Fri.Jun 15, 2018

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Why Workplaces Need to Be Fairer to Working Dads

Harvard Business

Artiga Photo/Getty Images. Each year around Father’s Day, some businesses take a moment to express well wishes for the working dads among the staff. Unfortunately, that sensibility is too often short-lived. Seventy-three percent of U.S. working fathers say there is little workplace support for fathers, according to a new survey from Promundo and Dove Men+Care.

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Better and different

Seth Godin Blog

Digital analogs only work when they’re better and different, not when they’re almost the same. Chat isn’t the same as chatting. Email isn’t a replacement for mail. Video conferencing isn’t just like being in a real conference… There’s still plenty of room for digital innovations to impact our world. But they won’t simply be a replacement for what we have now.

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How To Win Business Awards

Henry DeVries

Becoming award-winning can certainly help in your pursuit to attract high-paying clients. Awards bring credibility. An award is a third-party endorsement. However, before adding award-winning to your bio, there is some work to do.

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What to Do When Your Boss Won?t Advocate for You

Harvard Business

baranozdemir/Getty Images. Having a great boss is a potentially life-changing gift. On the other hand, many of us know firsthand that having a bad boss can cause a lot of drama, headaches, and stress. While it’s easy to love the great bosses and flee the bad ones, there’s one kind of boss that’s much less straightforward to navigate: the boss who doesn’t advocate for you.

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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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The Death of Supply Chain Management

Harvard Business

Alistair Berg/Getty Images. The supply chain is the heart of a company’s operations. To make the best decisions, managers need access to real-time data about their supply chain, but the limitations of legacy technologies can thwart the goal of end-to-end transparency. However, those days may soon be behind us. New digital technologies that have the potential to take over supply chain management entirely are disrupting traditional ways of working.

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3 Ways to Identify Cultural Differences on a Global Team

Harvard Business

Rolfo Brenner/EyeEm/Getty Images. In almost any business these days, you are guaranteed to interact with people whose cultural background is quite different from your own. In a global organization, you may have colleagues that come from a different country. You may partner with organizations whose employees come from another part of the country. There may also be cultural differences between you and some of the customers and clients you serve.

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In Interviews, Female CEOs Say They Don?t Expect Much Support ? at Home or at Work

Harvard Business

Hero Images/Getty Images. Women who have already made it to the top say that the only person who will get you there is yourself. While many researchers and observers have examined the structural and other barriers that limit women’s progress through the ranks, we wanted to explore a different question: how have the few women who have made it to the very top overcome those barriers?