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A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference

Great Results Team Building

In that follow-up zoom call, I try to be as helpful as possible in sharing any data I’ve collected from pre-event surveys or attendee interviews I use to prepare for their event. And your conference’s impact will extend well beyond their session.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Fatal Flaws of Corporate Thinking

Strategy Driven

Others will remain stuck in frames of mind that set themselves up for the next round of defeat or, at best, partial-success. Setting one’s self up for failure. Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. That having an E-mail address or a website makes one an expert on technology. Refusal to hear what is said.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

And so a transformation is a system of systems, all made up of the most complex system of all — people. In one example, a people analytics team at a global CPG company was enlisted to help optimize a financial process that took place monthly in every country subsidiary around the world.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. As a group, the largest U.S. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries

Harvard Business Review

Google has led off the new year by blocking websites that mask their country of origin from showing up on Google News. What these stories underscore is that our digital evolution and our productive use of new technologies rests on how well we can build digital trust. We refer to these parties, respectively, as givers (e.g.

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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business Review

For one thing, political rhetoric has created public tumult about the drivers of middle-class decline: globalization, technology, and immigration’s impact on U.S. To continue to improve, we need benchmarking of employer-reported public data to help identify corporate leaders in diversity. So why has change been so slow?

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Getting to Zero, by Elephant or F-18

Harvard Business Review

After reminding his readers of the triple bottom line concept I introduced back in 1994, he pondered the possibility of aiming for "zero hunger," "zero stunting of children," and "zero food waste.") This makes it almost impossible to benchmark their performance. And then there's the language itself.