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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

That was the approach of a national media organization with their January 2nd leading headline story: “If you thought 2022 was bad, wait until you see what 2023 has in store for the economy.” there will never be another war in Europe,” “Social Media? Let’s start the year with a big scary dose of gloom and doom!

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Now, social media and other applications and platforms have enabled everyone—especially customers—to voice their opinions publicly about business decisions and performance as well as the organization’s products and services. She is the 2015-17 President of the New York City chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO).

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. .” It was the right thing to do.

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Why Higher Ed and Business Need to Work Together

Harvard Business Review

There are jobs today that didn’t exist 10 years ago — data scientist, social media manager, app developer — and in five more, there will be new roles with new requirements that don’t exist now. Over the past decade, business has changed dramatically. As a result, workforce skills and requirements have also changed.

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Research: Activist Investors Are More Likely to Target Female CEOs

Harvard Business Review

And likening activists to those “playing fantasy football” as opposed to “actually playing the field,” Irene Rosenfeld, former CEO of snack-food giant Mondelez, noted in 2015 that “ advising others to act in a certain way doesn’t seem hard for people who don’t have to do it themselves.”

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What We Can Learn About Resilience from Female Leaders of the UN

Harvard Business Review

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. Due to the magnitude of the disaster, international media attention was extensive. The compound she lived in took frequent rocket fire.

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The Big Picture of Business- When the Rules Don’t Fit the Game, Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth

Strategy Driven

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. The addictive organization does communicate directly with the news media and often adopts a 'no comment' policy. The entity is outwardly one big happy family.