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Preview Thursday – Humble Leadership

Lead Change Blog

The following is an excerpt from Humble Leadership:The Power of Relationships, Openness and Trust by Ed & Peter Schein. Organizations around the world are struggling with the increasing rate of change, the degree of global interconnectedness, multiculturalism, and the pace of technological advances. Climate change is accelerating.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

These relationships affect a lot of different factors, from employee satisfaction to their productivity within the workplace. They imply the presence of a psychological contract or an informal, unwritten commitment in the employer-employee relationship, a concept that was earlier defined by Schein (1988).

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How Digital Natives Are Changing B2B Purchasing

Harvard Business Review

But along with fax machines and long golf games, these features of B2B life have all but disappeared due to the astonishing change in technology over the past two decades. And about half of all B2B product researchers are digital natives, a number that increases every year, according to a Google/Millward Brown digital survey of buyers.

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If Your Data Is Bad, Your Machine Learning Tools Are Useless

Harvard Business Review

Alan Schein Photography/Getty Images. Consider an organization seeking productivity gains with its machine learning program. This in turns subverts the hoped-for productivity gains. Poor data quality is enemy number one to the widespread, profitable use of machine learning. Watson) to cancer treatment.

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