Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2017

As I’ve discovered from both personal experience and research, it is possible to learn to like — even to grow to love — subject areas that look boring or that you once loathed. The first step in building passion for a subject you don’t like is to identify a reason to learn it. Here’s how to do it.

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Chad Barr

MAY 18, 2016

What if, instead, they had shut off their ideas from those around them, and never showcased their amazing intellectual property? Listen carefully to these topics, and then write articles and blogs, make videos, and create podcasts that address those subjects. Schedule quiet time to create content.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I've committed to projects and timelines, later wondering how I could be so off in the first place. Validity relates to the extent that the feedback takes into consideration the subject matter expertise of the topic, your situation, and the context. Have you ever overestimated your ability to get a project done?

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Prudent Pedal

MARCH 27, 2020

Continue client work-Clients come first and the extra time allows us to go deeper and add more value. Now we can take advantage of the time. Optimize inbound conversion rates on marketing channels-While CRO is a never-ending exercise, this hiatus allows time to experiment more with updated content, the mix, and its messaging.

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Buzzsprout

JULY 2, 2023

While some podcasters shoot to fame, most have a small target audience that they build over time. Pick a podcast theme or topic You should feel excited to regularly discuss and research your podcast topic. The more you enjoy your topic, the less likely you'll experience podfade. Otter.ai | $13 per month Otter.ai

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Harvard Business

APRIL 8, 2016

The conversation begins, but after 10 minutes of good discussion on the first agenda item, someone goes off on a tangent that, while interesting, is only marginally related to the designated topic. In fact, research suggests that “getting off the subject” is the number one challenge to meeting productivity.

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Rod Burkert

DECEMBER 10, 2019

But it can lead to many unsolicited requests for a “quick” call or meeting to pick our brain on a topic someone believes we know a lot about. A general willingness to help and professional courtesy aside, responding to all of those requests can be a time suck and won’t pay our bills. What can we do? This is what we do!

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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 4, 2016

This can be a statistic, a little known truth about your subject matter, or anything that will make your audience sit up and take notice. This is a particularly useful tool for presenters who are discussing topics that might not be considered exciting or intriguing to the audience. Lessons Learned.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2016

I have felt, for quite some time, that American business schools are myopic when it comes to understanding international business issues and globalization outside of maximizing profit. Drucker once wrote that once a subject becomes obsolete, it is taught in the classroom, but that is not the feeling I have here.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2016

After all — this was his meeting, not mine — and I need the points taken off my driving record. Subjects were led to believe they were part of a group discussion about personal problems, in which one participant is struck with an epileptic seizure. Take responsibility for your time. More often than not they will.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

It’s an important piece that discusses a topic that is often seen as controversial. Lou and I go into even more detail on this subject in episode #024 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast. These have become the values and traits I place on decision-makers in times of emergency. Adaptive Crisis Response.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

Have you been putting off an important-but-difficult conversation? Either way, your dread is probably growing over time as you imagine worse and worse scenarios for how the conversation will play out. First, the longer you put off the conversation, the more obscured the facts will become.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

If the topic of sexual harassment hasn’t come up in your office – either on Slack, in conversations over lunch, or by the watercooler — I’d be surprised. With the ongoing #metoo campaign and the almost daily headlines about men accused of harassing their coworkers, this subject is top of mind for many of us.

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

Using a topic extraction algorithm ( Latent Dirichlet allocation with stop words removed and hyperparameters optimized), we extracted descriptive topics that characterize the data set. Each of these topics includes a set of common words and their frequency. Long-Term Goals – Where Are Millennials Hoping to Go?

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2017

When an employee looks unkempt or wears revealing clothing, they may have a harder time gaining their colleagues’ or customers’ respect. But how do you broach what feels like a sensitive topic? “It’s uncomfortable and awkward,” he says, “and at the end of the day, a lot of it is subjective.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

We are living in times when it’s increasingly difficult — if not impossible — to go into the office and leave what’s going on outside behind. For many people, topics involving politics or social issues have been considered taboo at work. They might even fall off your house. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. Research has shown that vacations planned more than a month in advance are restorative, whereas the stress of vacations booked at the last minute can negate the positive impacts of the time off.)

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2015

These extend from basic introduction-to-consulting workshops, to advanced excel/ppt skills, and of course regular seminars hosted by senior partners to discuss their white papers, recent interesting or topical projects, and subjects relevant to us all. During critical times, the hours may be longer. Tom: What is A.T.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

It’s an important piece that discusses a topic that is often seen as controversial. Lou and I go into even more detail on this subject in episode #024 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast. These have become the values and traits I place on decision-makers in times of emergency. Adaptive Crisis Response.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The idea was to take the structure of a popular song, rewrite just one of the five aspects of the song as a SIMPLIFIED LEARNING exercise to learn the rules of thumb to learn the basics; then cycle through one at a time re-writing one piece, while keeping the others aspects constant. If you want to tell someone off, that’s pretty easy to do.

