learning-and-development expert James McKenna writes, is to follow the principles of the Universal Design Framework for learning, or UDL.

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How to Create More Accountability at Work

LSA Global

Defining More Accountability at Work Many leaders who evaluate their corporate culture to determine why the organization is not performing at its peak blame a lack of accountability at work. We agree that companies need to consistently perform at higher levels to succeed and that the best leaders make a culture of accountability a priority. But we also maintain that leaders need to shift the way they think about more accountability at work.

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The Opioid Crisis, CEO Pay, and Shareholder Activism

Harvard Business

How can one company best hold itself accountable for its role in the opioid crisis?

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LSA GLOBAL DELIVERS LEADING TEAMS WORKSHOP AT BIOTECH COMPANY

LSA Global

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a Leading Teams Workshop at a leading Biotech company. 100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 133% Knowledge Gain 100% Net Promoter Score This fast-paced biotech client wanted managers to have the competence and confidence to lead and build high

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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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Why More Companies Should Have a Sabbatical Policy

Harvard Business

A conversation with HBS lecturer DJ DiDonna on the value of extended time off.

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Navigating Employee Conflicts: A Manager’s Guide to Restoring Harmony and Productivity

Peter Stark

Most seasoned managers have had, at some point in their careers, to deal with two employees who either disliked each other or refused to work together. When managers find themselves with employee conflicts on their teams, they often find that the morale and productivity of their team has been impacted as well. If the conflict is substantial enough, you might even find yourself with a downright toxic workplace environment.