Fri.Oct 12, 2018

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Starting a Product Organization Transformation, Part 6

Johanna Rothman

I’ve been thinking about my clients who’ve had success moving from a project-based/resource-efficiency organization to a product-based/flow efficiency organization. They had these things in common: A senior person made it safe for the managers to create experiments. They created very small experiments (either managers or teams, or together).

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The Best Business Sale Transactions are Facilitated in an Environment of Full Disclosure

Martinka Consulting

Guest post from Gregory Kovsky with IBA in Bellevue, WA. Due diligence is a process that benefits both sides in a business sale transaction. For the buyer, it is an investigative process used to verify the information employed to make the decision to negotiate a letter of intent to purchase the business. If the information is not verified, the buyer should either exit from negotiations or attempt to renegotiate the terms of the transaction.

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Stop Complaining About Your Colleagues Behind Their Backs

Harvard Business

ICHIRO/Getty Images. In my coaching work with leaders and teams, I often ask my clients whether they engage in workplace gossip. More often than not, they respond, “of course not!” with a look on their faces that indicates that they are insulted to have been asked such a question. But when I ask them whether they have ever participated in a “confirmation expedition” — whereby they 1) ask a colleague to confirm their own negative or challenging experience with a thir

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Useful constructs

Seth Godin Blog

We find knowledge (and express it) by dividing the world into grids and segments, and explaining how this organization works. The periodic table is a useful construct. Useful constructs are replicable and they’re predictive. If I tell you the rules needed to organize the elements, you’ll come up with the same table as every other scientist.

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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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How Men Can Become Better Allies to Women

Harvard Business

HIROKAZU JIKE/Getty Images. Women’s conferences and employee resource groups (ERGs) are increasingly inviting men to attend. By creating events aimed at men, they hope to include men in discussions around gender equity in the workplace, and make organizational diversity efforts more successful. The evidence shows that when men are deliberately engaged in gender inclusion programs, 96% of organizations see progress — compared to only 30% of organizations where men are not engaged.

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How Peer Coaching Can Make Work Less Lonely

Harvard Business

Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images. A near-constant stream of business and scientific news reminds us that 50% of Americans are lonely. Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s powerful HBR article notes that half of CEOs suffer from loneliness. In addition to its personal toll, there is also an economic cost: workplace loneliness causes burnout , affects job satisfaction , and lowers both performance and retention.

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Startups Are More Vulnerable to Fraud. Here’s Why.

Harvard Business

Billy Currie Photography/Getty Images. In the wake of the Theranos scandal , some commentators have asked whether entrepreneurial companies are particularly inclined to deception and downright fraud. Startups are often focused on disrupting existing markets, occasionally bending the rules while doing so. Their employees need to overcome demanding challenges, including the need to draft processes and responsibilities from scratch.

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How to Decide Which Data Science Projects to Pursue

Harvard Business

DNY59/Getty Images. In 2018, every organization has a data strategy. But what makes a great one? We all know what failure looks like. Resources are invested, teams are formed, time goes by — but nothing comes of it. No one can necessarily say why; it’s always Someone Else’s Fault. It’s harder to tell the difference between a modest success and excellence.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business

Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images. Netflix’s global growth is a big factor in the company’s success. By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time.

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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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Helping Health Care Workers Avoid Burnout

Harvard Business

PhotoAlto/Michele Constantini/Getty Images. To make progress against knotty problems, break them down — dissect the causes and analyze their impact on different groups. That analysis inevitably leads away from dubious “magic bullet” solutions and toward multiple, targeted interventions that are more likely to be effective. The measures and data to perform this type of analysis are now becoming available for burnout, a problem that is growing in all sectors, but is particularly

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business

Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images. Netflix’s global growth is a big factor in the company’s success. It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time.