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Making the Time to Build Your Side Hustle

Harvard Business

Fifty percent of Gen Zs want to ditch the corporate world to become their own boss. However, this can be challenging when you lack the funds and flexibility to leave your day job. As a result, many ambitious young people begin by balancing full-time work with a side hustle — but managing both commitments can be challenging. You might feel drained after work or find it difficult to be consistent.

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The Evolution of Management Consulting in the Digital Age

Effective Managers

The Evolution of Management Consulting in the Digital Age Exploring How Digital Transformation Is Reshaping Management Consulting Practices Management consulting has always been a dynamic field, adapting to changes in business practices, economic conditions, and technological advancements. The digital age, marked by rapid technological innovation, has brought about significant transformations in this sector.

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Hybrid Work Has Changed Meetings Forever

Harvard Business

More than four years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, what do we know about how meetings have (or haven’t) gotten back to “normal,” particularly amid calls back to the office? An analysis of 40 million virtual meetings from 11 organizations suggests that some habits, like using virtual meeting options even when in the office, are sticking. Further, data shows that meeting participation and camera usage correlates with retention.

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The Evolution of Management Consulting in the Digital Age

Effective Managers

The Evolution of Management Consulting in the Digital Age Exploring How Digital Transformation Is Reshaping Management Consulting Practices Management consulting has always been a dynamic field, adapting to changes in business practices, economic conditions, and technological advancements. The digital age, marked by rapid technological innovation, has brought about significant transformations in this sector.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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How Retailers Became Ad Platforms

Harvard Business

Major retailers are today, most notably Amazon, are creating and operating their own advertising platforms — and they’re making millions doing it. McKinsey estimates that by 2026, retail media will add $1.3 trillion to enterprise values in the U.S. alone, with profit margins between 50% and 70%. In this article, the authors introduce readers to the main kinds of retail media, discuss three strategic challenges that they present, and provide guidance for effectively managing those challenges.

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How to Manage: Selling Your Ideas to Leadership

Harvard Business

Don’t let the opportunity you’ve identified come to nothing.

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The intentional stance

Seth Godin Blog

Dan Dennett explained that it began as a survival mechanism. It’s important to predict how someone else is going to behave. That tiger might be a threat, that person from the next village might have something to offer. If we simply wait and see, we might encounter an unwelcome or even fatal surprise. The shortcut that the intentional stance offers us is, “if I were them, I might have this in mind.” Assuming intent doesn’t always work, but it works often enough that all hu

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How to Increase the ROI of Sales Training

LSA Global

How to Increase the ROI of Sales Training Even though $20 billion is spent on business sales training per year, more than a third of sales leaders admit that they do not have a clear idea of what measurable return they are looking for on sales training. That is a costly mistake if you want to increase the ROI of sales training. While investing in solution selling training skills to boost sales performance makes sense, our training measurement research found that only 1-in-5 sales reps change th

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LSA GLOBAL Delivers Supervisory Skills Training for Biotech

LSA Global

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a customized action learning leadership development program focused on supervisory skills training for Biotech supervisors and people managers.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.