BCG
JUNE 21, 2017
Article Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Nearly 100 leading European executives gathered in Versailles for BCG’s eighth European Strategy Leadership Summit. Here are eight takeaways from the event.
Actionable
JUNE 21, 2017
Training ROI occurs when it’s relevant to the needs of the team, and the content can be evaluated and reshaped to solve challenges facing the team. The post High Impact Learning: Uncovering Your Training ROI appeared first on Actionable.co.
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MBO Partners
JUNE 21, 2017
Finding a balance between creating your own schedule and completing everything on your to-do list can be challenging as an independent professional. Follow these five tips for effective time management.
Strategy+Business
JUNE 21, 2017
With both cash and time in short supply at startups, skilled women seeking to restart their careers are a valuable talent pool.
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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.
BCG
JUNE 21, 2017
Article Wednesday, June 21, 2017 In China, online shopping is a chaotic yet seamless adventure—one that blurs the lines between entertainment and ecommerce.
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Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 21, 2017
We're pretty good at finding demons to be afraid of. The other. The one in the shadows. Change. The family member we can't possibly please. Competition. Critics. The invisible network of foes conspiring against us and what we stand for. It turns out, though, that the one who usually lets us down is us. Our unwillingness to leap, to commit, to trust our own abilities.
MishTalk
JUNE 21, 2017
In the first quarter of 2017, models that supposedly had a margin of error of one percentage point had more than two percentages points difference. The discrepancy between GDPNow and the FRBNY Nowcast is “only” one percentage point now, but my own personal assessment of second quarter GDP differs from GDPNow by at least 1.8 percentage points.
Strategy+Business
JUNE 21, 2017
With both cash and time in short supply at startups, skilled women seeking to restart their careers are a valuable talent pool.
MishTalk
JUNE 21, 2017
Once a month I get together with Gordon Long for a videocast of the month’s hot news topics. This month we discussed the Fed rate hike, the State of Illinois, loan creation, autos, housing, the yield curve, the Fed’s balance sheet, and GDP prospects. The video is about a half-hour long. Mike “Mish” Shedlock.
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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
Strategy+Business
JUNE 21, 2017
A new study on gender and ethnic diversity in corporate governance sets off alarms.
MishTalk
JUNE 21, 2017
Housing, which had been showing considerable second-quarter weakness bounced slightly. That was enough to beat the Econoday consensus. (more…).
Gina Abudi
JUNE 21, 2017
You need a plan! In the ideal world, 100% of our employees will adopt a change immediately. That rarely happens, of course. And, of course, we rarely get 100% of employees even after a while. To get as close as possible to 100% adoption of change, you must have a plan! Consider first, how much [.]. The post How will you enable your employees to adopt change?
Harvard Business
JUNE 21, 2017
From many passengers’ perspective, Uber is a godsend — lower fares than taxis, clean vehicles, courteous drivers, easy electronic payments. Yet the company’s mounting scandals reveal something seriously amiss, culminating in last week’s stern report from former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Some people attribute the company’s missteps to the personal failings of founder-CEO Travis Kalanick.
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Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.
Peter Stark
JUNE 21, 2017
The success, or the failure, of an executive team can be felt throughout the organization. Strong teamwork and communication at the top, trickles down through all levels of management, to front-line employees. However, when something is off above, even if kept locked in an ivory tower, it can be felt throughout the organization. This uneasy feeling can result in nervous managers who are confused about the expectations of their teams, disengaged employees who feel cut off from upper management, o
Harvard Business
JUNE 21, 2017
When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 billion, Amazon’s stock price rose 2.4% on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. At the same time, the price of SuperValu plummeted 14.4%, Kroger dropped 9.2%, and Sprouts fell 6.3%.
Chad Barr
JUNE 21, 2017
Many of my clients are well known authors of insightful books on a variety of topics. Some have published one book while others have published many. Most have recognized the benefits of being a published author so they may share their wisdom with the world, gain credibility and strengthen their global thought leadership. Many struggle with figuring out how to get published quickly, painlessly and successfully.
Harvard Business
JUNE 21, 2017
Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? And what’s the best way to acquire that know-how? Should Alice go to graduate school, or keep learning on the job?
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
MishTalk
JUNE 21, 2017
Illinois governor Bruce Rauner caved in on tax hikes and got absolutely nothing in return. A blistering Wall Street Journal editorial, The Illinois Capitulation , has the sorry details. Bruce Rauner spent a chunk of his personal fortune running for Governor in 2014 to save Illinois from its tax-and-spend political class. More than two years later it looks like the former private equity star has made better investments.
Harvard Business
JUNE 21, 2017
One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. Apparently, his company had won a million-dollar contract to design a sensor that could detect pollutants at very small concentrations underwater. It was an unusually complex problem, so the firm set up a team of crack microchip designers, and they started putting their heads together.
Harvard Business
JUNE 21, 2017
It is well understood that achieving the full potential of precision medicine for all cancer patients depends on the sharing of patients’ genomic and molecular data and clinical information. To this end, several efforts — including the Genomic Data Commons , ORIEN , and CancerLinQ — have been established to facilitate data sharing among clinicians and researchers and to create an open environment in which data sharing is more commonplace.
Harvard Business
JUNE 21, 2017
The Trump administration’s proposed tax reform plan to spur economic growth would lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15% and offer U.S. companies a one-time “tax holiday” rate of as low as 10% to bring home their stockpile of cash earned overseas. Given that the offshore stash is believed to total more than $2 trillion, advocates for a tax holiday claim that this influx will encourage companies to invest in their businesses, thereby creating millions of new jobs.
This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.
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