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Five Steps to Adopting a Beginner’s Mindset for Your Business

Strategy Driven

Through that understanding the team and I can then develop new solutions that save time and money or create greater efficiencies or develop better processes. Nobody has ever created a perfect company, nor trained a perfect employee. During her tenure as Marsh Global Sales COO, the company’s annual new sales topped more than $1.2

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7 Essentials to Successfully Coach Virtual Teams

Skip Prichard

Excerpted with permission from TEAMS UNLEASHED: how to Release the Power and Human Potential of Work Teams (Nicholas Brealey, 2019) by Phillip Sandahl, bestselling author of Co-Active Coaching and the CEO of Team Coaching International and Founding Partner, COO of TCI, Alexis Phillips. How to Coach Virtual Teams. Phillip Sandahl.

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How an Ownership Mentality Supports Cultural Transformation

Center for Creative Leadership

Technology trends. When we work with C-suite executives and with senior teams in our organizational practice, we often hear concerns about the disconnections between the current organizational culture and the needed culture to implement the future-proof strategy,” our COO David Altman says.

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Why a Gen-X CEO Hired a Millennial to Help Him Keep a Learning Mindset

Harvard Business Review

At age 41, I am where I want to be in my career: running my own sales-training business, with enough clients lined up that I can probably live comfortably for the next several years. Stop playing catch-up with technology. odla3D/Getty Images. But I’m in trouble. Every Gen Xer is. Here are a few things I’m learning from him.

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When Visualizing Data, You Have to Fail to Succeed

Harvard Business Review

one morning last December, an email from our COO arrived in our inboxes. Data scientists are not often trained artists or designers who know exactly what their audience wants. To create the one map that impressed our COO, we failed at least 10 times. Design Information & technology' At 4:26 a.m. This rarely works.

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Case Study: Can an Airline Cut “Turn Times” Without Adding Staff?

Harvard Business Review

The committee would insist that he first try making his crews more efficient. And after several fruitless meetings with the COO, the HR chief, and industry consultants, he’d decided that he needed to investigate the issue himself. “I have no education or training to do anything else. Mayuka Mori, the COO, jumped in.