Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This article makes five broad recommendations for preparing your workforce for an uncertain future. What we need is not just re-skilling or up-skilling, but pre-skilling: that is, being able to future-proof talent and reinvent peoples’ careers before we even know what tomorrow’s jobs and in-demand skills will be.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Using the end of the summer to reset your approach to development can create new energy for your career. Instead of feeling like another thing to fit in, it can be a new source of motivation that supports everything else you’re trying to do.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Read the article to learn the peculiarities of pharmaceutical project management, the key challenges these projects face, and how you can overcome them with a robust project management tool. Pharmaceutical projects are endeavors related to the drug development process, starting from drug discovery to the final approval of a new medication.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2024

Executives who go through leadership development programs often come back with new energy and purpose, ready to transform their teams, themselves, and their organizations. But it can be challenge to gain traction, sustain momentum, and achieve durable post-program results. Success requires determined effort and patience.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While in a nascent stage, generative AI promises to have a major impact on learning and development. It will personalize learning pathways; continuously update materials; create highly realistic, varied training simulations; identify and address skill gaps; and offer a more interactive and responsive feedback than conventional approaches.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 5, 2024

In this episode, Powerful Business Development For Newer Consulting Firms with Boaz Ashkenazy: Podcast #333 is a post from: Consulting Success He left his executive position at Meta to co-found Simply Augmented, an AI consultancy specializing in solving complex problems using generative AI.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Historically, the challenge with implementing learning and development programs has been the difficulty in quantifying the impacts on organizational performance. Leaders can use an approach called balanced benchmarking, borrowed from operations management, to conduct a needs assessment and apply training where it can be most effective.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

With real-world examples and personal experiences, the authors of this article explain what product management is about, the critical skills a PM needs to have, as well as how to start out and match your strengths to different types of PM roles.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Micro-retailers are vitally important to the economies of developing countries and to consumer packaged goods companies. But their full potential is not being realized. The adoption of digital technologies could help change that. But for that to happen, obstacles must be overcome. Three strategies can address them.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Smart companies are taking proactive steps to support this cohort’s professional development. Many young professionals started their careers during this tumultuous period, interviewing for and starting new jobs in remote environments.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In this article, they discuss three key accountability principles that these directors have brought with them from the military and explain how any board can make use of these principles in overseeing their companys CEO.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2024

Narrowing your niche is an important step in the right direction, but you’ll also want to develop a tagline as part of your branding. See my earlier article for tips.) When you are perceived as an expert, you’ll get more referrals and win more work. A marketing tagline is short phrase that helps people remember you in a certain way.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 24, 2024

When a team member comes to you with a question, instead of providing immediate solutions, you can facilitate the problem-solving process, which can help your team develop judgment and ownership. And you shouldnt feel pressured to have them, either. Its also okay to acknowledge when you dont know something and seek help from others.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Expert advice on what every leader needs to know.

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Epicflow

JULY 5, 2024

In this article, we highlight the top 15 capacity planning tools and offer valuable recommendations to help you select the most suitable one for your business needs. A capacity planning tool is software developed to assist organizations in allocating and managing their resources more effectively.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 28, 2024

For more help with this, including a link to my North Star Template, read this prior article.) Land Your First Project Dont be afraid to take the leap to solopreneurship because youre anxious about having to sell or do business development. This is key for getting referrals.

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Successful Independent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2025

This article was written by Gabrielle Fontaine , PB, ASBC, and the founder of BookkeepingDirect, an accounting and business consulting firm for small businesses. Do business development at least once a week. Schedule timeat least an hour a weekto do marketing and outreach related to business development, even when youre busy.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 12, 2025

This is where custom eLearning development and instructional design consulting come into play – offering tailored, high-impact custom eLearning solutions that align with business objectives and drive performance. Maximizing ROI with custom eLearning solutions is what we’re looking into in this article.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It includes defining AI, identifying relevant harms, designating responders, developing plans to contain the damage in the short term, carrying out a longer-term containment strategy to stop the harm from spreading further, and conducting a post-mortem review. A new playbook is required.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

