Thu.Sep 21, 2023

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Why Is It So Hard to Leave a Bad Job?

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve ever been in an unhealthy work situation, you probably know how hard it can be to leave. Leaving a bad job is never easy, and each person’s breaking point is different, so beating yourself up over why you stayed so long in a traumatic situation won’t help. But learning from each experience will empower you to own your career choices and leave earlier if you find yourself in a comparable situation again.

Strategy 133
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The Energy Transition is a crazy pitching evolving business need.

Innovating4Energy

The Energy Transition is probably the most challenging undertaking we need to take in a short time frame of thirty years. to give our planet the chance to regain balance for us to live in and protect what we have To get there, we will need to chase a crazy business of existing, competing businesses, all vested in how we do things, to gain their attention and convince them of a sense of urgency and need for a rapid change from the existing to a preferred.

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Research: Consumers Choose Shared Experiences Over Quality Ones

Harvard Business Review

Some consumer experiences are best when they’re solo — but new research shows that people will forgo a high-quality experience in order to share it with a partner or loved one. As a result, they may have a worse time, which can lead to unsatisfied consumers, lower sales, and neglected business opportunities. This article explains why people tend to stick together, even when it isn’t necessarily beneficial, and outlines several ways marketers can encourage people to break apart (even briefly) in

Marketing 125
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AI Actually Leads to Increased Customer Experience Employment

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken That title is a bold statement in a world where AI, ChatGPT and other technologies are doing many tasks that employees have typically performed. Sometimes, the technologies perform even better.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How Smaller Manufacturers Can Upgrade Their Tech

Harvard Business Review

It is an opportune time for SME manufacturers to upgrade their operations by investing in new software and manufacturing innovations. The reasons include pressures on OEMs to build more resilient supply chains and to regionalize production and the falling cost and increasing ease of use of new technologies. This article describes six steps that SMEs can take to adopt these technologies.

Software 108
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Remembering Chris Burnham, Answering Questions From His Lean Leadership Podcast

Kainexus

The lean community recently lost a brilliant mind and a warm heart, Chris Burnham. His sudden passing left a significant void that is still hard to come to terms with. Today, we want to pay tribute to Chris and celebrate his life and the profound impact he had on our company and our community. Chris was a kind and insightful lean thinker and a *Lean Leadership Podcast* host, where he shared his passion for lean principles with a broader audience.

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Thursday Theory Tips- Disruption, a theory of competition

Christensen Institute

Disruptive innovation is commonly misunderstood. Just watch “ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ” to hear one of the main characters, Miles Bron, get the definition of “true disruption” really, really wrong. Thankfully (spoiler alert), he was the villain, so we’ll move past it and be the heroes of the story, by doing a mini dive into what true disruption really is.

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How Growth-Focused Organizations Can Meet the Needs of a Shifting Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SAP

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor Content from SAP.

Meeting 103
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REIMAGINING DISCIPLINE

Idea Champions

Soon after launching my new online course on the creative process, I began talking with the people who enrolled. I was curious to learn, from their perspective, what kind of obstacles they were facing -- the "stuff" that got in the way of manifesting their own creativity. No matter how different the people I spoke to, how unique their background, experience, accomplishments, gender, world view, or astrological signs, they all said the same thing -- what I later came to refer to as the "D" word.

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Video Quick Take: SAP’s Aaron Green on Building the Brightest Talent Pools in the Tightest Labor Market - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SAP

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor Content from SAP.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.