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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. Leadership requires the will to push the limits combined with the skills to get people to willingly, enthusiastically, and repeatedly engage and contribute to important work. Next Practices.

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Strategizing for Success: Keys for Planning Annual Sales & Marketing Goals, part 2 of 2

Strategy Driven

What skills did you develop? For instance, how many hours of sleep did you average per night this year, and how many hours would you need to achieve optimal energy for top business performance? Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey for 2013 revealed that 70 percent of Americans do not prepare a detailed personal budget.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Unlocking Energy. Building Empathy.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

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50 Companies That Get Twitter – and 50 That Don’t

Harvard Business Review

A witty comment or botched response on Twitter can travel to Facebook and even news websites in minutes (think of the Oreo tweet during the Superbowl blackout of 2013 ). The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. The algorithm is able to infer gender based on language.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

trillion in wages are automatable by today’s technology, which could open the door to new ways to harness human energy as well as to displacing routine jobs and increasing social inequities. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. ” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6 Digital markets are uneven.