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What is Executive Coaching?

Organizational Talent Consulting

An excellent executive coach is experienced, trained, and qualified. Industrial and Commercial Training, 37 (7), 336-340. Take this free Virtual Coaching Fit Checker quiz to help you determine if virtual coaching is a good fit. What makes an excellent executive coach? The Leadership Quarterly. 29 (1), 70-88. Berglas, S. Bluckert, P.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business

Below is a sample of the research about what happens when algorithms are given control of tasks traditionally carried out by humans (all emphasis mine): In 2002 a team of economists studied the impact of automated underwriting algorithms in the mortgage lending industry. So what’s going on here?

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 5, Origins of Agile Approaches

Johanna Rothman

For example (books have affiliate Amazon links): Takeuchi and Nonaka published The New New Product Development Game in HBR in 1986. Preston Smith and Don Reinertsen published Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools in 1998. That set the scene for the Scrum certifications in about 2002. Womack and Daniel T.

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Finding Surprising Success by Supporting Interesting Failure

Organizational Talent Consulting

Organizations desire certainty, success, and efficiency, and it is uncertainty, failure, and inefficiency that are sources of innovation. While this approach results in high-quality and low-cost products and services, the hidden financial and non-financial costs of avoiding failure are severe. Leaders fail as much as they succeed.

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What GM’S Layoffs Reveal About the Digitalization of the Auto Industry

Harvard Business

GM’s layoffs are not just incremental but existential, in that sense: They are about accelerating the staffing changes mandated by the company’s aggressive transition from analog to digital products and from gasoline to electric power. What should be done instead?

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PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Management Consulted

An ERP system is an enterprise business management software program that organizes and tracks large company’s resources (cash, raw materials, production capacity, etc.) It helps facilitate error-free transactions and production (before ERP, people actually used odd things like pens, paper and ledgers to keep track of their stuff).