David A Fields
JANUARY 30, 2018
As a consultant and leader of a consulting firm, inquiry is your most powerful tool. Last week’s article drew from toddlers’ propensity to say No. Consultants can learn even more from little tykes. Children are inquisition machines, pestering their parents and teachers with scores of questions every day.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 30, 2018
Grant Faint/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. We’ve all been in the awkward situation of meeting someone new and having to build rapport quickly — at networking events, industry conferences, charity events, dinner parties, and other social-professional situations. If you’re like many people — especially most Americans — you break the awkward silence with a pretty standard question: “So, what do you do?
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Strategy+Business
JANUARY 30, 2018
Medicaid, the massive U.S. government health program that covers 75 million people, is shifting from its traditional fee-for-service model to a managed care model. Given the pressures on managed care organizations (MCOs) -- health plans managed by private companies that provide care for 65 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries -- a winner-take-all scenario is likely to develop.
Seth Godin Blog
JANUARY 30, 2018
The medicine show hypester, the confidence man, the snake oil salesman… my country has a long history of marketers of ill repute. The reason is simple: we spent two hundred years spreading out over the continent, and unlike Europe, strangers were common. Everyone was coming and going, and it wasn’t unusual at all to engage with someone you didn’t know.
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Peter Stark
JANUARY 30, 2018
It only takes one ineffective leader to lower productivity and increase turnover in your organization and these two problems can cost you thousands of dollars if left unchecked. But there is hope! Many leaders are unaware of the negative impact they are having on the people and productivity around them. Given the chance, they learn and grow to become effective, high-producing team leaders.
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MBO Partners
JANUARY 30, 2018
Going independent is a logical step in a Gen Xer's career path. Learn four tips to leverage your strengths when making the transition to independent work.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 30, 2018
Matt Lyon/Getty Images. The decline in demand for paper hit Stora Enso hard. By 2011 the pulp and paper giant — the world’s oldest corporation, dating back to 1288 — had laid off over one-third of its 30,000 employees. Though profitable again, the company needed to transform itself into a global renewable materials company. Jouko Karvinen, the CEO at the time, and his team decided not to depend on consultants, which would have been the typical way to go.
Cheryl Cran
JANUARY 30, 2018
We are in an increasingly competitive environment when it comes to attracting top talent. Fortune 500 article indicates there are 5 million jobs that companies are looking to fill in 2018. The days of a recruiter requiring numerous interviews to hire someone are gone for now. A lot of companies are looking at unorthodox and progressive ways to find talent for jobs that need to be filled right now.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 30, 2018
Juj Winn/Getty Images. Diversity is both an issue of fairness and, some say, a driver of innovation and performance. To assess the latter claim, we undertook a large, cross-country study into the relationship between multiple aspects of managerial diversity, the presence of enabling conditions such as leadership support for diversity, and innovation outcomes.
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Cheryl Cran
JANUARY 30, 2018
We are in an increasingly competitive environment when it comes to attracting top talent. Fortune 500 article indicates there are 5 million jobs that companies are looking to fill in 2018. The days of a recruiter requiring numerous interviews to hire someone are gone for now. A lot of companies are looking at unorthodox and […]. The post Top Ten Ways to Attract Top Talent in 2018 appeared first on NextMapping.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 30, 2018
hans neleman/Getty Images. Nondisclosure agreements, or NDAs, which are increasingly common in employment contracts, suppress employee speech and chill creativity. The current revelations surfacing years of harassment in major organizations are merely the tip of the iceberg. New data shows that over one-third of the U.S. workforce is bound by an NDA.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 30, 2018
Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images. Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Call it the “democratization of AI.” To accomplish that goal, AT&T is building a user-friendly platform with point-and-click tools that will enable employees —
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