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Front Line Leadership: The Keys To Managing Millenials, Part 1

Terry Starbucker

Like the generations preceding them, Millennials are products of the major events and technologies that became widespread during their formative years. Admittedly, the sampled demographic is younger than Generation Y, though the same trend is found within the Millennials. Millennials must feel significant in their role.

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Audience Mind-Meld: Real-Time Data Makes It Possible

Strategy Driven

There is a way to find out what audiences are thinking in real time: Audience response technology. Polling technology can allow presenters to embed questions directly into a PowerPoint presentation and enable audiences to respond using keypads or smartphones. About the Author. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Guide To Employee Name Badges

Strategy Driven

Nevertheless, with the advancements in technology and design, this is a notion that is largely no longer shared. When seeking a company providing name badges you need to find a company who offers you a free sample or at least allows you to order one badge without needing to buy in bulk.

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Your Boss Won’t Say Yes If Emotions Are Running High

Harvard Business Review

He wanted to sell his boss, the GM, on a safer and cheaper gas-scrubbing technology. So the engineering manager was careful to preempt any defensiveness by pointing out in a presentation to senior executives that user reviews of the new technology hadn’t been available when that decision was made.

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What Happens When an Interim CEO Takes Over?

Harvard Business Review

The researchers interviewed three former interim CEOs and conclude that they focus their “attention on short-term, tactical crisis management.” In the researchers’ sample, interims were more likely to be older than the executives they replaced. Dorsey is 13 years Costolo’s junior.

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

Harvard Business Review

But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. This is a management failure, not a technological problem. Information & technology Managing uncertainty Risk management'

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Unconventional Ways to Sell Your Innovative Idea

Harvard Business Review

His philanthropically active wife was happy to use their technology to customize candy for her charity fundraising. How irritated or upset would you be if your spouse was given a prototype or innovation sample to play with by one of your more enthusiastic employees? Do tactics like these inhabit an ethical gray area?