Fri.Sep 22, 2023

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5 Types of Stories Leaders Need to Tell

Harvard Business Review

Storytelling is an important leadership skill, and executives who want to succeed should master five types of narrative: Vision stories, which inspire a shared one; values stories that model the way; action stories that spark progress and change; teaching stories that transmit knowledge and skills to others; and trust stories that help people understand, connect with, and believe in you.

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What Every Leader Should Know About AI Transformation

Faisal Hoque

All its potential aside, there are legitimate dangers to AI. At the heart of the matter is the essential value of a balanced perspective.

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How Software Companies Can Avoid the Trap of Product-Led Growth

Harvard Business Review

Companies like Slack and Dropbox have pioneered the use of Product-Led Growth (PLG). They start by building a product that’s indispensable for small teams, then count on low friction and customer advocates to expand throughout the organization. PLG works, at least at first. But it can create challenges for growing companies. The answer isn’t to reject PLG.

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The Secrets of Seeing What’s Missing

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski With one eye open and the other closed, you have no depth perception. With two eyes open, you see in three dimensions. This ability to see in three dimensions is possible because each eye sees from a unique perspective.

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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 the Food Industry Is Using Cross-Training to Boost Service

Harvard Business Review

Cross-training employees on a variety of tasks can be a powerful tool for improving operations, as well as for attracting and retaining workers. When employees are cross-trained to perform a variety of both customer-facing and non-customer-facing tasks, they can adjust their work depending on demand and business needs. Of course, that’s good for the business, but it also makes the job better for workers.

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If You Want to Be an Industry Leader, Be an Industry Innovator. Here's How to Inspire Innovation in Your Business.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Innovation isn't just about making something new; it's about improving something.

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Registration is Open for This Year’s Innovation Exchange

Innovators Alliance

What’s Keeping You Up at Night? We’re pleased to share that registration is open for this year’s Innovation Exchange, taking place on October 26, 2023. This full-day event promises to be very different from what you’ve experienced in the past. Presenting two business leaders, Peter Hall and Lewis Schiff, who will be engaging with event participants to uncover “What’s keeping you up at night?

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Features to Scale Innovation for Sustainable Business Growth | ITONICS

ITONICS

This article unpacks why a systematic approach to scalability is critical for sustainable business growth, best-practice growth tactics, and the top five features of the ITONICS Innovation Operating System that will help maximize your ability to innovate at scale.

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Web3 Could Change the Business Model of Creative Work

Harvard Business Review

Web3 — the read-write-own web — could offer a new model for creative work. By offering new tools to earn and own assets, build wealth, and wrestle back control from powerful platforms and intermediaries, it has the potential to simplify how creators fund their ventures and new ways to earn a living, not just on the first sale of a work of art but in perpetuity thanks to programmatic royalty streams paid via smart contracts, self-executing code that can move and store money.