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AI-Powered Clean Tech: Transforming Business Operations

Tom Spencer

Consulting firms can also develop a roadmap to outline the steps required for successful integration, including technology acquisition, data collection and analysis, and training of personnel. After studying business administration in Cologne, he completed the CEMS Master in International Management in Lisbon.

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Leadership Pressure is a Privilege

Organizational Talent Consulting

Theodore Roosevelt Reason #1: Pressure Accelerates Change One reason to embrace pressure is that pressure accelerates change, and leadership is about change. In the book Leading Change, renowned change management thought leader John Kotter identified that overcoming complacency to change requires a sense of urgency.

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13 Difficulties that Define a Manager’s Destiny

Rick Conlow

At one company it took 2 1/2 hours with twenty-one managers to clarify the Senior VP’s stated and written goal. Equally problematic is the lack of training and coaching so the team is competent and committed enough to give their best while striving to achieve the goals. Most of the time the managers say, “Nothing, yet.”

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13 Difficulties that Define a Manager’s Destiny

Rick Conlow

At one company it took 2 1/2 hours with twenty-one managers to clarify the Senior VP’s stated and written goal. Equally problematic is the lack of training and coaching so the team is competent and committed enough to give their best while striving to achieve the goals. Most of the time the managers say, “Nothing, yet.”

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What Happens When Data Scientists and Designers Work Together

Harvard Business

In the 18 months since relaunching their service, Rise Science has signed up over 15 of the most elite pro and collegiate sports teams, as well as ​several companies who hope to improve employee performance and wellbeing through better sleep habits. Rise Science’s app, before (left) and after (right) user research-informed design.

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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business

Capturing the digital opportunity is becoming even more of a team sport. A major train operator, for example, designed an advanced analytics solution in order to better understand the failure behavior of a major battery pack in one of its train models.

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What Breaking the 4-Minute Mile Taught Us About the Limits of Conventional Thinking

Harvard Business

The British press “constantly ran stories criticizing his ‘lone wolf’ approach,” Bryant notes, and urged him to adopt a more conventional regimen of training and coaching. The experts believed they knew the precise conditions under which the mark would fall.