Peter Winick

JULY 29, 2024

Essential Strategies for Leading Innovation Teams A conversation with Jon Cagan and Peter Boatwright about bringing unique management skills to highly talented teams to increase innovation and productivity. Welcome to another dynamic episode of the Thought Leadership Leverage podcast with your host, Bill Sherman. Today, we delve into the heart of innovation with two distinguished guests: Peter Boatwright, Professor of Marketing at the Tepper School of Business, and Jonathan Cagan , the Coulter H

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2024

Humans have relied on generalizations forever as a mental shortcut — and a way of running a business efficiently. But just as advancements in AI are making it possible to move beyond a handful of customer personas to infinitely personalizable products and messaging, they are also revealing to us a broader world full of ever-changing unique detail. Weinberger, a technology philosopher, and Zanini, a business innovation strategist, show us four areas in which the particular is making itself known

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Manager 140

Lolly Daskal

JULY 29, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I have seen firsthand how communication plays a significant role in how people perceive and respect you. Many of my clients are unaware that they are being rude. It’s only through coaching that they gain the insight needed to recognize and address this issue. Often, the culprit behind unintentional rudeness is the use of common phrases. that have become so ingrained in our daily conversations that we rarely stop to consider their impact.

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Employee Engagement Leadership Development 123

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2024

While working while on vacation isn’t ideal, there may be times when projects, deadlines, or client obligations prevent you from being fully offline. While it’s not easy to balance these competing priorities, it is possible to get critical work done while enjoying some refreshing time off. The key is to do a little pre-planning, making sure to avoid a few common mistakes people make when mixing business and personal travel.

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Travel Manager 136

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Alison Green

JULY 29, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Welcome to Mortification Week , where we’ll be talking all week about how we’ve mortified ourselves at work. To start us off, here are 15 stories people have shared here (or submitted via email) about work moments they now cringe over. 1. The unexpected video call During the pandemic, when we were all just learning how to really work from home, I, a woman, had logged on earlier than usual to check something, got distracted fin

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Engineering Manager Retention 118

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2024

As companies prepare for climate change, many overlook the critical impact on employee health from events like wildfires, extreme heat, and flooding. This oversight can lead to significant financial costs due to increased healthcare expenses, reduced productivity, and decreased labor availability. To address these risks, companies should conduct health audits, implement early-warning systems, learn from public sector practices, support mental health, and maintain transparent communication.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2024

In the U.S., it’s normal for policy uncertainty to increase before a major election, then decrease once the results are in. In any other election cycle, the predictable increase and decrease in uncertainty offers shrewd managers unique opportunities for operating, investment, and financing decisions. Election years are the time to pursue projects that entail minimal commitments and expenditures but will produce tremendous first-mover advantage and large payoffs if post-election policy turns out

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Operations Manager Government 113

Alison Green

JULY 29, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Coworker’s retirement email took credit for our full product line I received an email from a coworker who is retiring next month. The worker, let’s call him Carl, announced his upcoming retirement and then bragged for a long paragraph about his integral design accomplishments for an important product line.

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Engineering Hospitality Manager Implementation 106

Rhythm Systems Growth

JULY 29, 2024

As a leader, your company or team is only as strong as your leadership capabilities. If you find yourself stuck at a certain stage, your team will also be held back. Rhythm Systems CEO, Patrick Thean , often says “The fish rots from the head down” - meaning if you look around your business and see things you don’t like, as a leader, you should look first in the mirror to fix it.

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Accounts 97

Alison Green

JULY 29, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. With summer internship season in full swing, your workplace may be experiencing an influx of young people who don’t quite know how work works yet. This is often delightful! Interns can bring new ideas, fresh energy, and an ability to explain what brat summer is. But part of hosting interns is accepting that they often don’t know workplace norms yet; after all, part of the point of an internship is to learn how offices operate.

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Energy Operations Manager 95

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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BetterUp

JULY 29, 2024

Jump to section Productivity tips to help you make the most of your days Why improve your productivity? What inhibits productivity?

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Manager 102

Kellogg Insight

JULY 29, 2024

Remote work, technology, and climate change are all set to transform the labor market. Here’s how.

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Marketing 89

Nir Eyal

JULY 29, 2024

See if you can relate to Sarah. She’s a software engineer who loves her job—except for her manager, Tom. To Tom, everything is a crisis worthy of interrupting Sara, even when she’s trying to focus on her work. One morning, while Sarah was coding a critical feature, Tom called and asked her to drop everything to help with an urgent report for the CMO.

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Engineering Software Manager 57

UVA Darden

JULY 29, 2024

Launching a New Product or Business? Here’s a Framework for Success. fosterl Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:12 Image 29 July 2024 Entrepreneurship & Innovation Effectuation: The Logic of Expert Entrepreneurs Gosia Glinska Trying to get a startup off the ground? Be prepared to face the world of unknowns: Will customers buy your product? Can you outpace competitors?

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Marketing Business Administration Sales Sales 52

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

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.

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Niagara Institute

JULY 29, 2024

When you think of leadership development, what comes to mind? Perhaps intense training sessions, personal coaching, or years of experience rising through the ranks. While these traditional methods have their merits, artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into the toolbox of aspiring leaders. But let's be clear right from the start: AI is no silver bullet.

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Leadership Development 52

Help Scout Leadership

JULY 29, 2024

Discover C2C ecommerce, how it functions, examples of C2C firms, and the advantages and disadvantages of this business model.

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eCommerce 45