Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. As you think about what business books you want to read next year, how about adding to the list at least one book from the list below. Top Books About Leadership.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi and Art Kleiner stated in their 2015 Harvard Business Review article that only 8% of leaders are effective at both creating good strategies and executing them. What leaders require is the understanding and the tools. For this to happen companies need to invest in closing the Strategy Execution Skills Gap.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2015

If your site has no visitors, developing it is a waste of time. There is a plethora of tools on the Web that can help you to tune up your website. For instance, the Pingdom Website Speed Test tool will analyze your site and tell you what to fix. Set up social media profiles. Social media is a great way of doing that.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2015

He is the founder of Access Consciousness®, a personal development modality that has helped thousands worldwide by giving them tools to create change in all aspects of life – from addiction, recovery, weight loss, business, money, health, relationships and creativity. The Access tools are now offered in 173 countries.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 11, 2015

The benefits of launching a book are many: increased visibility and credibility, tighter messaging, an angle around which to build a publicity campaign, a tool to acquire new business, and more. Tanya Hall is the CEO of Greenleaf Book Group, a publisher and distributor with a specialty in developing non-fiction bestsellers and brands.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Booth exhibitions at trade shows are viable and cost-effective sales tools to: Achieve new customers, in order to grow and increase profits. Delineate other categories of visitors, and develop a strategy for maximizing your time with key prospects. Notify your trade media that you will participate. Introduce new products.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Learning from others’ experiences is an important aspect of professional development in surgery. ” Enter social media. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms have emerged as powerful tools for keeping surgeons connected. shuoshu/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

that every company is used to capturing, but also unstructured data (data scraped from the Internet and social media channels that may come in a wide variety of formats, from video to voice). Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

So to me, it’s somewhat ironic that mindfulness has now taken the media by storm because of its scientifically proven benefits for focus and productivity. A wisdom tradition associated with personal growth and insight is now being absorbed by our culture as a tool for career development and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2017

Compare that with 67% and 66% in 2016 and 2015, respectively. The word “digital” used to mean your company’s investments in IT, and perhaps social media readiness, but now it’s bigger, touching on your company’s overall culture. On a global basis, companies are losing faith in their digital smarts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

Consider the embarrassing situation that Microsoft found itself in with its Tay chatbot fiasco , where internet trolls exploited vulnerabilities in the bot’s code, feeding it racist, homophobic, and sexist content that millions read on social media. 2015: A robot for grabbing auto parts grabbed and killed a man. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

These free tech tools can be directly applied in a work role or used simply to build one’s creative and technical skills. More applicably, using these technologies will develop one’s technological skills, methodological knowledge, and subject matter experience, which is an asset to one’s career. LinkedIn SlideShare: www.slideshare.net.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

In these days of social media chest-thumping, it seems like everyone is calling themselves an expert. Nate Silver , the famed presidential prognosticator, similarly taught himself the statistical skills he needed by creating a tool to track baseball players’ performance – techniques he later applied to the Electoral College.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As mobile devices and borderless technology networks like Facebook, Google, and Tencent increasingly connect billions of people around the world, everything about the pace, profile, and application of modern media is changing. However, “mobile” isn’t just the device — it’s the whole ecosystem attached to it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 24, 2015

We sometimes underestimate the influence we have via our social media channels. Unlimited takes an inward look at the kind of social media manager she would hire –to run her personal pages for good. The 2015 Millennial Impact Report suggests Millennials have a giving mindset and are converting their influence to action.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

With so much of our work, relationships, learning, and leisure now taking place on screens or networks, we need to ensure that our habits for digital tools are supporting both our personal and professional goals. Conversely, it’s useful to think about any tools that really let you down.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

Perhaps the most common misconception about adopting virtual work is that it is an all-or-nothing proposition, such that once we have networking tools in place, there is no need to come together — or conversely that we have to be in the office all the time. And they’ve learned which virtual media is appropriate for certain tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Creating the Venture Client Model.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

All too often companies misunderstand the value of their cybersecurity teams and underfund their development. Before joining Facebook as a security engineer in 2015, I worked in industries from consulting to manufacturing to retail. This enables developers to quickly and effectively write code that is more secure from the start.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

With the end of Climate Week 2015 and to encourage other companies to make similar bold commitments, allow me to share what we’ve learned. We’re working closely with refrigerant manufacturers, academic institutions and customers to develop, test, apply, and educate users about adoption of next-generation refrigerant options.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

IBM has invested in social media training, toolkits and personalized digital pages to help its inside salespeople generate leads and manage account relationships. For field salespeople, this means developing new technology and communication competencies. Many B2B companies are making inside sales a priority.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

But the emergence of the social web meant there was an ever-expanding set of websites and tools that were driven by the same kind of online participation I’d researched for my dissertation. Before I knew it, I had started what we’d now call a social media agency. Is that still the right advice in 2015?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C It has the tools, resources, and the responsibility to help make this rapid transition happen.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. Smart marketers are developing, partnering to build, or integrating AI into their tech stacks to get better at what they do.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2015, she prepared to sell a batch of 15 new clothing items at 3:00 p.m. Ten of thousands so of fans are waiting for the sale to begin having already seen previews of this sale on social media. What is remarkable is that she finds her customers on social media, keeps almost no inventory, and owns no factories. By 3:45 p.m.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In media, they will gravitate to multiple devices and to the newest services to stream video and audio. In China, smartphones are prevalent among urban consumers and social media sites are used for everything from shopping for groceries to paying credit card bills to buying an insurance policy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. We’ve all seen some eye-bulging numbers in recent years about the internet of things (IoT).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. The New Tools of Marketing. In a 2015 report on the Millennial traveler, “free Internet access” was the top-ranked desired amenity. They already account for a third of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

Data scientists are vital in analyzing data not only from these devices, but also from customers'' signals in the form of unstructured data from posts on social media sites, so technical troubles can be detected early and communicated. Utility companies are now developing these advanced data skills through public-private initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

But with intense media and regulatory focus on oil prices adding complexity to a current restructuring in the organization, Michel was now facing an internal crisis that he had not foreseen. Building on the effectiveness of this type of quick assessment, we developed the Stress-APGAR barometer. The tipping point of distress.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Increasingly the way to reach the next generation of employees is through social media , both to recruit them and to engage them. Already 35% of the workforce is comprised of Millennials, born after 1977, and they will comprise nearly 50% of the workforce by 2015. Do you know what the cost of HR is per employee?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. We stopped judging our consumers and ourselves about our media habits.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Standing on stage on September 9, 2014 at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Tim Cook announced, “We’ve created an entirely new payment process, and we called it Apple Pay.” It focused on developing a critical mass of cardholders and restaurants in a small geographic area—Manhattan.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The 3 C’s ensure that you have the tools you need to overcome your grief on your own personal timeline, and according to your own unique personality. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. There is no one size fits all. Do it on your own terms, but just do it. She may be reached online at www.TheLuxeList.com.

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