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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Winning organizations now rely on nimble, iterative problem solving, rather than the traditional planning processes. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. 2: Disaggregate. 1: Define the problem.

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

HR Digest

MARC is focused on empowering male executives and leaders to model inclusive behavior, influence more equitable talent management systems and processes, and build effective partnerships across gender. Since 2002, Chevron reports a 68 percent increase in the number of women and minorities in senior leadership and executive positions.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

As business leaders and managers, we have become increasingly capable of engaging a workforce that is some combination of virtual and on site, part time and full time, permanent and contingent. There are currently three technological enablers of work automation: robotic process automation, cognitive automation, and social robotics.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. ” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors.

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Why Your Salespeople Are Pushovers

Harvard Business Review

They know that if they want customers to buy differently, they're first going to have to get them to think differently — and that they may have to get a little scuffed up in the process. Second, most reps adopt a passive posture because senior management has told them to. How would you describe the best reps in your organization?

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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. How talent management is changing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.