David A Fields
DECEMBER 12, 2017
We’re headed into a new year. Other than signing up for Gobs o’ Chocolate.com’s weekly delivery service, is there anything you can do to make the coming year far more successful than the one you’re wrapping up? Yes, my friend, there is.
Markovitz Consulting
DECEMBER 12, 2017
(This post originally appeared in Industry Week.) The new Proqis BTOES Insights report on operational excellence is out, and by a landslide margin (55% to 37%), the most critical challenge for respondents is “improving the company culture.” Anytime I read that culture is a stumbling block for companies pursuing continuous improvement, I go back to John Shook’s reflections on NUMMI.
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Johanna Rothman
DECEMBER 12, 2017
I started this series positing that respect is the cornerstone for how we might treat each other, to manage our interactions with success, especially in light of the #MeToo conversation. The series so far is: Organizations Are Not Families, Part 1. Why the metaphor of family-as-org demeans the people working there. Build Respect in Organizations, Not Families, Part 2 , had some ideas for building respect in terms of physical and psychological safety.
Clarity Consultants
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Having trouble getting your team to finish their trainings? You’re not alone. Many companies struggle with low completion rates when the training is not compulsory. Unless participants are in a classroom being directed to do so, it can be difficult to get participants to complete training in their own time, including on the job. Luckily there are several things you.
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Seth Godin Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Change, real change, is the result of focused persistence. It's easy to get a bunch of people sort of excited for a little while. The challenging part, and the reason that change doesn't happen as often as it should is that we get distracted. Today's urgent is more urgent than yesterday's important. The concept of breaking news and the crisis of the day proves my point.
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LSA Global
DECEMBER 12, 2017
High Sales Attrition Can Be a Major Problem. Losing any good employee is tough on the overall business and on the morale of those left behind…but when you lose a top solution seller, the consequences can be dramatic. Most studies peg average sales attrition between twenty-five and thirty percent split fairly evenly between voluntary and involuntary attrition.
MBO Partners
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Six personality traits that can help you find success as an independent consultant.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Rachel Botsman, the author of Who Can You Trust?, talks about how trust works, whether in relation to robots, companies, or other people. Technology, she says, speeds up the development of trust and can help us decide who to trust. But when it comes to making those decisions, we shouldn’t leave our devices to their own devices. Download this podcast.
Peter Stark
DECEMBER 12, 2017
The world is in desperate need of good leaders – leaders who base every action and decision on their values. Leadership is based on integrity, innovation and relationships. Your effectiveness as a leader is not based on your title or your technical expertise, but rather on your ability to uphold your values in the face of resistance, the capacity to look into the future and envision the products and services that will be needed in the years to come; and the skills to build strong relations
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Harvard Business
DECEMBER 12, 2017
akindo/Getty Images. Several months ago, a CEO I’ll call Elana, who is deaf, approached me for coaching. As we talked through her leadership skills and organizational political landscape, I quickly realized she was a fantastic listener. As a deaf person, Elana is more intentional about how she listens. In our meetings, Elana and I talk at a slower pace.
Ed Kless
DECEMBER 12, 2017
A friend recently asked me if time was a commodity. Here is my reply: Time is most definitely NOT a commodity as each second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, century, millennia (lifetime) can only be used once. It cannot be traded on a market. I have also heard the time is a resource, but that is not true either. Human effort, or more precisely, human knowledge is certainly a resource, but thinking of time as a resource isn’t quite right.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 12, 2017
michael suriano/unsplash. We have all heard about a gap when it comes to participation of women in the tech industry. Facebook, Google, and Apple have 17%, 19% and 23% women in their technology staffs, respectively. Multiple surveys, such as the “The Elephant in the Valley,” have documented systematic discrimination against women. And there’s a continuous barrage of news stories regarding the challenges that women face across a raft of iconic Silicon Valley firms.
Ed Kless
DECEMBER 12, 2017
A friend recently asked me if time was a commodity. Here is my reply: Time is most definitely NOT a commodity as each second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, century, millennia (lifetime) can only be used once. It cannot be traded on a market.I have also heard the time is a resource, but that is not true either. Human effort, or more precisely, human knowledge is certainly a resource, but thinking of time as a resource isn’t quite right.
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Harvard Business
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Tariq Dajani/Getty Images. Last year, the rather ironic rumor that Mark Zuckerberg covers his laptop camera and mic made the rounds. As Antonio Garcia Martinez points out in Chaos Monkeys , a provocative new book on the Facebook founder, “it’s not the rats who first abandon a sinking ship. It’s the crew members who know how to swim.” Or in the more famous words of Andrew Grove, a co-founder of Intel and Silicon Valley pioneer, “only the paranoid survive” In an
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm. For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. But now many of them have added something new to their arsenal: a mobile app called FarmLogs.
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