Actionable

AUGUST 14, 2017

When you leverage the cadence of your business, you can understand when it's quieter than usual and work on your business instead of only in it. The post Smooth Sailing: Leveraging the Cadence of Your Business appeared first on Actionable.co.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2017

Fed Chair Janet Yellen keeps citing consumer confidence and jobs as reasons consumer spending and inflation will pick up. Curiously, the New York Fed Survey on Consumer Spending Expectations keeps trending lower and lower, despite survey-high expectations for wage growth. The report for July 2017 was released today. I downloaded the survey results and produced the following charts.

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Actionable

AUGUST 14, 2017

When you leverage the cadence of your business, you can understand when it's quieter than usual and work on your business instead of only in it. The post Smooth Sailing: Leveraging the Cadence of Your Business appeared first on Actionable.co.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2017

Here’s one that came my way earlier today although the report was from January: New York Fed Chief Dudley has an Idea — Homeowners Should Tap Into Equity. (more…).

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Strategy+Business

AUGUST 14, 2017

A small but growing number of retailers and restaurants are experimenting with selling their wares through unstaffed kiosks, often linked to apps and e-payment systems.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 14, 2017

I recently had the pleasure of needing tech support a couple times. In my opinion, an online chat is the worst way to get help (for the customer). For the company, it may be the best because, it seems, each support person can handle multiple people at the same time, versus only one via telephone. But I think it’s a waste of resources. I will bet the old, “Dollars to donuts” it takes more time to bounce between customers and their issues than to concentrate on one at a time.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 14, 2017

Change management tips exist on everything from change management strategies to change management tactics to help make both personal and organization changes a success. Some change management tips are practical and helpful. Others are obviously written by people who have never led or managed a complex organizational change initiative. Organizational Change is Hard.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 14, 2017

Firms often struggle with finding the best way to motivate their salesforce. How much of a rep’s compensation should consist of a fixed salary and how much should be based on commission? Should commissions be capped? What’s the effectiveness of bonuses and other incentives? And so on. While past quantitative research has investigated some of these issues, in our recent study we focused on an under-researched aspect of salesforce compensation: sales quotas.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 14, 2017

Change management tips exist on everything from change management strategies to change management tactics to help make both personal and organization changes a success. Some change management tips are practical and helpful. Others are obviously written by people who have never led or managed a complex organizational change initiative. Organizational Change is Hard.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 14, 2017

We all know we should take time away from work. But too often we let our constant busyness and the threat of looming deadlines keep us from going on vacations. This has consequences for our stress levels, our teams, and our organizations. It also costs us. According to research by Project: Time Off , an organization that studies vacation time in the U.S., most Americans don’t use all of their vacation days.

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MBO Partners

AUGUST 14, 2017

Follow these four steps to take your consulting business beyond the start-up phase and to the next level.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

AUGUST 14, 2017

Whether you work at home or outside of the home, many hours a day are spent on menial, mundane tasks and responsibilities and simply going through everyday routines. Bethany shares three things you can do to gain a new awareness about how your Strengths show up in the mundane of everyday life. The post Seeing Strengths in the Mundane of Everyday Life appeared first on Leadership Vision.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 14, 2017

Despite all the mandatory trainings on sexual harassment that have taken place in American workplaces over the last two decades, the problem seems to be getting worse. Sex discrimination claims made to the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are up about 10% in the last 20 years. Some of that is surely due to increased reporting, but some is also the result of changing gender dynamics in society.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2017

Robots are taking our jobs says the Brookings Institute. This causes “ Robot Anxiety “, but not everywhere, just in the Red states that swung the election to Trump. (more…).

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