David A Fields
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Whether your consulting firm employs 100, 10 or 1 consultant, your firm has a culture. That culture is a clockwork of choices that determine your firm’s long-term success and how rewarding it is for you to lead the practice. If you don’t actively craft your consulting firm’s culture, you still have one.
Melissa Agnes
OCTOBER 2, 2018
A culture of compassion requires consciousness. How compassionately conscious is your brand? You can also listen to this episode on iTunes , Spotify , and Stitcher , and YouTube. Nearly ten years after Dave Carroll’s United Breaks Guitars video series went viral and helped change the landscape of issue and crisis management for brands, Dave joins the Invincible Brand Podcast to discuss the impact of compassion on brands and on an organization’s issue management, crisis management, cu
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Yongyuan Dai/Getty Images. Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods was met with a lot of fanfare. The deal would allow Amazon to grow beyond e-commerce and sell groceries in hundreds of stores while collecting significant shopper data. Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!) and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Women graduate college at higher rates than men and make up nearly half of the workforce, but are not en route to the C-suite in equal numbers. Here are four concrete actions companies can take to redress the balance: increase the pipeline in middle and senior management roles, improve the receptiveness of organizations toward women leaders, develop creative solutions to workday designs that hold women back, and move more women into general management and P&L roles.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 2, 2018
HBR Staff. The past year has served as a wake-up call for many Facebook users. Between the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony and the advent of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we have fresh insight into how much Facebook knows about us—knowledge that has inspired many people to re-think what they share on Facebook, how they manage their Facebook settings, or even whether they want to use social media at all.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Bill Kerr, a professor at Harvard Business School, studies the increasing importance of talent clusters in our age of rapid technological advances. He argues that while talent and industries have always had a tendency to cluster, today’s trend towards San Francisco, Boston, London and a handful of other cities is different. Companies need to react and tap into those talent pools, but moving the company to one isn’t always an option.
LSA Global
OCTOBER 2, 2018
The Ability to Motivate Employees When Strategy Shifts Matters. There are all kinds of internal and external reasons to purposefully shift your strategy. But they all involve reacting to a major change in your business typically driven by new leaders, new technologies, new markets, new competitors or new disruptions. Regardless of the cause, the best leaders know how to motivate employees when strategy shifts occur.
MBO Partners
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Big clients can provide better opportunities to land new and future work, name credibility, and a bigger paycheck. Keep these three benefits in mind when considering working with a large enterprise.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Alice Mollon/Getty Images. Precision cancer medicine — sequencing a patient’s DNA in order to customize cancer treatments — shows promise, but is very much in its infancy. It’s still not nearly precise enough to launch a winning battle against many forms of cancer. To dramatically advance in this field, clinicians, medical researchers, and computer scientists must substantially deepen their collaboration.
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Seth Godin Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Everyone hated the traveling salesman. That’s because he came to town, said whatever it took to make the sale, and then left. In 1900, Sears saw a market opportunity. Their catalog had more variety, sure, but what it really offered was a guarantee. Tens of thousands of people even bought a house from the Sears catalog. They become the twentieth century’s biggest retailer because the company understood the lifetime value of trust—difficult to earn, but worth it.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Shana Novak/Getty Images. Companies have been trying to adopt customer centricity for nearly 20 years now. But the CMO Council reports that “only 14 percent of marketers say that customer centricity is a hallmark of their companies, and only 11 percent believe their customers would agree with that characterization.” Why do so many companies struggle to get customer centricity right?
Seth Godin Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Everyone hated the traveling salesman. That’s because he came to town, said whatever it took to make the sale, and then left. In 1900, Sears saw a market opportunity. Their catalog had more variety, sure, but what it really offered was a guarantee. Tens of thousands of people even bought a house from the Sears catalog. They become the twentieth century’s biggest retailer because the company understood the lifetime value of trust—difficult to earn, but worth it.
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