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Getting Top Clients As An Innovation Consultant with Erin Hersey: Podcast #56

Consulting Success

When people think of innovation, they’re often looking externally at products and services, but there’s so much innovation that can happen within companies. Oftentimes we create systems that we think have one outcome, but they can often have another or implications that we haven’t seen. Workplace anthropologist and lead inventor Erin Hersey talks about her work as an innovation consultant.

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How to be Politically Savvy

CaseInterview.com

“Whenever there are two people in the same room, there’s politics.”. - Eugene J Webb (1934-1995). Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor for over 25 years. One of my former professors made the argument that anytime there are two people in a room, there’s politics. Normally the term "corporate politics” has an enormously negative connotation.

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Nail Your Marketing Message in Your LinkedIn Profile

The Fearless Marketer

Your marketing message communicates to the world what your business is about. And your LinkedIn profile is the perfect place to both develop and spotlight your most focused marketing message. This is the fourth of five articles about the 5 Pillars of Marketing, my marketing model that helps get your marketing on track. Read the original article 5 Pillar here.

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Elon Musk A Cautionary Tale For Thought Leaders

Henry DeVries

If you write or speak about publicly traded stock, you need to know the rules. Avoid the tragic mistake Elon Musk made.

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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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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business

PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images. Many managers want to be more inclusive. They recognize the value of inclusion and diversity and believe it’s the right thing to aspire to. But they don’t know how to get there. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

RyanJLane/Getty Images. Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. Blockchain technology is not well understood and subject to a lot of hype. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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Letters and numbers

Seth Godin Blog

If you make serial numbers or passwords, don’t use 0 or o or 1 or l. Simply skip them as options. If you want people to remember something, don’t mix letters and numbers together. If you want people to be able to type in a code on a phone, don’t use caps. The best passwords and serial numbers to share are actually a series of simple words. blueredrobin is way easier to type and remember than b2#3R4, even though they have similar security.

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Making Great Decisions

Harvard Business

From the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS. Download the discussion guide for this episode. Join our online community. Download this podcast. There’s a lot that goes into making a good decision at work: figuring out priorities, coming up with options, analyzing those — and several steps later, planning for what to do if you’re wrong.

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Letters and numbers

Seth Godin Blog

If you make serial numbers or passwords, don’t use 0 or o or 1 or l. Simply skip them as options. If you want people to remember something, don’t mix letters and numbers together. If you want people to be able to type in a code on a phone, don’t use caps. The best passwords and serial numbers to share are actually a series of simple words. blueredrobin is way easier to type and remember than b2#3R4, even though they have similar security.

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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

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Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership

Harvard Business

Laura Leyshon/Getty Images. Female physicians continue to face myriad challenges in medicine ranging from implicit bias to gaps in payment and promotion to sexual harassment. So it is not surprising (though it’s still appalling) that although equal numbers of men and women now graduate from medical school, only a small fraction of female physicians become medical leaders.

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Why Agile Goes Awry — and How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images. In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity.

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