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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

I attended a meeting led by the VP of construction for a company for which I was the VP of marketing. I joined the meeting virtually from another part of the building via Microsoft Teams. After the meeting, he called me back into the conference room. The president of the company sat beside the VP in the same room.

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How Diligent Biz Dev Led to a Six-Figure Consulting Project

Successful Independent Consulting

The short answer: business development. The long answer: diligent business development that built a relationship over time. I've written about this before, that business development = relationship development , but let’s walk through the steps I took to foster this half-million-dollar contract. (If

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How Future-Proof Are Your Leadership Skills?

Organizational Talent Consulting

No leader sets out to become obsolete, and developing leadership habits is a competitive advantage. Here are two timeless leadership skills and four low-cost, high-impact leadership development ideas to keep you growing and bring out your best in the new year. Why develop future-proof leadership skills? What occurred?

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

From being vulnerable to saying what others don't want to hear to endless Zoom meetings. The next time you find yourself in a meeting, and you don't know why you are there. Developing your cultural agility requires dedicated effort and investment to break from the typical classroom presentation, book, or eLearning module.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

Nike halved the size of its digital unit in 2014 by discontinuing its Nike+ Fuelband activity tracker and some other investments. Several key lessons emerge when heavy commitments to digital capability development meet basic financial performance problems. Lego recently defunded its Digital Designer virtual building program.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. ” They Develop a Road Map Before Disruption Takes Hold. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Handoffs for the Long Term

Harvard Business

Despite the development of numerous techniques and tools to structure patient handoffs and improve the transfer of communication, we haven’t seen much improvement in reducing medical errors. During this stage, Margaret also worked with staff to develop a quality improvement plan. Adopting a more systematic process.