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How to Tell an Employee They Didn’t Get a Promotion

Harvard Business

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Deliver the news in a timely fashion. Case Study #1: Be honest and direct — and don’t make any promises.

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How to Actually Put Your Data Analysis to Good Use

Harvard Business

Data and analytics professionals seem to be at the center of the next big race for talent. By 2020, IBM expects broader demand for data and analytics talent to reach 2.7 What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. Tie analytics to the commercial and operational heart of your organization.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The outcomes of this exercise are shown in the exhibits below.