Fri.Mar 29, 2024

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6 Strategic Concepts That Set High-Performing Companies Apart

Harvard Business Review

Strategic concepts come in and out of fashion as the needs and dynamics of the marketplace change. Research and analysis of today’s landscape identifies six key strategic concepts that set outperforming companies apart: Borrow someone’s road, partner with a third party, reveal your strategy, be good, let the competition go, and adopt small scale attacks.

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Tap the Power of the FORD Method

Leadership Freak

The FORD Method has nothing to do with cars. The FORD Method is about connecting with people. “. the simple phrase small talk can be code for torture.” Susan Cain Here's a simple strategy for building connection with new people. What's your best tip for connecting with new people?

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Customers Prefer to Crowdfund Products They Can Improve

Harvard Business Review

Platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have not only broadened access to funding to companies that might struggle in the capital markets but have also transformed the way companies connect with consumers during product development, replacing focus groups with real customers who have a stake in the final product. Despite crowdfunding’s many benefits, numerous campaigns still fail.

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30 Interview Questions for Managers (With Answers)

BetterUp

Jump to section 3 tips to ace management position interview questions 20 common interview questions for a manager position 10 essential questions for interviewers and hiring managers Lead through your words

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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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Research: Leaders Undervalue Creative Work from AI-Managed Teams

Harvard Business Review

Because of AI’s ability to learn from vast amounts of data and maximize efficiency, companies have predicted that humans working with it will be able to free up their time and expand their creative efforts, thereby driving greater innovation. But, despite the enthusiasm of tech gurus and companies alike, is this really how adopting AI tools will play out?

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How Exposure Therapy Can Help You Confront Your Fears

BetterUp

Jump to section What is exposure therapy? Methods of exposure therapy Exposure therapy benefits What mental health issues can exposure therapy treat? Is exposure therapy effective? Preparing for exposure therapy Can you perform exposure therapy on yourself?

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A Path for C-Suite Parity

Association Now Leadership

Women are still excluded from top leadership positions. Resolving that problem requires some flexibility—and debunking some myths. Despite a lot of hard work on the matter in recent years, gender parity in the C-suite is still a struggle. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of women CEOs at Fortune 500 companies has steadily increased, but still only represent about 10 percent of the total ; on the governance side, women only make up about 30 percent of corporate board members.

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weekend open thread – March 30-31, 2024

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: A Beautiful Rival , by Gill Paul. This is a fictionalized account of the professional rivalry between Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, and I was strangely riveted. * I make a commission if you use that Amazon link.

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Catch Me if You Can

Help Scout Leadership

Much of our support work requires confidence building, yet overconfidence can create poor service. Here's to finding the right balance. Also Isaac Newton is in this.

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AI in Recruitment: Managing the Risks for Successful Adoption

AIHR

AI in recruitment has been one of the key applications of artificial intelligence in HR practices. Almost 3 in 4 companies use AI in their recruitment and hiring processes at least to some extent. With the rise of generative AI, this number is only set to increase. New legislation, such as the EU AI Act and the New York AI Bias law , has drawn attention to AI’s risks to HR.

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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.