Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In their desire to enable employees to continue growing and learning professionally, many companies have fallen hard for the lure of Learning Management Systems. While LMSs are capable of doing some great things, they are far from the end-all, be-all of Learning and Development. In fact, more and more companies are realizing that pure automation isn’t all it’s cracked up.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2017

"Go with your gut," is occasionally good advice. More often, though, it's an invitation to indulge in your fear or to avoid the hard work of understanding the nuance around us. Better advice is, "invest in making your gut smarter.". The world is a lot more complex than our gut is likely to comprehend, at least without training. Train your gut, get better instincts.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Does Your People Strategy Support High Growth? If you are one of the lucky businesses set up for high growth in the coming months or a business that aspires to grow rapidly, be sure your people strategy will support your high growth plans. Our organizational alignment research found talent accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Alan king/unsplash. Companies that want to help their employees become better stewards of cybersecurity need to go beyond regular trainings on password security and other basic protocols. The best way to train employees to defend against hackers is to teach them how to think like one. The first step is getting smart about what it actually means to be a “hacker.” Start by forgetting everything the media and entertainment industry has told you about hackers.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Linda Coussement/eyeem/Getty Images. The Indian economy has long been an attractive investment destination for multinational corporations. Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% and 7.6% over the next three years. However, India remains a difficult market for multinational firms to enter.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Nicholas Blechman for hbr. Rising pressure to achieve better medical outcomes with increasingly limited financial resources has created an acute need for more physician leaders. Several studies (including this one ) have shown that doctors want to be led by other doctors; they trust physician leaders to make the right decisions about redesigning health care delivery and balancing quality and cost.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

CSA plastock/Getty Images. As the U.S. Congress considers the tax proposal put forward by Republicans, there has been plenty of debate over how it would affect innovation. Proponents argue that lower taxes would increase corporate investment ; critics contend that the bill would hurt research universities and that the bills as written would neutralize the R&D tax credit for businesses.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Tim Evans for HBR. What happened to the antitrust movement ? This was the question asked by Richard Hofstadter in the mid-1960s. Antitrust, observed the historian, once was the subject of a progressive movement in the U.S. that stirred public agitation and imagination, despite few antitrust prosecutions. By the 1960s, there were many antitrust prosecutions (by both Democratic and Republican administrations), but without any antitrust movement.

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