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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

We learn three times more from failure than from success. 7 Degrees of Failure… Plateaus in the Learning Curve. ” Beginning to learn better approaches by analyzing the wrong ways of doing things. The longer that success takes to attain has a direct relationship to how long we will hold onto it.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

You must choose to get off the sideline and into the game, then you must choose to endure the learning curve, and finally you must choose to deploy the needed resources to be successful. If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part.

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Stop Micromanaging and Learn to Delegate

Harvard Business Review

You've gotten feedback from your manager as well as word of rumblings within your team: You're seen as a micromanager who tends to get into the weeds — and stay there. You produce great results but senior management sees you as an operational manager and questions your ability to let go and operate at a strategic level.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

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Executives Fail to Execute Strategy Because They’re Too Internally Focused

Harvard Business Review

Their focus is pulled toward internal issues: resolving conflicts, reconciling budgets, and managing performance. In successfully executing companies, 77% effectively translate their strategy into operational mechanisms and monitor day-to-day progress. For many leaders, the taxing nature of enterprise-level leadership is too great.

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What to Do When Your Peer Becomes Your Boss

Harvard Business Review

In other words, how do you manage up to someone who’s just jumped a level above you and who might’ve been a friend? In some ways, you’ll have to treat your new boss like you would a manager you’ve never met before , says Michael Watkins, author of The First 90 Days. Does your relationship need to change?