Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Marina Nasr / EyeEm/Getty Images. Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Organizations need to be continually on the lookout for new market developments and competitive threats, identifying essential experts and nimbly forming and disbanding teams to help tackle those issues quickly.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

anbileru adaleru/noun project. Compassion has become increasingly recognized as a foundational aspect of leadership. One study from 2012 found that compassionate leaders appear stronger and have more-engaged followers. Other studies have found that organizations with more-compassionate leaders have better collaboration , lower turnover, and employees who are more trusting, more connected to each other, and more committed to the company.

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David A Fields

MAY 15, 2018

Imagine you’re in court. As the prosecutor states his case, you nervously whisper to your defense attorney, “Should I just tell them…” “No,” your counsel quickly interrupts you. “Don’t say anything!” Your advocate’s advice is exactly right for the courtroom. It’s absolutely wrong for the boardroom.

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Henry DeVries

MAY 15, 2018

“Happy, meaningful retirements don’t just happen,” says career counselor Robin Ryan. “You need to develop and implement a plan that allows you to enjoy life to its fullest.

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MAY 15, 2018

Before acquiring a tech firm, traditional companies need to consider the unique characteristics and challenges of such a deal. This will require them to think strategically about their own digital agenda and how best to achieve it; to consider the various factors that can influence the terms of a deal, including cyber-attacks; and to be mindful of the skills and mind-sets that the digital firm's technologists and leaders may bring to their new organization.

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Management Consulting Prep

MAY 15, 2018

Which one is the best for you? The ranking of the top world consulting firms in the top three positions has rarely changed since the first time the list was. The post Big Three Consulting Firms| McKinsey, BCG and Bain (MBB) appeared first on Management Consulting Prep.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Jennifer Petriglieri, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, asks company leaders to consider whether they really need to relocate their high-potential employees or make them travel so much. She says moving around is particularly hard on dual-career couples. And if workers can’t set boundaries around mobility and flexibility, she argues, firms lose out on talent.

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Strategy+Business

MAY 15, 2018

Before acquiring a tech firm, traditional companies need to consider the unique characteristics and challenges of such a deal. This will require them to think strategically about their own digital agenda and how best to achieve it; to consider the various factors that can influence the terms of a deal, including cyber-attacks; and to be mindful of the skills and mind-sets that the digital firm's technologists and leaders may bring to their new organization.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Marie LaFauci/Getty Images. The employment rate gap between black Americans and white Americans has remained persistently high over the past 30 years. Looking at 2014 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics , white Americans were 10% more likely to be employed than African-Americans were. A great deal of research — using methodologies such as resume studies and other models — has found that employer discrimination and prejudice plays a large role in creating this gap.

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MAY 15, 2018

Would You Like to Become a More Effective Leader? How many books do you think have been written on the topic of how to become a more effective leader? Hundreds? Thousands? Not to mention all the articles. A quick Google search on books on leadership came up with over 20 million results! There are all sorts of opinions and theories about what it takes to become a more effective leader, but there are a few leadership development fundamentals that are common to all. 4 Leadership Principles to B

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Ilka & Franz/Getty Images. Here’s a truth: many in the marketing industry today don’t really understand brands. They may think that “brand” and “customer experience” are different. But that kind of brand is a layer of communications. That is the stuff of blowhard manifestos — too high-minded to sell anything, and too lofty to be useful.

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MBO Partners

MAY 15, 2018

Find success as an entrepreneur or independent professional by making these five habits part of your everyday life.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 15, 2018

There's a hierarchy in the adoption of new techniques and approaches, particularly in the b2b setting: You were right all along: The thing you were waiting for is here. All of the cool kids are using this now: Take a look at the folks who are already on board. That topic you didn't care about so much--you need to care about it now. Well, you were wrong, but don't worry about it, here's some cover: I know you said that this would never work, but it's working.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Microprocessor (CPU) with human brain. By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers the prospect of a frictionless existence, making us more efficient, helping us prevent mistakes, spotting the onset of potential problems before they become problems, and enabling us to spend more time on the things that really matter to us.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Victoria Jones – PA Images / Contributor/Getty Images. The UK will exit the European Union on March 29, 2019, and many companies are struggling to prepare for how it will change doing business there. Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. At the recent Brexit Workshop we held for clients — in this case, 19 UK heads of some of the world’s largest multinational firms — 10 of them had not started or had only just begun planning

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