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“No idea” Means I Have One :: Women on Business

Women on Business

When you do, please tell him my goal is not to point fingers—what I’m after is a better understanding of the situation.” (Note, please: don’t, then, point fingers. Sample Script: Making it Conscious, Not Confrontational The set up: You and your team are working together on a presentation that’s due in less than twenty-four hours.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Investigate those doing what you want to do.

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Is Anyone Really Responsible for Your Company's Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. In this latest report, based on a larger-than-ever sample, 29% of breaches involved social tactics like getting employees to click on fake emails (phishing). Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Not a pleasant experience.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business Review

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. “Ahmed has promised samples for the new line on the Clarkson account, but his order exceeds the limits accounting set, so we need Damon’s signoff, and he won’t give it.”

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Hitting The Intergenerational Sweet Spot

Harvard Business Review

There''s no hotter topic in human resource management at present than how to manage Millennials (aka Generation Y), the age 30-and-under members of the workforce. Millennials are the "kids nowadays!" that managers from previous generations fret about. The source of the quote? A letter published in The Atlantic in 1911.

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America’s Loneliest Workers, According to Research

Harvard Business Review

For our survey of 1,624 full-time employees, all participants in a longitudinal study of 4,000 American workers, our goals were two-fold: First, to identify those employees most at risk for feeling lonely at work; and second, to identify key drivers that maximize the benefits of increased social cohesion among employees. .”

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5 Positions Companies Need To Navigate Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

This shift from the current Programmatic Era to the new AI Era will be transformative and disrupt companies and entire markets. A retail cognitive assistant is a sample Cognitive/AI application. To accomplish this, AI/Cognitive solutions will require entirely new skill sets and job descriptions.