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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

And more recently in New York City where we spent two days with two of the greatest leaders of our time, Frances Hesselbein and Dr. Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, and where they were formally trained in Stakeholder Centered Coaching by Dr. Frank Wagner, Chris Coffey, and Will Linssen. It is time now to announce the second cohort.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Gianpiero Petriglieri – Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD , Director of the Management Acceleration Programme at INSEAD , medical doctor and psychiatrist by training. million times.

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I Joined Airbnb at 52, and Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and the Tech Industry

Harvard Business Review

The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. But I was an “old-school” hotel guy and had never used Airbnb. Sounded good.

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Competing with Platforms That Ignore the Law

Harvard Business Review

Airbnb is similarly alluring — lower prices for more space than most hotel rooms. Meanwhile, Zenefits modernizes human resources workflows with slick software to replace outdated paper. Similarly, Airbnb hosts rarely install the protections required at hotels, such as sprinklers and fire escapes.

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How Employers Can Help Solve the Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Fortunately, American companies have part of the solution for the skills gap right at hand — if they reverse the long-term trend of paring back training. We're creating an internally mobile talent market where there is a natural push and pull for skills," says Matthew Schuyler, Hilton's chief human resources officer.

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Experiment with Organizational Change Before Going All In

Harvard Business Review

Say you introduce an innovative new customer-relationship-management (CRM) tool for your sales force, and revenue increases by 15%. In one project , the group looked for ways to encourage hotel guests to reuse their towels, an environmentally friendly practice that could also save Disney money. The change is a success, right?

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GE’s Culture Challenge After Welch and Immelt

Harvard Business Review

Other times, shifts may be driven by disruptions and disrupters like the one happening in the transportation and hotel markets right now thanks to the likes of Uber and Airbnb. In the first part of this century, innovation became the priority. Managing organizations Change management Human resource management Organizational culture'

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