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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

I had the opportunity to speak with Charles Conn and Robert McLean, two McKinsey alums who share a seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry. 2: Disaggregate. What do leadership teams most struggle with in the new environment? New Skills Required. 1: Define the problem.

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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working. Since 2002, Chevron reports a 68 percent increase in the number of women and minorities in senior leadership and executive positions. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Chevron continues to make great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I).

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

Developments in machine learning, powered by scalable computing resources in the cloud and heavy investment in exceptional human talent by the large players in the IT industry, are making computers capable of recognizing patterns and understanding meaning in big data in a cunningly human-like way.

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Why Your Salespeople Are Pushovers

Harvard Business Review

Its conclusions are based on data from a global study of more than 6,000 sales reps across nearly 100 companies in multiple industries. In ongoing efforts to differentiate their companies, virtually every leadership team has exhorted their team to "put the customer first," or "place the customer at the center of everything we do."

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Top managers in disrupted industries increasingly find this question less rhetorical than newly fundamental. Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership.

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Why You Should Let a 5-Year Old Design Your Next Product

Harvard Business Review

In the Industrial Era, becoming an "inventor" meant you also had to create an organization that could produce, market, and sell your invention. This five-year old is able to be the inventor without also creating a company because of a product innovation company called Quirky. Thus, it''s been a hard gig to crack.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.