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3 Ways Executives Can Champion Lifelong Learning

Lead Change Blog

Advances in technology have allowed countless individuals to pursue interests that extend beyond the standard classroom, on their own time, and often for little to no cost. Recently I’ve been learning how to handcraft leather goods and have taken workshops on data visualization. percent from the previous fall.”.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Authority on new technology and communication. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Former HR Director and member of executive management team at the National Irish Bank. Facilitates workshops on vision, mission and values integration.

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business Review

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. You and Your Team Series. So who can actually help? What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job?

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. And prior to the latest economic challenges, its middle class was estimated to account for as much as 60% of the total population.

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The Conference That’s Trying to Reinvent How We Network

Harvard Business Review

” You and Your Team. But there were many others — from the completely unstructured (communal tables for snack and lunch breaks and narrow corridors between presentation areas, which had everyone literally rubbing elbows) to the very structured (labs, masterclasses, workshops). Technology also played a big role.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Insight Center.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. Yet scaling is also a problem of less.