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E-Coaching Roles

Marshall Goldsmith

Many e-learning organizations try to transfer traditional learning methods (classroom training or video) directly into e-learning. Many e-learning tools for leaders are poorly designed. For example, some leaders may need to change behavior; others may need functional training in marketing or finance.

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The Shape of the Meaning Organization

Harvard Business Review

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Corporate Learning Programs Need to Consider Context, Not Just Skills

Harvard Business Review

Despite the amount they invest in corporate learning, organizations continue to struggle to connect these programs with the day-to-day work of strategy execution. Learning departments are frequently part of the problem. Like many parts of large organizations, they are captive to a rich and debilitating status quo.

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How to Protect Your Organization From the Amazon of Your Industry

Strategy Driven

If you own, lead, or manage an organization, acknowledge that the primary task of any business is the generation of new customers. You cannot outsource marketing, or it will put your company in a position to finance the organization that will one day put you out of business. Take care of the parasite when it is a pest.

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Don't Read Infographics When You're Feeling Anxious

Harvard Business Review

Positive affect arouses curiosity, engages creativity, and makes the brain into an effective learning organism," allowing for a less-focused and broader view of the situation. Recently published research from Ph.D. What does this mean for companies designing data visualization tools and environments?

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An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business Review

In Silicon Valley, what was critical was the decentralized network of intelligent public organizations that facilitated feedback loops throughout the whole innovation chain. This includes basic research, applied research, and downstream patient and strategic long-term finance to companies. Second, organizations.