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Tolerating the Truth

CaseInterview.com

You have an enormous advantage in life when you have the capacity to tolerate the truth. Anyone can tolerate the truth when it’s positive and favorable. It’s much more difficult when the truth isn’t what you want to hear. Just because you wish something wasn’t true doesn’t make it any less valid. For example, it’s difficult to tolerate the truth that your skills just aren’t good enough (yet) to tackle a particular project.

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Learning-Credibility Tension

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: New client? You’re facing learning-credibility tension. You need to juggle the need to know more about the context with the all-important need to look credible. You’re trying to minimise three types of threats: a competence threat, a productivity threat and an acceptance threat. This HBR article is worth a read. It suggests 4 things consultants […].

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How Women Can Get What They Want in a Negotiation

Harvard Business

VANDAL Photography/Getty Images. Tara, an MD/PhD who works for a large public university, contacted one of us (Suzanne) a few weeks after participating in a negotiation workshop she ran, wanting to share some positive news about successfully negotiating an 11% pay increase. A faculty member for six years, she had come to learn that she was not only underpaid but also had a higher teaching and clinic load than others in her group.

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Humanising the workplace

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: [link] leah weiss Kelly sits down with Stanford University professor Leah Weiss whose [link] leah weiss Kelly sits down with Stanford University professor Leah Weiss whose new book How We Work looks at ways in which we can re-humanize the workplace. [link] book How We Work looks at ways in which we can re-humanize the […].

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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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How to define and remove outliers in a data?

Consulthon

Hi All, Currently, I am analysing cases and the time spent on each one. I know what is an acceptable time, but I am experiencing a difficulty to decide what is are the outliers in the range of dat.

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6 Tips for New Managers to be More Open to Feedback

LSA Global

There’s a Need for New Managers to be More Open to Feedback? Few people seek out and enjoy receiving negative feedback from their coworkers. We all want to hear the positive – how great we are at what we do. But think of it differently. Wouldn’t you like to get better at your job? Wouldn’t you like your new managers to be more open to feedback even if the feedback points out what is not working well?

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4 Industries Leveraging Robotics & Automation For Future of Work

Cheryl Cran

Right now, if your business or role involves repetitive tasks it is likely that you have already or will be impacted by robotics and automation. It is irrefutable that we need to expand our perspective to seeing that robots, AI and automation are infiltrating all industries and everyday life. Let’s look at robotics/automation first and […]. The post 4 Industries Leveraging Robotics & Automation For Future of Work appeared first on NextMapping.

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Worker Representation on Boards Won’t Work Without Trust

Harvard Business

CSA Images/Getty Images. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed a novel way to reform corporate governance. It would require companies with more than $1 billion in revenue to get a corporate charter from the federal government (rather than from an individual state), which in turn would require a commitment to a broad range of stakeholders, including not just shareholders but also employees and the communities in which the businesses operate.

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Ringing vs wringing

Seth Godin Blog

Ringing is resonant. A small force causes sympathetic vibrations, and magic happens. Wringing requires significant effort and can even destroy the object it is applied to. When you ring a bell for your clients, you’ve delivered with care and empathy. But when you seek to wring every dollar out of a transaction, you’ve probably engaged for the last time.

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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