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A New Era Begins: Our Strategic Partnership with Zenger Folkman

The Practical Leader

Their foundation program is a strengths-based leadership development system based on their bestselling The Extraordinary Leader book. It’s a big step in our company’s growth and development. He’s one of my leadership development heroes ! There are many reasons we decided to partner with Zenger Folkman.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Great Digital Companies Build Great Recommendation Engines

Harvard Business Review

”We didn’t think a recommendation engine was necessary at the time,” said one of the company’s web developers. Could you ask customers if they want email follow-ups or white papers on products or services they’ve expressed behavioral interest in? It’s now striving to catch up.