Fri.Jan 05, 2024

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The Challenges of Retiring from a High-Powered Job

Harvard Business Review

Each year, thousands of executives retire from long and successful corporate careers. But few are prepared for the journey they are about to embark on. Based on conversations with dozens of highly respected former chief executives, the authors identified seven common mistakes, ranging from not preparing far enough in advance to thinking you can rely on your existing professional network to not realizing that behaviors that worked for you as an executive can work against you in retirement.

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How will you allocate your time differently in 2024?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski I don’t like resolutions, but I do like looking back to assess how spent my time differently over the previous year. Below is a short exercise that could help you get ready for 2024.

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How Calibration Meetings Introduce Bias into Performance Reviews

Harvard Business Review

These meetings, in which supervisors discuss and adjust ratings across the company, are often intended to eradicate bias. In fact, they can have the opposite effect.

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Book Cover Reveal for PIVOTAL

Stephen Shapiro

As we get one step closer to the publication of my seventh book, it is time to reveal its cover. Over the coming weeks, I will be sharing some awesome endorsements the book has received. We are targeting mid-2024 for the book’s release. I hope you like this! The post Book Cover Reveal for PIVOTAL appeared first on Stephen Shapiro.

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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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DEI Is Under Attack. Here’s How Companies Can Mitigate the Legal Risks.

Harvard Business Review

In June 2023, the Supreme Court effectively ended race-based affirmative action in higher education in the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) case. On the heels of that decision, newly empowered activists have brought a barrage of challenges against workplace DEI efforts. When it comes to DEI today, the authors predict that neither side will “win.” Rather, as the law inevitably evolves in a more conservative direction, the new legal standards will be absorbed into the field of DEI, transforming

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How To Make this Year Your Best Year Ever

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: I was invite to deliver a workshop on how to set up your year to be “Your Best Year Ever” recently and here is what I had shared with them in terms of how to think about or approach this task. I believe in order for any year to be our best year ever, it needs to be balanced and see success and growth in all areas of our lives.

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What is Retail Media Advertising and Is it a Fit for My Brand?

Brunner

You’re on amazon.com, checking the product page for one of your brand’s best-selling items. Then you spot it — a competitor’s ad for a similar item, complete with a discount code and free shipping. Exactly how did a rival brand get its ad and special offer in front of an Amazon shopper looking at your product? It’s called retail media advertising, and it’s changing digital advertising to the tune of billions in ad spend from both B2B and B2C brands.