Thu.Jun 29, 2023

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How Managers Can Make Time for Their Own Development

Harvard Business Review

Managers today must balance their day-to-day work with multiple “ands,” such as delivering on quarterly objectives and thinking strategically. Given these numerous demands, managers tend to deprioritize their own career development. It doesn’t have to be that way. The more managers take control of their development, the better able they’ll be to avoid the common career mistakes that will get in the way of their growth.

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Growing Your Business with Customer Obsession

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken A 21-year-old college senior and his roommate started a business that stored students’ belongings over the summer. They rented a warehouse and hired a local trucking company to pick up items at the dorms and take them to the warehouse to store for the summer.

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3 Ways to Nail Your Presentation to the Board

Harvard Business Review

The boardroom is a distinct forum that requires a different type of presentation and preparation. In this article, the author outlines three practices every business leader should embrace to enhance their board presentations: 1) Start with a governing thesis: a big idea or perspective that captures the main point of the discussion. Presentations that start this way leave the audience with a compelling message. 2) Understand that the CEO is not the target audience.

Course 98
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Platypus webinar

Qmarkets

When seeking innovation outside of your organization, it’s important to monitor all potential sources that can impact your business. In this session we will share how you can use the Qmarkets platform to create a holistic process that includes the research, management, and commercialization of all innovation opportunities that are available to you.

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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 to Make Leadership Positions More Enticing to Primary Care Physicians

Harvard Business Review

Primary care in the US is being pushed to the brink of collapse due to historic highs of physician stress, burnout, and exhaustion; mass departures from the profession; and the inability to care for vulnerable populations due to an inequitable health system. These problems are compounded due to a lack of effective advocacy to improve primary care on a national scale and a reimbursement system that chips away at time with patients while keeping primary care physicians (PCPs) on a volume-based ham

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Rapid Experimentation: The Fast Track to Overcoming Uncertainty

Moves the Needle

In the complexity of the globally-connected digital world, uncertainties and the assumptions on how to overcome them, hinder organizations from achieving their objectives. Enter rapid experimentation – a dynamic process that allows businesses to test ideas, challenge assumptions, and reduce the risk of failing. Rapid experimentation holds immense value in generating evidence to support decision-making, inform strategies, and propel businesses toward success.

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4 Reasons to Set Time Limits in Meetings

BrainZooming

We time nearly everything during Brainzooming strategy and innovation workshops , spelling out upfront how many minutes we'll have to accomplish a task and what types of output we expect to produce within that window.

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Practice Makes Perfect

Michael Roberto

www.sportscasting.com We all know that great athletes practice intensely in preparation for competitions. As a teenager, I remember reading about the incomparable Larry Bird showing up at the Boston Garden hours before a game and hoisting up hundreds of jump shots, as well as running on the track. For much of my adult life, I read about Tom Brady's maniacal practice habits, beginning when he was a rookie on the training camp fields here at Bryant University, where I serve on the faculty now.

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14 Fresh Ideas for Updating Strategy Plan Implementation

BrainZooming

How can you move a strategic plan forward without the mundane review of each KPI and action step? What fresh approaches exist to review strategy implementation progress and potential revisions as we proceed?