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Consulting Website Design 008: Addition By Subtraction [VIDEO]

Tsavo Neal

In this episode, you’ll learn how to improve your website’s design by taking away elements. The websites featured in this episode are Propeller Consulting’s “What We Do” page , and Winton Gibbon’s “What I Do” page. [ Slides ] Transcript. Welcome to Consulting Website Design 008: Addition By Subtraction.

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Building a Resilience Advantage in Healthcare

Strategy+Business

Consolidation in the healthcare industry highlights the ways companies continue to place large bets even amid the continual disruption and uncertainty surrounding the insurance market. Insurers who wish to thrive in the emerging era must understanding future money flows and sources of value, which include creating medical value, winning consumer trust, and enabling new business models.

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Different people hear differently

Seth Godin Blog

What you say is not nearly as important as what we hear. Which means that the words matter, and so does the way we say them. And how we say them. And what we do after we say them. It takes two to be understood. Not just speaking clearly, but speaking in a way that you can be understood. Empathy is not sufficient. Compassion is more useful, because it's possible to talk to someone who is experiencing something that you've never experienced.

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Preconceived Notions Are Dangerous

Martinka Consulting

Regarding my upcoming book, Company Growth by Acquisition Makes Dollars & Sense, a good friend asked me why I bothered having a print edition, implying most book sales are now electronic. I answered it was because most of the sales for my two existing books are the print versions. And, according to the Association of American Publishers, as recently noted in the Wall Street Journal, last year printed book sales grew by 4.5% while e-book sales declined by 17%.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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3 Ways Employee Engagement and Gratitude Overlap

LSA Global

Are Employee Engagement and Gratitude Correlated? The subject of gratitude seems to growing in popularity. Writers in The New York Times, Scientific American, and Time magazine describe how gratitude positively affects our happiness and health. Even Oprah Winfrey, talks about how we should all promote an “attitude of gratitude.”. What is New About Employee Engagement and Gratitude.

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7 Ways To Cut Expenses

MBO Partners

Trim your budget for the New Year with these simple tricks.

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Too Many Americans Suffer from Financial Instability. Their Employers Can Help Fix It

Harvard Business

PM Images/Getty Images. If it was ever true that “a rising tide lifts all boats” in an economic sense, it is clearly not true in modern America. Since 1980 half of Americans have been stuck in place—their wages in real terms haven’t budged—while the top 20% have seen large gains. Rising inequality of income and of wealth undermines much of the narrative about opportunity in America—that it’s a country where anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstra

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Respect and Romance in Organizations, Part 5

Johanna Rothman

It took me a couple of days reviewing these posts to realize I’d missed one of the biggest problems in organizations especially when it comes to human interactions: romance. When I was single, I did date people who were my peers in my organizations. I still see office-romance occur with a fair amount of frequency. When the two people in question are peers, it’s often easier to manage a couple or a breakup, for the people and the management.

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The Legal Risks of Monitoring Employees Online

Harvard Business

David Soanes/Getty Images. Perhaps the most well-known data heist perpetrated by an “insider” was Edward Snowden’s appropriation and disclosure of data from the National Security Agency. The Snowden case demonstrated the cost of focusing on external threats to the exclusion of internal bad actors. In the aftermath, companies are increasingly adopting sophisticated technologies that can help prevent the intentional or inadvertent export of corporate IP and other sensitive and pr

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Where Employee Surveys on Burnout and Engagement Go Wrong

Harvard Business

Amy DeVoogd/Getty Images. To tackle employee burnout, companies need to assess just how burned out their staff members are—and why. Many organizations conduct surveys to gain this sort of insight, but serious flaws in how those surveys are designed often lead to bad results. Well-intentioned leaders, following an inaccurate roadmap of where the problems lie, end up wasting time, energy, and resources on the wrong things.

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