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Why The Suckers Always Think They’re Playing It Smart

Digital Tonto

At any given time, there are literally thousands of people looking to fool us. Grifters, politicians and nation states looking to sow discord are constantly bombarding us with falsities mixed with just enough truth to seem plausible. Often, these messages reach us through trusted friends and family members and, when we go to verify them online, we’re likely to find confirmation (often from the same sources that duped our peers).

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The Challenge of Leaving a Long-Term Job to Start Something New

Harvard Business Review

Leaving a company that’s been your professional home for years, or decades, is a major shift that can feel both thrilling and perilous. In this article, the authors outline six challenges that often come up when making this transition: 1) Ruminating and second-guessing; 2) Feeling guilty; 3) Being afraid of losing status; 4) Needing to adapt; 5) Managing the perceptions of your new colleagues; and 6) Balancing opposing emotions.

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London Calling

Innovation Excellence

by Braden Kelley I will be in London attending a reunion soon and have some availability May 15-17, 2024 if anyone would like to book a keynote, workshop, or advisory session while I’m there. Are you looking to build a continuous innovation infrastructure in your organization?

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Bill Belichick on Now vs Next

Stephen Shapiro

In PIVOTAL , I discuss the benefits of focusing on “now” rather than “next. A great story from Bill Belichick , former New England Patriots Head Coach, illustrates this. In 2004, the team broke all records for the longest winning streak in the National Football League history: 21 games in a row. This was an amazing accomplishment, especially in today’s environment of free agents.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Failure happens. What can we learn from it?

Rmukesh Gupta

In this comic drawn by Michael Meier, Sanjay Khosla, a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the Kellogg School, lays out lessons that you can take away from five common leadership failures. Below is the comic strip. Conclusion: In conclusion, I am reminded of something that I once shared with my team: “If you are not making mistakes, you aren’t pushing boundaries and so not growing.

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The U.S. Economy’s Soft Landing Is Still on Track

Harvard Business Review

While there’s been a recent string of disappointing macroeconomic data, in reality, these developments are signs of the U.S. economy’s strengths, not weaknesses. The economic pessimism of the last few years has often been rooted in a misreading of the U.S. consumer. Too often, they are cast as financially squeezed, burning through their pandemic-era savings, and reeling from the real income cut that inflation has inflicted on them.

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Digital Transformation: Revolutionising Business Development and Positioning Strategies

Flying Fish Lab

Business development and positioning strategies provide clear direction and guide decision-making processes that propel business growth. The former involves expanding a business’s customer base, revenue streams, and market reach through activities like identifying new opportunities and nurturing client relationships. Meanwhile, the latter differentiates a business from its competitors by establishing a unique value proposition and a strong brand identity.

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Leveraging Unofficial means of Communication

Rmukesh Gupta

We live in a world where each and every one of us faces a deluge of information and there is a war out there to get and hold our attention. Given this is the case, as leaders, how can we ensure that important communication that our teams need to know is not lost in this deluge? There are a few things that we can do to improve the effectiveness of our communication (more on this here).

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The FTC’s Noncompete Ban Was Long Overdue

Harvard Business Review

The FTC’s new noncompete rule adopts a comprehensive prohibition on the use of noncompete clauses in any U.S. industry with any worker, including those at senior executive levels. The rule is promulgated using the FTC’s authority to determine practices that are unfair methods of competition. For those who have long argued against the use of noncompetes, this moment has been a long time coming.

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Six Causes of Employee Burnout

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from David Burkus There’s this simple misconception when it comes to burnout. We tend to think that burnout comes from just working too hard—putting in too many hours per week, exerting too much energy, and tipping your work-life scale out of balance.

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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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Business Ecosystems are important today

Ecosystems4Innovating

Interconnected Business Ecosystems We live in a world of interconnected Ecosystems. Businesses have been actively working in their own connected ecosystems to suit their own business needs. That needs to change. We need to open up our thinking to collaborative ecosystems. Let’s briefly examine why and what I have been working on as my focus for some time—the need for interconnected business ecosystems.

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How Do I Prove I’m the Right Person for a Different Leadership Role?

Harvard Business Review

A leader must build the influence he needs to transition into a different leadership role.

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Bringing GenAI into Your Business Today - SPONSOR CONTENT WEBINAR DATAROBOT

Harvard Business Review

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