The July 2024 CrowdStrike incident demonstrates the need to develop capabilities to assess the downstream business impact of cyber events, establish appropriate cyber resiliency objectives, and ensure effective communication for better cyber risk management decisions. million and the number of confirmed data breaches hitting a record high.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2024

Today the workforce is getting older, and the number of younger workers in positions of senior management is growing.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2024

This article makes the case for revamping career development. Internal marketplaces are one valuable way to help employees with career development. And when they do promote people, many employers give them “dry promotions” — more responsibility without more money.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Companies rely on Learning & Development (L&D) programs – especially eLearning – to stay competitive as industries change. However, the actual value of these learning and development programs lies not just in their immediate impact but in their long-term effects on business performance driven by employee learning.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In this article, we list 10 of our favorites from 2024, covering topics like how to develop essential leadership skills, exude gravitas, bolster your presentation style, overcome overthinking and more. Our Management Tip of the Day newsletter continues to be one of HBRs most popular newsletters.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore some of the most common roadblocks for manufacturing project s as well as suggest actionable recommendations for addressing them. Developing flexible plans involves incorporating time and capacity buffers and avoiding strict deterministic project and production schedule s.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2024

In this article, the authors offer three recommendations: 1) Present the alternatives considered and explain why they were not adopted. 3) Involve employees in strategy development. What can leaders do to help employees understand enough context to understand a strategy?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

If you’ve ever developed a product, you’ve almost certainly been derailed by scope creep. In this article, I’ll explain how you can keep your team’s efforts aligned with the genuine needs of your audience. Features multiply, priorities blur, and schedules and budgets suffer.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2024

The authors worked with 15 organizations and over 7,000 employees to experiment with ways to increase internal career development opportunities and prove promotion isn’t the only way people can advance. Employees gain opportunities to grow, develop in different directions, and increase their career resilience.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As reliance on data and analytics continues to expand across industries from agriculture to manufacturing, health care to financial services, it stands to reason that the next generation of data leaders will have far-reaching roles that impact strategy, decision-making, operations, and countless other functions.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This article presents a classroom experiment that compared a strategy developed by a team of MBA students in the traditional way with one developed using a virtual AI assistant, which was an interactive tool that linked a tried-and-tested strategy toolkit as a plug-in to the generative AI underlying Chat GPT.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Since this overabundance of learning options seems to be the norm, learning and development leaders need to pause and reflect on something behavioral scientists have known for decades: Less is more. In this article, the authors unpack why that is and outline some strategies for offering employees higher-impact learning content.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

But a new research study indicates that there’s a lot of upside for developing a pet-friendly workplace, including increased employee well-being and collaboration, as well as playing a key role in recruitment and retention.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Consequently, leaders must understand the risks and challenges of this new technology and develop policies and practices to guide its usage. This article explains the areas of concern and offers guidance in addressing them. The use of generative AI promises to continue to grow rapidly.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In this article, the author explores the subtle, yet significant, differences in career trajectories of PMs and CEOs as well as nine attributes PMs should develop to increase their potential to become the next executive leader.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But, many people misunderstand what coaching actually is, underestimate the process to become a credentialed coach, and don’t anticipate the ongoing effort required to generate and develop business to make a living doing this work. How many clients should you have? What other income streams should you consider?

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

Related Article: "7 Reasons Why Your Client Aren't Getting it When you Write and Talk About What You Do". This article is for you. Or, you may be mystified why most leadership development doesn't seem to stick. Or, you may be mystified why most leadership development doesn't seem to stick. Yes, emotions.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 28, 2025

[Note : Most people would break this into a few different articles but I want you to have all the info in one place. strategy development, market research, transformation initiatives). Having consistent cash flow is one of the hardest parts about being self-employed, especially when youre just starting your business.

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