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How to Become a Master of Disaster

Strategy+Business

The more complex and tightly coupled the system, say Meltdown authors Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, the more urgent the need to manage the risk of disaster.

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Misunderstanding the free market

Seth Godin Blog

Ice skating requires two things: smooth ice and gravity. Without a reliable foundation, you can't move forward. And without the constraints and boundaries put on us by gravity, you can't move at all. The free market, the holy grail of some capitalists, is similar. In a completely unbounded environment, markets can't develop, investments won't get made, nothing moves forward.

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Tour in the Sewer: Creating Significant Emotional Experiences

Confessions of a Consultant

Rat-tling Home the Message! We were running a training program in Antwerp with an engineering crew from a large pharmaceutical company. The program covered leadership, emotional intelligence, team building and personal branding. Additional key strands involved solving 2 key business challenges, personal coaching and career insights from the company’s own leaders.

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Rethinking graduation (off topic)

Seth Godin Blog

It's that time of year again. If you hear "Pomp & Circumstance" playing, you know you're in the right place, and you also know you're about to witness a pre-electrification (never mind pre-digital) event. Who's it for? What's it for? I fear that tradition has gotten in the way of design thinking. When we ask those two questions, great opportunities arrive.

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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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Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018

LSA Global

Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018. These Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018 are based on the employee engagement surveys from nearly 50 Best Places to Work contests, this comprehensive report is the one and only of its kind, examining employee engagement and culture trends at America’s top workplaces. This year’s study aggregates responses from more than 600,000 employees from 8,000+ organizations across America.

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How to Become a Master of Disaster

Strategy+Business

The more complex and tightly coupled the system, say Meltdown authors Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, the more urgent the need to manage the risk of disaster.

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Misunderstanding the free market

Seth Godin Blog

Ice skating requires two things: smooth ice and gravity. Without a reliable foundation, you can't move forward. And without the constraints and boundaries put on us by gravity, you can't move at all. The free market, the holy grail of some capitalists, is similar. In a completely unbounded environment, markets can't develop, investments won't get made, nothing moves forward.

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What Do Your Strengths Need to Thrive and to Survive? (podcast)

Leadership Vision Consulting

On this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, Brian Schubring, our founder and president talks about how to understand what our Strengths need to thrive and what they need to survive. We have found that you’ve reached a deeper level of awareness when you’re able to articulate exactly what your Strengths need in both of these situations. Thriving and surviving may seem like contradictory or even opposite states of being, but actually, we’ve found them to be more similar than different.

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To Be Promotable, You Need to Manage Up

Peter Stark

Have you ever been passed over for a promotion and wondered, how did that happen? Or wondered, how did that person get promoted or get the job? All of these are great questions. There is a good chance the person who received the job or was promoted was more effective at building a strong relationship with the person responsible for making the decision.

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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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The Weekly Independent: June 4, 2018

MBO Partners

News and notes for independent professionals and their clients. This is the June 4, 2018 edition.

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