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

HR Digest

The tipping point in all the organizations I work with who are serious about gender balance is when it becomes a leadership and management priority and is part of leaders’ own performance evaluations and accountability. The best ones are upskilling their leaders and managers to manage flexible and virtual teams. This isn’t new.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Reserved your spot? You can learn more in FE News.

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BPM should focus on people, not technology

Chartered Management Institute

This software often allows companies to monitor process performance and implement changes in real-time, a stark contrast to days of yore when managers would have to wait until the end of the week or month to see how changes had performed. Complexity is much more manageable. You can target early adopters.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. As with the markets it had entered earlier, the company launched a service targeted at early adopters, and then iterated quickly to add features to attract a wider audience. Yet the majority of Prime subscribers are in the U.S.,

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business Review

and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. As with the markets it had entered earlier, the company launched a service targeted at early adopters, and then iterated quickly to add features to attract a wider audience. Yet the majority of Prime subscribers are in the U.S.,

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Why We Don’t Trust Driverless Cars — Even When We Should

Harvard Business Review

Yet, there are important ways in which product recommendations, investment management and driverless cars are different. These early adopters work out the kinks and make the technology understandable to the general public. Of course, most technological advances are first embraced by the scientific and technological elite.

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Like It or Not, You Are Always Leading by Example

Harvard Business Review

How talent management is changing. A senior project manager cited the highly public immediate dismissal of a direct report who had fudged a quality control audit and then lied about it. A founder/entrepreneur immediately pointed to promoting the college drop-out into a senior management position over an MBA. Insight Center.