Fri.Nov 15, 2019

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Please, Not Another Argument for MBWA

Markovitz Consulting

Theodore Kinni argues in Strategy + Business that leaders must practice management by walking around (MBWA), a concept popularized by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman in their seminal book, In Search of Excellence. That’s the best way for them to stay connected to their businesses and understand what’s really happening with their customers. As Peters puts it, “The real meaning [of MBWA] was that you can’t lead from your office/cubicle.

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Are you answering the right make-buy questions for your clients?

The Source

Everything old is eventually new again—and right now, make-buy decisions are back on clients’ agendas. It wasn’t that long ago that outsourcing was the flavour of the month: Many businesses spent much of the 90s and early 00s taking advantage of an increasingly globalised economy by ruthlessly offshoring anything they saw as falling outside of their core business functions.

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Getting Your Team to Do More Than Meet Deadlines

Harvard Business

Here’s a system to help them set aside time for their most important work.

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How to Better Involve Employees During Organizational Change

LSA Global

Getting Organizational Change Right. Our challenge as leaders is to create organizations that are capable of constant learning, adaptation, and change. Because of increasing customer demands, competitive threats, and disruptive technologies, we believe that the most successful companies of the future will be the ones that consistently and effectively involve and empower employees during organizational change.

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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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Why Your Organization Needs an Innovation Ecosystem

Harvard Business

It creates a pipeline that helps good ideas emerge.

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Why So Many CEOs Don’t Realize They’ve Got a Bad Jobs Problem

Harvard Business

They’re using the wrong data to assess job quality.

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Compared to what?

Seth Godin Blog

Are today’s 50 richest billionaires happier than the 50 richest people who lived twenty years ago? It’s unlikely. And yet they control many times as much wealth. If you take a date to the fanciest, most exclusive restaurant in Portland, you may find the satisfaction that comes from having done something exclusive. On the other hand, if you were at that very same restaurant in Los Angeles, it might feel like a disappointing compromise.

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Create an Ethics Committee to Keep Your AI Initiative in Check

Harvard Business

It’s about more than just mitigating bias.

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How to Get More Men to Take Gender Balance Seriously

Harvard Business

Make it a business issue, not a diversity issue.

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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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Is Sustainable Investing Moving Into the Mainstream? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM UBS

Harvard Business

Sponsor content from UBS.

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