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Battle-Tested Advice for New Managers and Tough Conversations

LSA Global

We know from decades of designing and delivering customized new manager training programs that new managers and leaders are especially apt to shy away from difficult conversations or tough situations. Clarify the team’s goals, plan, scope, deliverables, success metrics, roles and responsibilities with Chris. Reframe the problem.

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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business

Given that you’re unlikely to find an abundance of individuals with exceptional data management skills, it’s necessary to employ methodologies and technologies that present data in an accessible, visual, and intuitive fashion.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

However, recently they began to take a more holistic approach, focusing on lifetime value and their most profitable segment, the “fashionable spender.” ” This group looks across the business to gather behind-the-scenes information on the runway, newest clothing lines, and aspirational fashion content.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. In short, companies that want to get into this game will have to roll up their sleeves and do some old-fashioned blocking and tackling. Don’t make your AI too lite.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Thankfully, everything stayed in a nice orderly fashion, the way accountants like it, after the audit portrayed Peat Marwick in a favorable light. Diversity Advisory Board Scorecard – Developed to set meaningful diversity metrics for the firm. This was the first time a public accounting firm had initiated a peer review process.

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Recognizing the Role of Emotional Labor in the On-Demand Economy

Harvard Business

In the 1980s, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild coined the term emotional labor to refer to the ways flight attendants were trained to present a calm, friendly, and professional demeanor to customers — even if the flyers they were attending to were frightened, angry, or abusive.

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The Men Who Mentor Women

Harvard Business

Although many organizations have attempted to fight gender bias by focusing on women – offering training programs or networking groups specifically for them — the leaders we interviewed realized that any solutions that involve only 50% of the human population are likely to have limited success.

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