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Best Business Books 2018: Strategy

Strategy+Business

In Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life, Francesca Gino, a behavioral scientist and Harvard professor, upends the conventional wisdom on dealing with people who have difficulty adhering to norms. And these key questions are answered with clarity and verve in this year's best business books on strategy.

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New Research Shows How Employees Feel When Their Requests for Raises Are Denied

Harvard Business

We surveyed more than 160,000 workers between November 2017 and April 2018 as part of our PayScale Raise Anatomy study , which resulted in two major findings. ” Instead of relying heavily on performance metrics, ensure that every raise request prompts a look at market data for the given position.

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How will AI transform strategic planning?

Tom Spencer

At the CES 2018 held in Las Vegas, Steve Koenig , Senior Director of Market Research at Consumer Technology Association, presented on tech trends to watch. Outlining the big picture, he described 2018 as the beginning of the “ data era of consumer tech”, with the heralds of that coming age being 5G, AI, and AR.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

Doug embraced this idea and, in turn, explained how his company was using metrics and working group meetings to compel tangible advances in each inspection area. On January 21, 2018, the teams faced off against each other in their Conference Championship. We were well served by all this collaboration.

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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics. Organizational Talent Consulting. A blind passion for results damages a leader's reputation and the organization. Harvard Business Review. McMahon, M.C., Gonzalez, R.,

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How to Set More-Realistic Growth Targets

Harvard Business

Note that the table implicitly projects limited investment and a slow start to the new growth initiatives, with no new revenues in 2017, modest new revenues in 2018, and significant new revenues really only beginning in 2020 and 2021. The metrics need to change. Maximum resources are needed early on. And all of this takes resources.

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Bringing Selfless Love Into The Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

link] How you can love those you lead The answer for bringing selfless love into the workplace is not hiding in metrics or data within the business- but in your routine practices, you perform automatically in your daily life. A traditional transactional leadership style adopts a top-down view of an organization with the leader on the top.

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