Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Serving on boards is a vital part of what venture capitalists do. VCs who succeed at this will enjoy advantages, including building their own brand, increasing deal flow, and helping the companies they invest in perform better. To navigate board rooms more successfully, follow these seven tips.
Alison Green
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m attending a professional conference this week and it struck me that super long conference schedules are not something I’ve seen discussed on the blog. Here is an example: The conference I am attending has optional workout events starting at 6:30 in the morning.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
When multinational firms enter new markets, they have to choose how to manage the formal and informal local rules that can vary greatly. Local institutions and rules matter, and there are clear risks for top executives at headquarters who don’t take them seriously. But constantly adapting to local practices could jeopardize a company’s ability to integrate operations across markets.
Michael McKinney
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the value of daily surprises: “Try to be surprised by something every day. It could be something you see, hear, or read about. Stop to look at the unusual car parked at the curb, taste the new item on the cafeteria menu, actually listen to your colleague at the office.
Speaker: Debra Squyres
Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.
Alison Green
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I was recently attending a departmental meeting when I realized that — through a combination of steady promotions, organizational shakeups, and senior colleagues leaving over the years — I have somehow become the #3 ranked person in the department, both in terms of title and tenure.
Lolly Daskal
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Given the fast-paced, ever-changing nature of today’s business climate, the traditional notion of leadership is being challenged. While technical skills and managerial experience were once the primary criteria for identifying leaders. Forward-thinking companies are now recognizing the immense value that unconventional thinkers and innovators can bring to the table.
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Refresh
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Hiring empathetic, efficient, and communicative Customer Service Representatives is vital to providing good service and maintaining your business’… The post Champion Excellence During Customer Service Week first appeared on The Express Blog.
Chief Outsiders
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Our last blog discussed how artificial intelligence can be a competitive difference-maker for companies in the healthcare and life sciences industries. As we continue the conversation, we will highlight the importance of AI in the social media marketing landscape, especially how AI is re-imagining traditional content creation and audience targeting strategies.
Thought Leaders LLC
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Some people won’t have approval authority over your ideas, but they still seek to sabotage them nonetheless. Many times they’re doing this to advance their own interests. Every organization suffers from some level of political intrigue. Whether it’s hoarding of resources, manipulative tactics, or passive aggressive behavior office politics distract your organization from getting things done.
AlignOrg
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
In the dynamic world of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), the importance of organization design can’t be overstated. The process of organization design involves shaping an organization’s structure, processes, roles, and responsibilities to achieve its strategic goals and objectives. Truly understanding the role of org design in M&A will aid in a successful integration, ensuring the deal is accretive for the organization.
Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight
Learn how leading companies leverage AI to transform the employee experience, at scale. We'll debunk myths and showcase practical tools to help you confidently integrate AI into your EX strategy. Learn to personalize experiences, automate tasks, and streamline processes for a holistic approach. Leave energized and ready to champion AI as the key to a thriving workforce.
BetterUp
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
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Alison Green
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. Trainer had religious messages on his presentation screen I attended a multi-day training a few months back where the trainer who was running the presentations had extreme religious images/quotes as his laptop background, so every time they were between presentations, the image was projected on the screens at the front of the classroom.
Peter Winick
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Shifting from Coaching Individuals to Elevating the Entire Workforce In this episode, Kirstin Lytle shares how her organization is elevating leaders to their full potential and making the tools they offer more widely accessible. Join host Peter Winick as he dives into a compelling conversation with Kristin Lytle, CEO of The Leader’s Edge, an executive coaching firm transforming senior leadership.
Alison Green
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Last week we talked about times when banding together as a group and speaking up at work resulted in change. Here are eight stories you shared. 1. The coordinated survey I work in a regional office of a global company. Every year, global HR sends out a staff survey, and I noticed that the leadership likes to pick one little complaint that popped up in the survey and address it and make a big celebration about the improvement.
Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover
The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.
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