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It takes 23 minutes to regain focus after a distraction: Task Switching

Idea to Value

Do you ever get to the end of a working day only to become frustrated that you were unable to complete any of your work? Chances are, you may have become distracted or interrupted at some point. Either from a colleague stopping or sending you a quick message … … or hearing someone talk about some interesting gossip in the background … … quickly opening a web browser to check the news or surf the web … … checking emails and chats … … or even just wo

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How to Manage an Employee Who Always Makes Excuses

Harvard Business Review

If an employee repeatedly fails, one of the reasons is often that they don’t know what showing up would look like. It’s common for managers to shortchange upfront alignment conversations in the name of speed. But that haste can cost you, especially with an unreliable employee. An investment in alignment upfront enables good performance and also provides the framework to address poor performance if it persists.

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Shared Values Key to Achieving the Most Radical Visions

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell With the political season heating up, an increasingly frequent topic of discussion is how radical candidates should be. Some say that the optimal strategy is to be mainstream and court the middle.

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Tackling the Problem of Subscribers Who Binge…Then Bail

Harvard Business Review

Consumers love to binge-watch streaming video. But as the number of streaming services has grown, more subscribers are scrutinizing subscription expenses and deciding to cancel. People who do this too frequently — “serial churners” — pose a special challenge to companies like Netflix. This article presents three ways companies can seek to reduce the problem of serial churn.

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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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Continuous Improvement Tools, Techniques, and Why You Need Them | KaiNexus

Kainexus

Continuous improvement is an ongoing effort to enhance processes, products, services, and overall business performance. It is a systematic approach focusing on making incremental, positive changes to achieve better results over time. Continuous improvement drives business growth, fosters innovation, engages employees, satisfies customers, and mitigates risks.

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Research: Why Managers Deny Inequity in Their Own Organizations

Harvard Business Review

All too often, managers deny the existence of inequities at their organizations and, as a result, resist implementing diversity initiatives there. There are two standard explanations for this behavior: Managers resist because they’re part of privileged demographic groups whose power is threatened by the initiatives, or because they’re ideologically opposed to them.

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AI: Transforming, Not Eliminating, the Jobscape for those who Embrace the Future

Tullio Siragusa

AI: Transforming, Not Eliminating, the Jobscape for those who Embrace the Future As we stand on the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation technology are transforming our world. The ensuing fear that AI will replace humans in the workplace is rife. However, the narrative should not be about AI replacing jobs, but rather reshaping them.

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Women Who Are Making Work Better for Women

Harvard Business Review

How Myra, Stephanie, and Becky widened options, networks, and benefits at their companies.

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Driving Product Development with Data: Harnessing Analytics for Insight and Innovation

helloFUTURE

In today’s increasingly digital world, data is the new gold. Every click, every swipe, and every interaction generates valuable information that, when harnessed correctly, can offer deep insights and drive innovation. In product development, data and analytics can be a game-changer. They enable companies to understand customer behavior, validate assumptions, measure success, and drive decision-making.

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Overcome Innovation Lethargy – Teach the World to Fish

Innovation 360 Group

Five factors to enhance professionalism in innovation management, avoiding Innovation Lethargy reaching the results you looking for The post Overcome Innovation Lethargy – Teach the World to Fish appeared first on Innovation360.

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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.

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5 Advantages of Fun Strategic Planning for Small Business Leaders

BrainZooming

With custom Brainzooming strategy engagements , we invariably target companies with audiences (whether employees, customers, or other stakeholders) of significant size. That’s because they’ll experience the greatest impact from our collaborative strategy approach through dramatically increasing engagement and reducing strategy planning time by up to 80%.

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Why Impact Venture Funds Under-Perform

Collectivecamp

The heightened focus on ESG has sparked the growth of impact venture funds, providing a fresh capital avenue for social enterprises. Usually managed by large organizations and nonprofits, they differ from standard VCs in numerous ways, optimizing for social and environmental goals as well as financial returns chief among them. However, navigating venture is challenging, a reality that’s dawning on many impact venture funds.

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Do Leaders Know What Employees Really, Really Want?

Michael Roberto

Source: www.lovetoknow.com Fortune's Phil Wahba has written an intriguing article titled , "Too many CEOs don’t know what their workers need. Employee ‘engagement’ surveys can make the problem even worse." Wahba starts by giving an interesting example from Starbucks. He points out that former CEO Howard Schultz often took great pride in the tuition assistance program offered to company employees.

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