Steve Shu Consulting

AUGUST 17, 2016

One concept that I describe in my recent book, Inside Nudging: Implementing Behavioral Science Initiatives , draws from Roberto Verganti. He uses the term, “Design-Driven Innovation.” I re-coin the concept as “Meaning-Driven Innovation” to ease the explanation a bit. The concept is that in order to innovate under such a framework, one needs to change the relationship between the product or service and the end user.

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David A Fields

AUGUST 17, 2016

You want great, business-building habits—calling prospects every day, regularly writing thought-leading content, waking up before noon—but how do you embed them firmly into your daily routine? Let’s use a little science and the Four Ties method to put you on the path to greatness. The image below, adapted from this outstanding book (buy at least 10 copies, please), was developed to help executives make organizational behavior changes stick.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 14, 2016

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Amazon. Named by Forbes as one of their 2013 Top 10 most reputable companies, Amazon originally began as a bookworm’s dream come true. Now, the Seattle based company has changed the landscape of online buying. Enjoy! ———— History & Culture.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 13, 2016

Cheap money should help to stimulate the world economy, but is it working? Following the leave campaign winning the Brexit referendum, which will see the UK leave the EU two years after the Prime Minister notifies the European Council of its intention to do so , there was much fear about what this would mean for the strength of the UK economy. Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, issued a statement immediately following the result in which he aimed to calm market sentiment.

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Women in Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2016

By: Elizabeth Borelli. The word “social” has ch anged its meaning for most people these days , as social media has leapt from the great unknown to a top-of-mind 24/7 default in the connection stratosphere. No doubt, we’re using it right now to communicate. But is prioritizing social media as your communication default really an even trade off? Before we go further, let’s see what’s really at stake here.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 15, 2016

The extremely smart Nick Morgan of Public Words recently published an article that reveals the results of a study on stress. The study shows that “stress – and the emotions of frustration, anxiety and fear that go with it – are contagious.” This is important for leaders to realize prior to experiencing a crisis. Why? Because successful crisis management often requires an appearance, in some capacity, by the organization’s leadership.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2016

It’s not news that the role of salespeople and selling is changing. In the past, salespeople were often the first step in a purchase process, and could significantly influence customer decision-making by controlling information about pricing, availability, competitive advantage, etc. But in this era of nearly ubiquitous information, customers usually engage with salespeople after they’ve already researched their purchase and in some cases made their purchase decision.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 16, 2016

According to Ford’s just announced plans, my 2022-2024 target for mass deployment of self-driving vehicles in the US is right … Continue reading →

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BCG

AUGUST 17, 2016

Article Wednesday, August 17, 2016. Agile development has gone mainstream, but the software development methodology that helped hundreds of Silicon Valley startups explode onto the scene has delivered decidedly mixed results for more traditional organizations. In most cases, there is a critical point of failure: the product owner. A vital part of agile development, product owners are responsible for aligning the business, IT, and customer perspectives, and they have extraordinary power to create

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 17, 2016

With so many platforms and tools available to us today, how do you choose the right communications platform for your organization to leverage in a crisis? Tune in to this week’s #crisisready video and find out! Have more to add to this story? Comment below or use the hashtag #crisisready on Twitter and let’s continue this conversation! The post How to Choose Which Communications Platforms to Use in a Crisis appeared first on Melissa Agnes - Crisis Management Keynote Speaker.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2016

Part of the draw of self-managing organizations, like those we explore in our recent HBR article , is their promise to free us from the disease of micromanagement. But they’re not the only cure. Before we get to what works, let’s consider what micromanaging really is and what puts you at risk of doing it. It’s not just a personality or leadership trait that can be blamed on genetic makeup or bad training, as some arguments say.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 15, 2016

The Wall Street Journal reports that about 1,000 ships that have the combined capacity to haul 52 million metric tons … Continue reading →

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BCG

AUGUST 18, 2016

Article Thursday, August 18, 2016. Consider this scenario. Rolf, age 32, lives in Berlin with his wife and their infant daughter, who is approaching her first birthday. One Monday morning, as he rides the bus to work from his new apartment in the city’s Wilmersdorf section, where the family moved over the weekend, Rolf downloads his insurance company’s mobile app and updates his account information.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 15, 2016

Let’s go back in time and discuss sports history and electronics. For about 100 years baseball was the “National Pastime” while the other sports were side attractions. The NFL took a backseat to college football for many decades. College football was football. Then a few things happened. The NFL’s 1958 championship game, the first ever to go to overtime, is still called, “The Greatest Game Ever Played” (including from Total Football: The Official Encyclopedi

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2016

Millennials don’t have a reputation as a hard-working generation. The caricature of the Millennial worker is more or less a cartoon of an entitled recipient of hundreds of plastic participation trophies who cares less about paying his dues at work and more about perks like flex-time, beer carts, and nap rooms. Or perhaps I should say that “we” have that reputation, since I’m technically a Millennial — most demographers put the start-date for this generation at 1981.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 16, 2016

When people start cheering rising medical and rent prices as welcome “progress”, you know they belong back in the 5th … Continue reading →

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BCG

AUGUST 15, 2016

Focus Monday, August 15, 2016. Dairy is big business—and getting bigger every year. That’s no surprise. It satisfies a wide range of consumer needs, from increased protein consumption and overall health (particularly for growing children) to indulgence foods and even convenience. Yet as elemental as dairy is, its industry environment is anything but basic.

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Strategy+Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

The eminent expert on leading change describes how three classics -- including one of Freud's major volumes -- influence his thinking.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

Although employee engagement has become something of an HR fad, it would be hard to deny that it matters. In fact, robust meta-analytic studies show that higher levels of engagement boost employee wellbeing, performance, and retention. For example, engaged business units tend to deliver better performance, as measured in terms of revenues and profits, and organizations with enthusiastic employees tend to have better service quality and customer ratings.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 16, 2016

Economist Paul Krugman is whining for more fiscal stimulus, his favorite pastime by far. Krugman’s target this time is Japan.

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BCG

AUGUST 17, 2016

Article Wednesday, August 17, 2016. Over the past 15 years, Europe’s full-service airlines have flown through turbulent skies as they generally failed to adapt to an increasingly price-competitive short-haul market. Lately, the combination of rising demand and falling fuel costs has lifted profits. But there is more turbulence ahead: Brexit, increasing industry capacity, and competition for long-haul traffic from low-cost and high-­service Middle Eastern and Asian carriers are likely to undercut

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Gina Abudi

AUGUST 18, 2016

We can get new team members better acclimated to the group and to the work of the group’s initiative when we take the time to get to know them and understand what’s important to them. Additionally, by getting to know them, we begin to establish a strong working relationship as well as build trust with [.]. The post 6 Ways to Get to Know New Team Members appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2016

In 2014, Michael Callahan, then head of customer experience at Hulu, had a mystery on his hands. When the big video streaming service surveyed customers who renewed subscriptions, it discovered, paradoxically, that some customers stayed with Hulu even when they didn’t necessarily have a positive perception of the brand overall. It turned out that some customer service representatives of the third-largest player in the streaming video space were pushing fence-sitting customers too hard, sai

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MishTalk

AUGUST 18, 2016

An advisor to Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe says Bank of Japan Likely to Take Bold Easing Action at its … Continue reading →

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Henry DeVries

AUGUST 14, 2016

Attracting high-paying clients doesn’t take an Olympian effort, just a solid showing in these 10 marketing events.

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