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4 Reasons Why Managers Fail

Harvard Business Review

Gartner research has found that managers today are accountable for 51% more responsibilities than they can effectively manage — and they’re starting to buckle under the pressure: 54% are suffering from work-induced stress and fatigue, and 44% are struggling to provide personalized support to their direct reports.

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How to Make Tough Decisions as a Manager

Harvard Business Review

There’s no formula for the difficult moments managers face, but there are questions you should consider.

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How to Gracefully Decline a Promotion

Harvard Business Review

How can you decline a promotion without making things awkward? In this article, the author shares advice from two experts on how to navigate this complicated situation. You could ask about adjustments like managing fewer direct reports or increased flexibility if the promotion requires a greater in-office presence.

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How to Become a Better Manager

Harvard Business Review

Sundial co-founder Julie Zhuo takes questions from listeners who are struggling to manage team dynamics.

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How to Build Data Experiences for End Users

Organizational data literacy is regularly addressed, but it’s uncommon for product managers to consider users’ data literacy levels when building products. Product managers need to research and recognize their end users' data literacy when building an application with analytic features.

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How to Give Bad News

Destination Innovation

Sooner or later every senior manager has to give bad news to their team. This is never easy – especially if it involves laying off some of the people that you have recruited and managed. The post How to Give Bad News appeared first on Destination Innovation. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

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How to Share and Manage Knowledge for Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Knowledge sharing and innovation In the 1970s, Walker’s Wagon Wheel Tavern sealed its role in innovation history. Its name perfectly captured what took place there – like spokes on a wheel, people converged and the air was full of conversation on a Friday night. Ideas flew around, many of which crashed and burned.

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How to Find and Test Assumptions in Product Development

Watch this webinar with Laura Klein, product manager and author of Build Better Products, to learn how to spot the unconscious assumptions which you’re basing decisions on and guidelines for validating (or invalidating) your ideas. Assumptions mapping is the process of identifying and testing your riskiest ideas.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value. In this webinar they will teach you: 3 principles that allow Design and Product Management to work together more effectively.

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Pressure Points: How to Ensure Your B2B Pipeline Passes Inspection

This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement.

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How To Design Your Next Roadmap with Data-Driven Pit Stops Masterclass

Speaker: Sonia Singhal, Product Manager at eBay

Sonia Singhal, Product Manager at eBay, knows just how to help you generate value from your data. In this webinar you will learn: How data-driven decisions can empower self-sufficiency. How to create your next data-driven roadmap. How to create your next data-driven roadmap.

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

The promise of a CRM ( customer relationship management ) led organizations to believe each could digitally transform its businesses through tracking touchpoints throughout the buyer’s journey. It’s no secret, only 13% of salespeople are satisfied with their CRM.

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Why B2B Contact and Account Data Management Is Critical to Your ROI

Download this eBook and gain an understanding of the impact of data management on your company’s ROI. How data impacts your organization as a whole. The best ways to learn how to achieve clean, consistent data. You'll learn about: The true cost of bad (and good) data.

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Embedding Operational Reports: Everything Product Managers Should Know

Speaker: Dean Yao, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Logi Analytics

How to use features like pixel-perfect formatting and banded layouts. World-class software teams are embedding operational reports to empower end users with interactive data visualizations, detailed information, and highly precise formats that can be shared via email, PDF, print, or online.

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Never Miss an Opportunity: How ISO 56000 Enables an Innovative Organization

Speaker: Peter Merrill, President, Quest Management Inc.

In addition, companies who are serial innovators are using a system approach and manage innovation to continuously generate new ideas. A system approach to innovation is without doubt the best approach and innovation management is becoming the price of entry to the business world. A Project Plan for IMS initiation.