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Netflix Brings Lean Thinking to Board Meetings

Markovitz Consulting

I doubt Netflix was thinking how Jim Womack would apply lean to their board meetings. But in a new article , the Harvard Business Review describes how the company reinvented board meetings by creating a better way to share information with its board of directors. Senior management responds to the questions prior to the meeting.

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Four Classroom Teaching Differentiators in a World of TikTok and Other Digital Innovations

Steve Shu Consulting

I am all for further development of those types of resources and educational models, recognizing their benefits, challenges, and limitations. Where students are receptive, I also try to make some time for students to meet me and one another outside of the classroom (e.g., meeting for coffee, drinks, breakfast, potluck dinner).

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Problem Framing Is More Consequential Than You Might Think.

Markovitz Consulting

This is one of the exercises I’ve used with a corporate client that’s enrolled my Conclusion Trap workshop. As my students discovered (and you can see from the example above), the phrasing of the problem has enormous consequences for the kind of countermeasures you develop. The countermeasures are radically different.

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5 Insider Tips to Develop Top Talent

LSA Global

While there are many proven tips to develop top talent, it seems that talent management often becomes too complicated. Simply put, the purpose of talent management is to attract, develop, engage, and retain the top talent that leads to individual, team, and organizational success. 5 Insider Tips to Develop Top Talent.

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Managing your Energy, Time, and Tasks to have a Complete Day

Tom Spencer

Attending meetings. Attending meetings. The other most common activity is attending meetings, which generally fall into a few categories: planning, updates, discussion, or making decisions. Regardless of the meeting, there should always be an agenda to keep people on track. Manage your tasks. Networking. Networking.

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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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The Right Questions Can Reveal the Right Problems

Harmonious Workplaces

In the dynamic fields of organizational development (OD) and change management (OCM), a consultant’s ability to ask the right questions plays as crucial a role as having the right answers. Great consultants tend to leverage listening and empathy as pathways to understanding, diagnosis, and solution development.