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They Don’t Get It, Do YOU?

Lead Change Blog

The Combustion Engine. As a manager, it’s your personality and your ability to make decisions that will have a significant impact on whether your employees are engaged at work or not. Set up a consistent rewards program for your people to earn free items of choice, such as travel, merchandise, and charitable donations.

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Are You Building A Business Or A Job?

Tanveer Naseer

As Tanveer writes about leadership and managing employees, I thought I’d share some of the questions I often get asked by business leaders about managing customer expectations, developing their employees and how to involve your team in the process of selling your business when the time comes to put it on the selling block.

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Are You Building A Business Or A Job?

Tanveer Naseer

As Tanveer writes about leadership and managing employees, I thought I’d share some of the questions I often get asked by business leaders about managing customer expectations, developing their employees and how to involve your team in the process of selling your business when the time comes to put it on the selling block.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. One area so far relatively untouched is change management. Academics may not have helped us.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Statistics Tree: Understanding Figures and What They Symbolize, Relating Directly to Your Business Success

Strategy Driven

That 2% includes all the doctors, lawyers, accountants and engineers… those of us who actually advise. 92% of all business mistakes may be attributed to poor management decisions. Employee theft and shoplifting accounting for 15% of the retail cost of merchandise. The average person and organization changes 71% per year.