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They Don’t Get It, Do YOU?

Lead Change Blog

The Combustion Engine. Set up a consistent rewards program for your people to earn free items of choice, such as travel, merchandise, and charitable donations. We use science every day to save lives, invent revolutionary products and services that change the world. The Compass. The Printing Press. The Telephone. The Light Bulb.

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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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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail. Its key innovation was from the 1980s: a fast-fashion design, production, and replenishment process that brought more new merchandise into stores, faster.

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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. These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis.

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Etsy's Hackathon for Good

Harvard Business Review

The company is doing pretty well: it has over 800,000 active sellers and a 15 million-person marketplace across 150 countries, and last year its gross merchandise sales reached $525 million. For Etsy's leadership, this was an opportunity to engage their entire team by giving them ownership of how to make Etsy better.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. “The machine learning model is not a static piece of code  —  you’re constantly feeding it data,” says one Google engineer. It’s a different kind of engineering.”