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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. In past years leadership development has always been treated as a discretionary expense or even a luxury, and therefore something that could be pared down or eliminated in hard economic times. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

We collaborated with other consulting firms to work with a global client that had intense competition and needed significant performance improvement. Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. This cost the company significant business.

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Revolutionize Your Life and Business with ChatGPT

Chad Barr

As the power and importance of AI and ChatGPT-4 continues to improve and grow exponentially, its transformative impact on our life and business cannot be underestimated. It helps businesses streamline their processes, improve customer experiences, and reveal hidden insights.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

Of course, the President preached teamwork, but all the VPs existed in silos and worked to protect their own narrow confines. Early in my career, I had a process improvement project that included service managers from various locations. .” This is the blame game and shows lack of ownership. It became a vicious cycle. .”

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Driving Digital Transformation in Aerospace & Defense: Recent Technology Trends

Epicflow

The technology allows A&D organizations to transform their manufacturing processes, improve safety, optimize customer service, system management, and, of course, transform military operations. Let’s take a look at some last year’s developments regarding AI applications in aerospace and defense. .

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“Social Media Crisis” and Other Buzzwords that Need to Go

Melissa Agnes

And yes, there are crises that develop and play out on social, but the fact of the matter is that a crisis is never purely contained to social. Anyone who takes my graduate Strategic Communications course learns that leverage, one of the most overused words in Corporate America , is banned from use in all class projects.

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4-Step Checklist to Better Change Management

LSA Global

Step-by-step, it will lead you through the change process, improve your chances of beating the odds, and guide you toward success. #1. You will need processes, practices and systems in place to support the change process before you begin. Be ready and open to course correct as lessons are learned. The Bottom Line.