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Productivity at Work: How to Lead Highly Productive Teams

Let's Grow Leaders

These initiatives are usually shorter-term and there is a moment when it will be completed. If you have a clear project plan, you may clearly know your short-term objectives. If not, to identify your short-term M.I.T., There may be several of these initiatives and projects for every strategic objective.

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The New Roadmap For Entrepreneurial Success

Eric Jacobson

Rather than writing yet another how-to guide for people wanting to launch a startup, Tom Eisenmann conducted original research on startup failure to better understand startup success. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. Speed Traps. Help Wanted. If so, why?

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on Gender, Generations, and the Workplace of Tomorrow

HR Digest

The HR Digest: You’ve coined the term “20-first,” emphasizing the need for balance in leadership across genders, generations, and nationalities. I’ve had the honor and privilege of spending two decades working with early adopters of the future. This will become more common everywhere and within countries.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. How to close the say-do gap and tap into hidden talent? How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion?

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. It’s kind of like the old model of how people come to terms with terminal illness; they go through those stages of grief. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book.

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Focus On the Customers You Want, Not the Ones You Have

Harvard Business Review

Growing and maintaining the business can be much tougher and figuring out how to appeal to new consumers is no small feat. Different segments have different risk tolerances, ways of making decisions, and — perhaps most challenging for growing businesses — preferences for when and how they adopt innovations.

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Prepare Your Workforce for the Automation Age

Harvard Business Review

Executives must think carefully about how to best match people and machines, bearing in mind that many of the decisions they make today will have a long-tail effect on workforce composition, productivity, and profits for years to come. So early preparation is needed. Think both short term and long term.