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Failure - learning or leavening?

Jeffrey Phillips

Most learning is based on trying and failing and having the willingness to try again and to learn. Without failure, the individual or the company is not trying hard enough and certainly isn't learning. It took people who were willing to try, to learn, to adapt and who weren't bound by the existing norms to make the idea work.

Learning 157
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Learned Helplessness in creativity

Idea to Value

It all has to do with a psychological condition known as learned helplessness. This is the condition where is someone (human or also animal) is put through a negative situation which they cannot control for so long, that they learn there is no point in fighting it anymore, even if later on they are shown a way to stop the negative effects.

Learning 222
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How to Keep Learning at Work — Even When You Feel Fried

Harvard Business Review

Continuous learning is the key to having lasting influence in your career, yet a heavy workload makes it hard to find the time.

Learning 133
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The Case for College in the Era of Online Learning

Harvard Business Review

Does pursuing a college education still make sense in the age of online learning and AI — when we have access to information for free via the internet? The problem with this question is that it frames college as an information gatekeeper, misunderstanding much of its value.

Learning 138
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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Learning to Delegate as a First-Time Manager

Harvard Business Review

Learning how to delegate well is a skill every first-time manager needs to learn from the very start. Many people are promoted into management for doing their previous job well. But once you’re promoted into a leadership role, you must accept that you can’t do everything on your own — nor should you.

Learning 144
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Why Unlearning Is At Least As Important As Learning

Digital Tonto

I had some experience selling national radio time in New York and thought I could teach the Poles who, after 50 years of communism, hadn’t had much opportunity to learn how a modern ad market functioned. When I thought about it though, many of the things I had learned as immutable laws were merely conventions that had built up over time.

Learning 217
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Dont Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Register today!

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape is Making Hiring More Difficult

Download today to learn more! After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future.

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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. You'll learn: Why every product leader goes into a new project with untested, hidden assumptions.

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Learn how you can quickly improve that success rate. During this webinar, you will learn the following: What is digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation? 70% of most digital transformation projects fail. In short, to basically transform the way a company makes money and delivers value to customers.

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Bringing the Cybersecurity Imperative Into Focus

Download today to learn more! This whitepaper provides insights from over 1,000 tech leaders on how to stay secure and attract top cybersecurity talent, all while doing more with less.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role. . 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

You’ll Learn: How businesses drive revenue with analytics How organizations save on development costs and resources How embedded analytics compares to traditional BI platforms and similar tools Download this white paper and learn how embedded analytics is a force multiplier for business across many industries.