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Buzzsprout

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Choosing the right topic for your new podcast is foundational to your show's success. If you're passionate and curious about your topic, you're more likely to attract loyal listeners and stay motivated to create consistent content. JUMP TO A SECTION : 60 Unique podcast topic ideas 1. Talking Tech The Vergecast 5.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

Research has repeatedly shown that women are subject to a phenomenon known as the “ likability conundrum.” We often assume that if we work hard, people will notice it over time, or that if we’ve made a transition, it will make intuitive sense to others. Control your narrative.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Perhaps you don’t have an angry mob yelling at your meeting but there are lots of crises that managers face when a meeting goes off the rails. The discussion shifts from topic to topic with no resolution. Alan needs to pull employees off projects to attend trainings. Here are some examples: Mutual monologue.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

Topics Covered: How to Write a Resume That Will Get You the Interview. Talk about your career experience as well as what you achieved during your time in each position. They’re boring to read, and they show that you’re unwilling to put in the time and effort to write something unique. How to Network Your Way to an Interview.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 15, 2006

I promise to get off this topic in the next post, but first, just one more point on the "too many nonprofits" debate: JW of "Selfish Giving" added a comment to yesterday's post on the subject pointing to his excellent blog on the same topic (I've just added his site to the blogroll).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Even though I knew that eating ice cream and sitting for a long time were probably bad ideas, I told myself that relaxation was my well-deserved reward for working so hard. In the study, the researchers asked two sets of subjects to wait in a room where there were two plates of food.

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MishTalk

MARCH 31, 2014

CBS Video High-Speed Traders Rip Investors Off Michael Lewis says High-Speed Traders Rip Investors Off. Trading firms pay to place their systems in the same data centers as the exchanges, a practice known as co-location that lets them directly plug in their companies’ servers and shave millionths of a second off transactions.

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Emerson Consulting Group

APRIL 4, 2019

Yet many of the reasons that have always propelled business experts to take the time and trouble to write and publish an article (or two or more) still ring true today, ensuring those of us who do make the effort will surely reap the benefits of competitive advantage when measured against those who do not. Let me see if I have it with me.”.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

She suggests “immersing yourself in your topic area” by regularly attending industry conferences, enrolling in a class or specialized certification program, or taking on a leadership role in a relevant professional organization. Her efforts paid off. Don’t keep your knowledge under wraps. Map a strategy.

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Nash Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

If meetings are accomplishing their goal and helping people to better manage their work and work relationships, people stop seeing meetings as an assault on their precious and finite time and begin to view them as an opportunity for better performance, increased productivity, and most importantly, greater workplace satisfaction.

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 26, 2009

but thinks this time it'll be different. What can be disheartening are the nice-to-have consulting, nice-if-we-have-time-to-solve problem statement situations. How these types of situations arise is probably a whole topic of discussion in of itself, but I do not think such situations are limited to consulting. The ANALyst.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Few topics have captivated talent management discussions more intensely than potential. And what if this promotion really helps Sophie’s career take off, to the point of eclipsing Ben’s? At times, politics may even drive managers to nominate faux-pos (fake HiPos) purely to avoid uncomfortable situations.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2016

And are there times when you have to accept that the relationship may never get better? Be patient, he adds — it will take time to win back his good opinion. If you’re “unsure of what your boss expects, it’s time to clarify,” says Hill. Manzoni suggests talking to manager about topics beyond work.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2017

Unlike a relaxed chat with a friend, this encounter requires that you rattle off all your relevant skills, experiences, strengths, and interests in an efficient and effective manner so that your listeners are quickly reassured that their time with you is worthwhile (and might even be extended).

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

Believe it or not, there was a time when things like involving people in action-planning, group decision-making, action research, feedback, high-performance/high-satisfaction team-development, leadership and management coaching, the stages in the consulting process—and a host of other standard OD practices—did not exist.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

This is a popular topic in psychology, and researchers have investigated many contributing factors, such as differing attachment styles , coping mechanisms , and levels of self-esteem. What was going on with the timing or with the other person?” So what makes one person more resilient than another in the face of rejection?

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Over the last 15 years or so, I have struggled at times with depression and suicidal thoughts. This is the first time I’ve spoken or written publicly about these challenges. I’m not an expert on this topic. My goal is to have a dialogue around an important topic that has many taboos and stigmas surrounding it.

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