Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Behavior change is hard, but it’s a skill leaders who want to succeed amid near-constant organizational change need to develop. By increasing their self-awareness, committing to change, overcoming limiting thoughts, and deliberately practicing new behaviors, leaders raise the likelihood that the change initiatives they’re tasked to lead will be successful.

Change 145

Change Learning Strategy Strategy 145

Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

GUEST POST from David Burkus Employee engagement has been a hot topic for several decades. And for good reason. Business teams with highly engaged employees have a 59 percent lower turnover rate than those with less engaged staff. Highly engaged teams are 17 percent more productive. Engaged teams receive 10 percent higher customer reviews.

Engagement 110

Engagement Leadership 110

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Leaders today know that they need to be agile — to change direction quickly in the face of changing or uncertain conditions. But a byproduct of agility is churn: The confusion and demotivation that comes from many such pivots. This can cause inefficiency that bogs down innovative projects and strategies. The author advises that leaders instead set and communicate an unchanging overarching goal, while allowing that how they achieve that goal can and will change over time.

Agile 132

Agile How To Project Change 132

Flying Fish Lab

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

As we’ve mentioned, Category Expertise is what enables you to make things happen. It’s the knowledge of what works and what doesn’t, which enables teams to focus on driving viable solutions. At FFL we leverage our clients’ category expertise in a few ways, and we often have a particularly strong focus on it at the start and the end of a project. At the start of every project, while we try not to “drink too much from the same fountain” as the client, there’s fundamental knowledge that is required

Disruption 104

Disruption Project Engagement Strategy 104

Advertisement

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

Artificial Inteligence

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In China, content-based platforms are generating a growing proportion of e-commerce, presenting a growing threat to established platforms like Alibaba and JD.com. In this model, consumers buy products during their engagement with the content provider. Managing the platform to generate sales, therefore, is about enabling the right content to reach the right viewers.

Trends 130

Trends Engagement Management Marketing 130

Daniel Burrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We have all heard that the key to becoming a successful business is effective communication and collaboration, but do we really know what that means? Unfortunately for many business leaders, they believe they do. But the reality is they actually struggle with the concept. Back in 2013, the CEO of Yahoo! announced via memo that employees would no longer be able to work remotely and must come back into the office from Monday through Friday.

Collaboration 90

Collaboration System Trends Disruption 90

InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key Strategy: Facilitating Genuine Employee InvolvementExcerpted from the book: Idea Stormers, How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs (Wiley Jossey-Bass) by Bryan Mattimore There is no tougher organizational challenge than changing a culture. Just ask any CEO or company president. Even the most powerful executive can feel surprisingly powerless when it comes to changing [.

Culture 81

Culture Creativity Change Strategy 81

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Learn to challenge your employees more directly, while also communicating empathy.

Learning 119

Learning Leadership 119

Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Planview Vision Awards are given out annually to a select few Planview customers to recognize our customers’ success, hard work, and future goals with our solutions. We are thrilled to acknowledge a handful of forward-looking organizations that have excelled at achieving their strategic goals by leveraging Planview’s solutions. We also use this opportunity to recognize customers who challenge Planview to build better products and provide better service, leading to improved collaboration whil

Agile 59

Agile Technical Review Collaboration Project 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

How to get started with networking.

How To 123

How To Management 123

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.

Data

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Sponsor content from Unisys.

Engagement 120

Engagement 120