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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

Here are a few areas that are probably creating lethal operational drag on the corporate ship. At this level, managers are consumed with the chaos of daily operations, and seldom have any understanding—or bandwidth—to execute on the lofty strategic goals pronounced in the C-Suite. Problem: lack of clarity around strategy.

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Go Faster Alone but Farther Together

Chad Barr

Under his guidance, LEGO adopted a collaborative ethos, rallying its entire workforce around a pivotal strategy that focused on the iconic LEGO brick, deepened community engagement, and streamlined its operations.

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Band Parents?—?The Ideal Ad Hoc Team Model?

Harmonious Workplaces

Like sports, the work challenges the mind, body, and spirit, and it forms strong social skills and connections imperative to performing well. Even a quick tutorial using the EDGE method (explain, demonstrate, guide, and empower) can create high-performing individuals, especially with the talents they bring naturally. Willem, A.,

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HBCUs and the NFL Draft: The Data and the Story

UPD Consulting

A historical look at the role of Black athletes and HBCUs in the sport, specifically through the lens of the NFL Draft, provides us with many rich stories about the development of football as we currently know it as well as the larger American society it operates within.

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The Paths of Consultancy

Tom Spencer

Through sheer desire (and a strong talent for analytics), he achieved a top spot in an industry with no room for the gangly and physically lacking among us. By accepting graduates from a broad range of majors consultancy is a field full of a diverse range of talent. But he knew that he wanted to be involved in the sport.

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How to Be an Effective Player-Coach at Work

LSA Global

The origin of the term player-coach refers to a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Although the practice is mostly extinct in sports, many companies today expect their managers – especially their first-level managers – to be an effective player-coach at work. Talent – Build Skills.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are.