Tue.Oct 18, 2022

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Quitting for 2 Months Made My Consulting Firm Millions. Here’s Why.

David A Fields

Should you take more time off from your consulting firm? Let’s examine a case study. Quite a few years ago, I decided to take a month off from my consulting practice—standard fare for Europeans but basically unheard of in the U.S. Nine months later I took another full month off from the business. No client … Continued. The post Quitting for 2 Months Made My Consulting Firm Millions.

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Yes, All Organizations Have A Culture But Not Necessarily A Good One

Simon Associates

Last week I wrote a blog entitled Nothing Proves The Importance Of Culture Than When Two Of Them Collide. It was all about my experiences in making a big acquisition and then realizing that words have different meanings to different people, especially when applied to a company’s culture. In this blog I am going to describe another “culture” experience.

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Startups, Don’t Pin Your Hopes on VC Dry Powder

Harvard Business

Even with $290 billion in committed capital, venture capitalists may slow their pace of investing — and focus on the companies they’ve already backed.

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How to Help Build Employee Resilience

LSA Global

Employee Resilience Matters In our leadership action learning programs , we define employee resilience as the ability to respond in a healthy way to pressure, to deal with difficult situations, and to overcome challenges. We know from change management simulation data that employee resilience is important. Employees with higher levels of resilience report greater job satisfaction, higher employee engagement , and a greater sense of control over their life.

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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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Chewy.com’s Make-or-Break Logistics Dilemma

Harvard Business

Should the online pet products retailer take its e-commerce fulfillment in house, despite the risks?

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We Need a Global System for Testing and Approving Cancer Treatments

Harvard Business

A standardized international process could reduce cancer deaths by 10–20%, saving millions of lives.

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Have to Lay People Off? Practice Congruence and First Choose What Not to Do

Johanna Rothman

Your company is planning a layoff, and you're one of the managers who has to decide and deliver the bad news. What do you say? What do you do? Almost everyone I know who has to do the laying-off feels terrible about that. But you can create a congruent environment and make it possible for the remaining people to succeed. And for the people who have to go still feel okay about your company.

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NASA’s Science Head on Leading Space Missions with Risk of Spectacular Failure

Harvard Business

A conversation with Thomas Zurbuchen on managing complexity, expert teams, and big budgets.

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How a Passwordless Environment is More Secure

Kraft Kennedy

Here’s a radical idea: What if users didn’t need to know their passwords? Kraft Kennedy is in the process of a watershed transition to a passwordless environment. Users still log into remote access, laptops, and web applications, but will no longer need to know their account password. In additon to increasing efficiency, a passwordless enviroment represents a huge leap forward in our security.

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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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4 Ways to Combat Imposter Syndrome on Your Team

Harvard Business

Managers often fail to recognize the problem until it’s too late.

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Research: The Complicated Role of Hope in the Workplace

Harvard Business

How leaders can leverage the power of hope — while avoiding its pitfalls.