Tue.Mar 26, 2024

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Is Your Company’s Data Ready for Generative AI?

Harvard Business Review

While CDOs and data leaders are excited about generative AI, they have much work to do to get ready for it. A recent survey of 334 CDOs and data leaders — and a series of interviews with these executives — reveals that companies have not yet created new data strategies or begun to manage their data in the ways necessary to make generative AI work for them.

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3 Ways to Become a Leader People Love to Follow

Leadership Freak

94% of employees plan to stay at a company when they have a boss they love to follow. WSJ A bad boss makes life miserable. We've all had them. Let's think about become a leader people love to follow.

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When Attending Industry Events, Avoid These Legal Risks

Harvard Business Review

There are plenty of good reasons to attend industry conferences, trade fairs, and other events, but they also present opportunities for the accidental disclosure of sensitive company information or other actions that run afoul of fair-competition regulations. Through their work executive coaching leaders in emerging and traditional technology ecosystems and working with organizations on ethics and compliance challenges, the authors have uncovered several strategies to equip your team to attend i

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my coworkers are obsessed with talking about their kids … and I’m the only childless one here

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work in a small public-facing office of a government agency. Due to some staffing changes in the past few months, my coworkers are now exclusively mothers of young children, with one exception who is the grandmother of young children. I am now the only man and only non-parent in the office.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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To Accelerate Growth, Analyze Your Company Like an Investor

Harvard Business Review

Private equity (PE) firms have a proven approach to identify areas for revenue growth, value creation, and cost reduction: due diligence. But companies rarely use this same approach in the execution of their own growth strategy. This is a missed opportunity. The same due diligence skills and tools can be found in most large companies, but they are usually siloed in the corporate development team — the folks who handle M&A, who rarely have a chance to apply their expertise to a company’s ongoing

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I sent a text about my problem employee to the wrong person

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I find myself in a pickle and am a nervous wreck. I have been a manager for two years and it has not been easy. The manager before me was stepping down and badmouthed me during a staff meeting she held with the employees prior to my arrival. It was hell when I arrived.

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company wants me to tell my current job I’m interviewing with them, telling a former intern to honor time commitments, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Potential job wants me to tell my current job I’m interviewing with them I had an initial phone interview today with one of current company’s vendors. This vendor provides the software that tracks all the manufacturing and inventory activities for the product we make.

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Ten Principles to Keep Our Anger in Check

Michael McKinney

A NGER comes down to a distortion of the self in relation to the world. It is the distorted view that we are the arbitrators of truth and justice. Anger assumes privilege. Anger exercised gives us a jolt of temporary superiority. It is fair to say that there is often much at work and the world at large to legitimately get angry about—when things are not working as we think they should.

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7 Ways to Drive Website Traffic and Leads

Ascend

Let's say you have the best website in the world. Great! Now what? The truth is that a website by itself doesn't offer much value. If you aren't doing anything specific to try and get people there, no one is going to see it.

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Why the Glass Cliff Persists

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with author Sophie Williams on bias that continues to holds women and other underrepresented groups back.

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Change Management 101: A Practical 3 Part Guide

Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement.

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How Executive Functioning Governs Daily Life Activities

BetterUp

Jump to section What is executive function? What is an executive functioning coach? Executive function and ADHD 5 signs you might need an executive functioning coach Executive functioning coaching for kids vs. adults How does executive functioning coaching work?

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[Infographic] Top 10 Leadership Skills for Managers

Niagara Institute

When you step into a people leadership role , one of your first thoughts is: what do I need to be a great manager? While you’ll need to tap into many different skills as a manager, we’ve highlighted (in no particular order) the top 10 skills you’ll want to develop today. In this article, you’ll find the top 10 skills in the infographic, descriptions of each, and a leadership skills for managers PDF to help you develop these critical skills.

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How One Leader Overcame Career-Ending Adversity

Harvard Business Review

How resilience and vulnerability have shaped the leadership of Raymond Jefferson (MBA 2000).

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How to Deal With Passive-Aggressive People: 6 Tips

BetterUp

Jump to section What is passive-aggressive behavior? What are the characteristics of a passive-aggressive person?

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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I was promised a raise for doing a lot more work … and it didn’t come through

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m feeling bamboozled by how my compensation situation has shaken out. I am a non-exempt salaried employee and have been the entire time this all went down. I joined my current company almost two years ago at a salary that was slightly below market for my level of experience and competency.

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33 Self-esteem journal prompts for confidence & self-compassion

BetterUp

Jump to section 5 Benefits of Journaling What Is Self-Esteem? What Is a Self-Esteem Journal?