Harvard Business
JUNE 7, 2018
Glasshouse Images/Getty Images. Poor pricing practices are insidious — they damage a company’s economics but can go unnoticed for years. Consider the case of a major industrial goods manufacturer that was struggling with low profit margins, relative both to competitors and to its own historical performance. It traced much of the cause to a mismatch between its sales incentives and pricing strategy.
Gina Abudi
JUNE 7, 2018
Too often individual contributors are promoted into supervisory roles with no prior experience managing others. And, sometimes, limited experience collaborating with others or working as part of a team on an initiative. This only sets them up for excessive stress, frustration and potential failure in their new role managing others. It may risks setting up [.].
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Clarity Consultants
JUNE 7, 2018
When your trainees are stuck viewing outdated learning content and formats, their experience as a consumer has conditioned them to expect more from that experience. Here is a look at the hidden dangers of ignoring that digital conditioning and not meeting expectations of your trainees. The post The Hidden Dangers of Ignoring Your Trainees’ Digital Conditioning appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Learning and Development.
Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 7, 2018
Imagine a circle of ten kids, passing the ball from one to another. What you do when you don't have the ball doesn't have much impact on how fast the ball moves around. But during the moments when the ball is yours, every second you spend is a second added to the route. That route is called the critical path. It's the irreducible schedule, the sum total of all the required steps.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 7, 2018
Bloomberg/Contributor/Getty Images. Earlier this spring, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos released his annual letter to shareholders. Like every shareholders letter Bezos has written since his company went public in 1997, this year’s version was brilliant, entertaining, and filled with big strategic insights and gritty management takeaways. To my eyes, though, it was also missing something — an omission that became even more glaring a week or so later.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 7, 2018
Bloomberg/Contributor/Getty Images. An estimated 1,833 lives were lost in 2005 in Hurricane Katrina , one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history. The federal government’s lack of preparedness and inadequate response to Katrina met with widespread criticism, and the need for a more robust system to respond to natural catastrophes emerged as one of the key lessons from the 2005 storm.
Harvard Business
JUNE 7, 2018
Caiaimage/Chris Ryan/Getty Images. Far too many great ideas for solving pressing social problems are not being applied at the scale they deserve, because thousands of nonprofit organizations are teetering on the brink of collapse. Of the 300,000 nonprofits in the United States, two-thirds have an annual budget of $500,000 or below, which does not allow them to expand their operations or scale their solutions.
Harvard Business
JUNE 7, 2018
frank mckenna/unsplash. U.S. trade policy is roiling markets. At the end of March, the U.S. stock market tumbled 700 points in a single day on news that President Trump would impose tariffs on Chinese exports. A degree of volatility and uncertainty has continued since then as the tariffs continue to make news. Canada, China, Europe, India, and Mexico are all preparing to retaliate.
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