Harvard Business
JUNE 5, 2018
Nicholas Eveleigh/Getty Images. Employers today know that employees want flexibility, and many companies say they offer it. But there are lots of people out there who need flexibility but don’t have access to it. In our study on flexibility in the modern workforce, we set out to determine whether a gap exists between flexibility supply and demand.
Harvard Business
JUNE 5, 2018
HBR Staff/Clare Jackson/EyeEm/Getty Images. As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. Yet the best way to succeed, paradoxically, is to slow things down. Forces pushing in the other direction — toward hyperspeed — are powerful, of course.
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David A Fields
JUNE 5, 2018
Your clients send your consulting firm checks with plenty of digits. In return, you’re likely to conduct at least one meeting during which you present findings, results and/or recommendations.
IMC USA
JUNE 5, 2018
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. — June 5, 2018 — The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) announces the election of Juan A. Negroni as Chair of IMC USA and Michael Egan Ph.D. CMC and Kevin Berchelmann CMC as new Directors on the Board. Mr. Negroni is a resident of Weston, Connecticut, and is the first Cuban-born Chair in IMC’s 50-year history.
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Melissa Agnes
JUNE 5, 2018
Controversies are amongst the most difficult types of negative events to manage effectively. Why? Because they are emotionally charged situations that automatically segregate your audience. Not to mention that, due to their emotional relatability, they present a high-risk for fast escalation and virality. Furthermore, our current societal climate-with the Me Too and Time’s Up movements, our collective stance against racial discrimination, and more-controversial issues are an increasing hig
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Strategy+Business
JUNE 5, 2018
With roughly equal numbers of open jobs and unemployed people, companies are scrapping their talent plans and looking for workers wherever they can find them.
Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 5, 2018
“…but it might be for you.” That’s a home run. The stuff that’s for everyone, that’s easy to click, sniff, share, produce and learn–that stuff ends up having no character. It’s not memorable. Tater tots are for everyone. But would you miss them if they were gone? The goal isn’t to serve everyone.
Harvard Business
JUNE 5, 2018
Microzoa/Getty Images. As uncertainty is increasing and competition is becoming more fierce, executives need to have a broader understanding of competition itself in order to sustain an edge. Executives should be thinking about four different types of competition to maintain relevance in a changing environment, which originate from our work on competitiveness , strategy , and strategic change.
1 to 1
JUNE 5, 2018
Customer service is evolving, and while brands begin to implement the latest tools in automation and AI, genuine human values never go out of style. Zendesk’s latest event “The Future of Customer Experience” dove into the impact and need for authentic interactions as people and technology become interchangeably connected. Just last year a survey by Stackla found that an 86 percent of customers believe that authenticity is a key factor in deciding what brand gets their business.
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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
Harvard Business
JUNE 5, 2018
By Billy Bosworth, CEO, DataStax. Like many technology companies, DataStax competes with some of the world’s largest enterprises for top talent. We’ve come to realize that much of that talent is located outside of Silicon Valley, and even outside of the typical urban areas where a company might naturally look for new talent. Over the past seven years as CEO of DataStax, I’ve worked hard to understand the best ways to foster collaboration and leverage the talent of a distributed
MBO Partners
JUNE 5, 2018
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Harvard Business
JUNE 5, 2018
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and author James Patterson discuss their new novel, The President is Missing , in which a fictional president fights a cybersecurity attack amid intense political dysfunction. The coauthors share their lessons for collaborating across disparate skillsets — “clarity on the objective” and “don’t be afraid to admit what you don’t know.” They also talk about their research into cybersecurity threats and how realistic their
Harvard Business
JUNE 5, 2018
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images. In his classic book, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty , the political scientist A.O Hirschman argued that dissatisfaction with a product, service, relationship, or other outcome can give rise to two broad options: one can walk away (exit) or try to change the outcome by engagement (voice). In the labor market , exit and voice takes the form of either quitting a job or using channels — unions, internal dispute resolution, rights granted by government — to seek
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Harvard Business
JUNE 5, 2018
Bhandharangsri/Getty Images. Today we consume five times more information every day than we did in 1986, an incredible amount that’s equivalent to a 174 newspapers…a day. That probably includes a lot of Instagram posts, but it’s not only social media. The corporate e-learning space has grown by nine times over the last 16 years , such that almost 80% of U.S. companies offer online training for their employees, making more information accessible to them than ever before.
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