Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 24, 2018

With the rise of new technologies, the younger generations learn differently than older ones. Here are a few insights to consider. The post What’s Different About How Younger Workers Learn? appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Learning and Development.

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Photo by: Chad Barr. One of my favorite words is instantiation or to instantiate. Its meaning is to make the complex simple. My opinion is that we are all guilty (self included) at creating too much complexity in our life and business. Occam’s Razor theory suggests that of any set of explanations for an event occurring, it is most likely that the simplest one is the correct one.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Thomas J Peterson/Getty Images. There’s an old story about a tourist who asks a New Yorker how to get to the storied concert venue Carnegie Hall and is told, “Practice, practice, practice.” Obviously, this is good advice if you want to become a world-class performer — but it’s also good advice if you want to become a top-notch leader.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2018

By Jessica, with a tad bit of help from John. Page one of “ Buying a Business That Makes You Rich ” lists the top nine reasons audiences have shared on why they want to own a business. The reason we think is the most important is, “to have fun”. But over 98% of the time it’s not mentioned. According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal , “An Ignored Skill in Aging: Having Fun,” seniors have experts on almost all age-related issues except on having fun.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Here it is/Getty Images. You and about 20 of your coworkers are sitting around a crowded conference room table, discussing the details of some project. Some people are fighting for attention, trying to get a word in. Others won’t stop talking. Others have tuned the meeting out, retreating to their laptops or phones. At the end of the meeting, the only real outcome is the decision to schedule a follow-up meeting with a smaller group — a group that can actually make some decisions and

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Managing and Engaging High Performers. Motivation comes naturally to most high performers; after all, that’s often part of their natural make-up. High performers consistently exceed expectations not only because they have the capability, but also because they want to. With high performers reported to deliver 400% more productivity than average performers, you need to focus on effectively managing and engaging high performers to keep them motivated and engaged.

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Gina Abudi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Is it Positive or Negative? Conflict is a common occurrence within the workplace and in our personal lives. We often see conflict as a negative, but it doesn’t need to be! People are inherently different and conflict happens when those differences come to light. Conflicts enable for opportunities and viewing issues from a different perspective. [.].

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Ragnar Schmuck/Getty Images. Many managers of data science teams become managers because they were great individual contributors and not necessarily because they have the skills or training to lead a team. (I include myself in that group.) But management is a skill unto itself, and relying on your experience as a successful individual contributor is not enough to ensure that you are able to retain and develop great talent while delivering valuable learnings, products, and outcomes back to the or

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2018

There are two interesting ways to solve a problem, find a startup or even write a blog post. You can lump two previously disparate categories into one. Or you can split a previously coherent category into two or more pieces. Amazon is a lumper. They lumped 1,000 individual markets for bookstores into one giant one. They lumped dozens of different kinds of retail stores into one big one.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Laurence Dutton/Getty Images. In 1971, philosopher John Rawls proposed a thought experiment to understand the idea of fairness: the veil of ignorance. What if, he asked, we could erase our brains so we had no memory of who we were — our race, our income level, our profession, anything that may influence our opinion? Who would we protect, and who would we serve with our policies?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee discuss whether the “retailpocalypse” is real, try to figure out how companies are spending their Trump tax cuts, debate whether share buybacks are a good thing or a bad thing, and offer their picks for the week. Download this podcast. HBR Presents is a network of podcasts curated by HBR editors, bringing you the best business ideas from the leading minds in management.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images. Imagine if a single piece of legislation could effectively eliminate all U.S. corporate taxes, subsidize hundreds of millions of dollars in new corporate investment, increase the take-home pay of most U.S. employees, ease state and local budgets, and reduce the U.S. trade deficit — all without increasing the federal budget.

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