Chad Barr

JANUARY 31, 2018

In the past couple of weeks, I dedicated my weekly newsletter to sharing the profound life and business lessons I have learned from some of the remarkable men and women thought leaders. Today, I am going to dedicate my newsletter to the insights gained from some of my amazing clients: Phil Symchych: Full speed ahead! Col. John Boggs: True courage is having the mental quality that recognizes the fear of danger or criticism but enables a person to proceed in the face of it with calmness and confid

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SchellingPoint

JANUARY 31, 2018

Follow. ( 12 Followers ). X. Follow. E-mail : *. Follow. Unfollow. The post Design Thinking Needs Outside In Thinking appeared first on SchellingPoint Website.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

To meet investors' expectations for profitable growth, Aerospace & Defense companies will have to change strategy. Instead of returning capital to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends, they will have to invest aggressively in profitable growth initiatives. As they face changing expectations from the Defense Department and disruptive competitors, established A&D companies will have to assume greater risk for funding product and technology development.

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Consulthon

JANUARY 31, 2018

I would like to introduce new KPIs and re-engineer the existing ones that are not understandable by the majority of my team. Please share your experience in setting KPIs in your company.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 31, 2018

We recently went out for dinner with some good friends and in our discussions the husband touched on how his customers tell him if he was to leave they don’t know what they’d do (he’s in sales of technical production equipment). In other words, he’s indispensable, at least in the short-term. I often mention how business owners need to reduce and eliminate dependencies but there’s a flip side to it.

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SchellingPoint

JANUARY 31, 2018

The post Design Thinking Needs Outside In Thinking appeared first on SchellingPoint Website.

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Gina Abudi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Address them through communications. Obstacles to implementing change initiatives are common and can certainly cause change project failure if they are not addressed. Obstacles can be business-focused or personal-focused, as shown in the table below. Business-focused obstacles to change Personal-focused obstacles to change Lack of tools or technology to enable for success Insufficient information about [.].

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

GJON MILI/life/Getty Images. Working in online learning, I’ve found that every year around this time there’s a burst of sign-ups from workers seeking new skills. Perhaps it’s a matter of New Year’s resolutions, or a reaction to seeing their friends and colleagues make big career changes each January. Unfortunately, the initial commitment to learning all too often fizzles out.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

JANUARY 31, 2018

Sometimes at Leadership Vision, we play an informal game of Strengths pairings. Basically, we mash up two of the names of our Themes of Strengths to explain how they work together. We know that Strengths do not work alone. We never go one at a time with our Strengths. Rather, we try to tell a story and challenge people to see how pairs and combinations of Strengths can be discussed.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

anucha sirivisansuwan/Getty Images. The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. It is the continuous obligation of economic policy to match increases in productive potential with increases in purchasing power and demand. Otherwise the potential created by technical progress runs to waste in idle capacity, unemployment, and deprivation. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. 9.

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MBO Partners

JANUARY 31, 2018

Follow these three tips to ensure you compliantly engage independent contractor talent.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

Taira Kurihara/Getty Images. Companies are starting to care more about corporate social responsibility (CSR). Among the largest 250 companies in the world, 92% produced a CSR report in 2015, informing shareholders and the public about the firm’s activities. That’s up from 64% having such a report in 2005. Today, Fortune Global 500 firms spend around $20 billion a year on CSR activities.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2018

I’m a monthly contributor to the Gurock blog. This month’s article is Feedback & Feedforward for Continuous Improvement : Using Double-Loop Learning Challenges Our Assumptions. Single-loop learning is when you “Plan the work and work the plan.” Double-loop learning is when you challenge assumptions during the project. Agile approaches allow us to do so.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

John Holcroft/Getty Images. Some people’s careers take off, while others’ take longer — or even stall out. Common wisdom says that the former attend elite MBA programs, land high-powered jobs right out of school at prestigious firms, and climb the ladder straight to the top, carefully avoiding risky moves. But our data shows a completely different picture.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

Don Farrall/Getty Images. The increase of women in the paid workforce was arguably the most significant change in the economy in the past century. In the U.S., women’s participation in the labor market has nearly doubled, from 34% of working age women (age 16 and older) in the labor force in 1950 to almost 57% in 2016. When it passed 50% in 1978, working women became the norm.

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