Fri.Sep 22, 2023

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Master the Meeting: How To Facilitate Like A Pro With The 3 Ps

Consulting Success

“The outcome of a bad meeting is more meetings.” We have all been there: meetings that could have been an email, over-attended but under-engaged. One person speaks and everyone else is busy answering emails. The meeting was planned to move everyone forward or get everyone on the same page, poor meetings create more meetings. Why?

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Common Career Benefits: The Good, The Bad, and The Unused

Tom Spencer

Imagine this: you are three months away from graduating, and you have five job offers printed out and sitting in front of you on the table. Which one do you pick? If all else is equal, you pick the highest paying one, right? Or, do you pick the one that moves you to your dream city? Obviously, you pick the one with the best signing bonus and company car, right?

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5 Types of Stories Leaders Need to Tell

Harvard Business

Storytelling is an important leadership skill, and executives who want to succeed should master five types of narrative: Vision stories, which inspire a shared one; values stories that model the way; action stories that spark progress and change; teaching stories that transmit knowledge and skills to others; and trust stories that help people understand, connect with, and believe in you.

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Driving Growth and Success: How Medium-Sized Companies Succeed

Business Consulting Agency

Medium-sized companies in the United States are the backbone of the economy, contributing significantly to job creation and economic growth. These companies often face unique challenges as they strive to scale and compete in a dynamic business environment. To navigate these challenges successfully, many medium-sized companies are turning to business consulting services.

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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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How Software Companies Can Avoid the Trap of Product-Led Growth

Harvard Business

Companies like Slack and Dropbox have pioneered the use of Product-Led Growth (PLG). They start by building a product that’s indispensable for small teams, then count on low friction and customer advocates to expand throughout the organization. PLG works, at least at first. But it can create challenges for growing companies. The answer isn’t to reject PLG.

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How the Food Industry Is Using Cross-Training to Boost Service

Harvard Business

Cross-training employees on a variety of tasks can be a powerful tool for improving operations, as well as for attracting and retaining workers. When employees are cross-trained to perform a variety of both customer-facing and non-customer-facing tasks, they can adjust their work depending on demand and business needs. Of course, that’s good for the business, but it also makes the job better for workers.

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Getting to no

Seth Godin Blog

“Yes” is magical. It brings possibility and forward motion. But it’s almost impossible without “no” and no can be just as frightening. First, there’s the no of “I can’t go for that.” The no of refusing to race to the bottom, the no of avoiding the selfish hustle, the no of walking away from instincts or shortcuts that strip others of dignity and possibility.

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What It Means to Be a Moral Leader

Harvard Business

Dov Seidman makes people think, hard, not just about what they do but about how they do it. He’s so focused on the “how” that he created the HOW Institute for Society, which encourages leaders to pursue a path of moral leadership. He even wrote a book called How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything. In this episode of our weekly live series “The New World of Work,” Seidman provides insights and inspiration about what good, moral leadership looks like these days — in an era of perpetual disru

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Will generative AI solve the CX industry’s omnichannel problem?

1 to 1

For decades, contact center and CX organizations have strived to become “omnichannel.” Rather than force customers into interactions dictated by the company, an omnichannel system enables customers to engage with a brand on their channel of choice when, where, and how they prefer. It’s a great idea, but implementation has proven very difficult , especially for large enterprise organizations working with legacy data and siloed systems.

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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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Web3 Could Change the Business Model of Creative Work

Harvard Business

Web3 — the read-write-own web — could offer a new model for creative work. By offering new tools to earn and own assets, build wealth, and wrestle back control from powerful platforms and intermediaries, it has the potential to simplify how creators fund their ventures and new ways to earn a living, not just on the first sale of a work of art but in perpetuity thanks to programmatic royalty streams paid via smart contracts, self-executing code that can move and store money.

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4 Fundamental Steps to High Revenue Growth

LSA Global

High Revenue Growth Requires a Company-wide Mindset and Effort While most CEOs seek (or are required to achieve) high growth, the vast majority of companies grow revenue less than 10 percent per year and, for the last 30 years, only one in ten S&P 500 companies grew faster than the GDP. Consistent and profitable high revenue growth does not come easily because it is a company-wide effort that requires an aspirational, thoughtful, and achievable company-wide plan that everyone buys into perso

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