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Help Your Global Talent Succeed and Lead - Cultivate Communication Skills

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Nancy Vason: As leaders of global businesses, you draw from a deep well of talent. According to the Harvard Business Review , English is now the global language of business, and more and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language. Are they leading global teams?

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Winners Are Born In Difficult Times

Tanveer Naseer

Last year I spent some time speaking with a senior HR director in a large, global FMCG company that illustrates the problem well. Diverse Team that Challenges You Diversity is no longer about simply sitting on cross-functional teams. Change requires diversity of thought.

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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business Review

Influencers are much more than the “Instafamous”: They are diverse individuals with established expertise, expansive platforms, and refined strategies of engaging target audiences and shaping their behavior. For example, consider Dez Blanchfield , whom I interviewed.

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Better Teamwork Through Better Workplace Design

Harvard Business Review

A report (PDF) from Gensler Architecture found that only half of the US workforce feels that their environment empowers them to innovate, while another white paper (PDF) from office design specialist Steelcase found that 70% of workers today waste up to 15 minutes just looking for a space to meet and 24% waste up to half an hour.

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Wild West Days of Social Media Are Over: Time For Some Discipline, Communicators

leaderCommunicator

MIT Sloan Management Review 2012 Social Business Global. For sample competencies, feel free to read our white paper at www.sme-squared.com. Mark Dollins is president of North Star Communications Consulting , bringing three decades of diverse leadership experience to develop communications and marketing talent for his clients.

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How GE Uses Data Visualization to Tell Complex Stories

Harvard Business Review

Stemming from last month''s Insight Center on visualizing data , I spoke with Linda Boff, GE''s executive director of global brand marketing, about the benefits and challenges of this approach. When we released a white paper last fall on the industrial Internet , data visualization was a great way to tell that story.

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Generations Around the Globe

Harvard Business Review

Western generational models cannot be applied broadly to a global workforce. Educational opportunities were a key differentiator for this generation globally. A white paper based on this research is available on my website.