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Competing in the Age of AI

Leading Blog

The authors provide case studies from the travel industry to the retail, entertainment, and automotive industries. And when businesses with a digital foundation collide with more traditional firms, they can completely transform and reshape that industry. They describe the journey to becoming an AI business.

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What I Wish I Knew as a CEO That I Learned Later in HR

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

1. Spend more time on making recruitment a core competency in the entire organisation. When not traveling, Les and his wife reside in the French Bordeaux countryside. Here are some of the key lessons that I learned while running the HR Organisation that would have helped me when I had been a CEO.

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Practicing Patience and Faith

Persuasive Powerhouse

On Sunday, I took 75 pictures; because of a light wind and the sun’s travels across the sky, perhaps five of those were true &# keepers&#. The movement of the sun as I’m waiting for the wind to die down can change the perfect shadows on the object I’m capturing, sending it into darkness, rendering the shot useless.

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Is Your Heart the Boss of You? | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

In addition, there is evidence that some sensory information is sent directly to the heart before it even travels to the brain. Research is showing that the heart can learn and send out dopamine (a pleasure chemical that influences behavior) and oxytocin (a chemical associated with the feeling of love).

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Let Them See You as Human

Persuasive Powerhouse

The women (admins were all women at one time) began talking about how difficult it was to find good child care, and how they had to travel great distances sometimes to find it. This greatly extended commute times to work. The executive VP asked, “Why don’t you just hire a live in nanny like I have?

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Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

If your startup spends a lot on office design or executive first-class travel, consider the impression on your staff. What is your business’ core competence? How will your employees react to spending patterns? If the paintings on the walls are worth more than their annual salaries, they may see themselves as low priority.

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Cisco's Flip Flop and (Mis)Managing the Obvious

Harvard Business Review

Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. This "obvious" enhancement would be consistent with gmail's business model, as well; it's easy to imagine selling advertising against lunch dates, travel dates and business meetings.). Smartphones were becoming smarter.