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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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Change the World With a Keystone Change

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell On December 31st, 1929, the Indian National Congress, the foremost nationalist group on the subcontinent, issued a Declaration of Purna Swaraj, or complete independence from British rule. It also announced a campaign of civil disobedience, but no one had any idea what form it should take.

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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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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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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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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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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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Bringing GenAI into Your Business Today - SPONSOR CONTENT WEBINAR DATAROBOT

Harvard Business Review

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