David A Fields
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Maybe you scanned your business bucket list this morning, or maybe you glanced at your consulting firm’s annual goals last Monday… or maybe not. Does it matter? Of course. Let’s talk about the right time to review your goals. Is there a right time to be responsive to your clients? Yes: any time you’re working.
Markovitz Consulting
OCTOBER 3, 2017
A reader questioned my post about the lean conference I recently attended where everyone was a rabid adherent of Paul Akers’s 2 Second Lean philosophy. He wondered whether these companies are truly practicing lean, or just kaizen. In fact, he argued that perhaps Paul should be calling it “2 Second Kaizen” rather than “2 Second Lean.” He has a point.
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MishTalk
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Nigel Farage made his best speech ever in the European Parliament. Farage called the Catalonia crackdown a foretaste of EU political suppression. Watch and enjoy. (more…).
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Rotman School of Management professor Laura Doering talks to s+b about fostering economic development and entrepreneurship in emerging economies. Development policies may come together at a high level, she explains, but their success is dependent on the complex daily interactions among people --interactions that are vulnerable to bias and driven by basic needs.
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MishTalk
OCTOBER 3, 2017
10,000 police from Spain tried to stop a Catalonia independence referendum but failed. In the wake of the referendum, in which 90% voted for independence, Catalans now refer to the Spanish police as an occupation force. Mayors in two cities booted 500 of them. What’s Next? (more…).
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MishTalk
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Society General’s Albert Edwards was at the Bank Credit Analyst annual conference in New York last week. Also in attendance were Larry Summers, Paul Volcker, and potentially the next Fed Chair, ex Fed-Governor Kevin Warsh. Edwards’ email comments on Warsh and Summers ring a bell with me. (more…).
LSA Global
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Does a People First Corporate Culture Make Sense? Most employees believe that a people first corporate culture makes sense. Their argument? Employee engagement and employee happiness result in more customer loyalty and more profitable customers. Should people in your organization really come first? The short answer – it depends on your business strategy.
MishTalk
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Auto sales are running substantially above estimates according to Econoday. Apparently, economists did not see the restocking needed for many hundreds of thousands of autos ruined by hurricanes Harvey and Irma. (more…).
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Advances in platform technology are helping organizations make strides toward long-standing goals of agility, simplicity, and cost savings. The transformation of platforms from complex and expensive stacks of hardware into flexible computing resources represents a major step toward enabling business agility. Given the ability to provision their own computing resources through self-service and storefront-like interfaces, business units will be less tempted to turn to shadow IT.
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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
MishTalk
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Auto sales are running substantially above estimates according to Econoday. Apparently, economists did not see the restocking needed for many hundreds of thousands of autos ruined by hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
IT and business leaders face the daunting task of not only upgrading workplace technology and modernizing infrastructure but also overcoming user resistance to new ways of working. To ensure the workplace transformation delivers expected business benefits, organizations must address the “people” aspects of change – culture, behavior, ways of working, and user resistance.
MishTalk
OCTOBER 3, 2017
10,000 police from Spain tried to stop a Catalonia independence referendum but failed. In the wake of the referendum, in which 90% voted for independence, Catalans now refer to the Spanish police as an occupation force. Mayors in two cities booted 500 of them. What’s Next?
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
By Dave Aron, Global Research Director, Leading Edge Forum, DXC Technology. Talent wars will decide the winners and losers in the next decade. Getting access to great talent and unleashing motivation and discretionary effort are arguably the most important jobs for leaders in all areas of every business and government agency. This is especially important and challenging in the IT and digital domains, because the “artist formerly known as the IT organization” is evolving rapidly as ne
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MishTalk
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Society General’s Albert Edwards was at the Bank Credit Analyst annual conference in New York last week. Also in attendance were Larry Summers, Paul Volcker, and potentially the next Fed Chair, ex Fed-Governor Kevin Warsh. Edwards’ email comments on Warsh and Summers ring a bell with me.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
By Glen Robinson, Emerging Technology Advisor, Leading Edge Forum, DXC Technology. We have moved from the Internet era in the early 2000s to the cloud era today; however, we will soon transition into the Matrix era – the Matrix being the term the Leading Edge Forum (LEF) uses to describe the intersection of multiple game-changing technologies that will drive significant change in the world in which we live and do business.
MishTalk
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Nigel Farage made his best speech ever in the European Parliament. Farage called the Catalonia crackdown a foretaste of EU political suppression. Watch and enjoy.
MBO Partners
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Five ways to invigorate your encore career as an independent professional.
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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.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
As digital technologies permeate all aspects of their operations, companies around the world anticipate the need for massive change over the next five years, according to a new global survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. But can these organizations adapt fast enough? Almost all of the 376 business leaders in the survey said they expect that the pressure to transform will only accelerate and intensify.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
At a time of profound volatility in the U.S. health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? As someone who has led large change management projects in both the federal government and a large private health system, my view is that effective leader
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
How inclusive or exclusive should organizations be when developing their employees’ talents? In a world of unlimited resources, organizations would surely invest in everyone. After all, as Henry Ford is credited as saying, “the only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.” In the real world, however, limited budgets force organizations to be much more selective, which explains the growing interest in high potenti
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
How will AI change strategy? That’s the single most common question the three of us are asked from corporate executives, and it’s not trivial to answer. AI is fundamentally a prediction technology. As advances in AI make prediction cheaper, economic theory dictates that we’ll use prediction more frequently and widely, and the value of complements to prediction – like human judgment – will rise.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Sarah* is a high school teacher in a school district without much understanding or acceptance of transgender individuals. For years, she remained closeted about her gender identity due to fear over how her colleagues would respond. When Sarah finally decided to come out at work, the emotional and social consequences associated with being her true self became almost unbearable: “At school, I’m walking on eggshells, watching my back, being very protective, and having to stake out every
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