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Is Your Company’s Data Ready for Generative AI?

Harvard Business

While CDOs and data leaders are excited about generative AI, they have much work to do to get ready for it. A recent survey of 334 CDOs and data leaders — and a series of interviews with these executives — reveals that companies have not yet created new data strategies or begun to manage their data in the ways necessary to make generative AI work for them.

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An Attitude that Steals Opportunities from Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

You and your colleagues are upbeat, enthusiastic, fun to be around people with a passion for solving problems. However, there’s one attitudinal quirk that, if left unchecked, will undermine your efforts to win and delight clients. Your consulting firm is all about nurturing warm, long-lasting partnerships and collaborating to create value. Unfortunately, there’s one ingredient … Continued The post An Attitude that Steals Opportunities from Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.

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When Attending Industry Events, Avoid These Legal Risks

Harvard Business

There are plenty of good reasons to attend industry conferences, trade fairs, and other events, but they also present opportunities for the accidental disclosure of sensitive company information or other actions that run afoul of fair-competition regulations. Through their work executive coaching leaders in emerging and traditional technology ecosystems and working with organizations on ethics and compliance challenges, the authors have uncovered several strategies to equip your team to attend i

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What’s Wrong With Detailed Gantt Charts and How to Make Fewer Details Work for You

Johanna Rothman

I have never found Gantt charts to be useful. When I say that to my clients, some of them tell me they do find use in Gantt charts. Specifically, the people who like Gantt charts say they can predict where the project is headed. In addition, they can see the various interdependencies across the work. They say they know—from the Gantt and without a doubt—when the project will finish.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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To Accelerate Growth, Analyze Your Company Like an Investor

Harvard Business

Private equity (PE) firms have a proven approach to identify areas for revenue growth, value creation, and cost reduction: due diligence. But companies rarely use this same approach in the execution of their own growth strategy. This is a missed opportunity. The same due diligence skills and tools can be found in most large companies, but they are usually siloed in the corporate development team — the folks who handle M&A, who rarely have a chance to apply their expertise to a company’s ongoing

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Why the Glass Cliff Persists

Harvard Business

A conversation with author Sophie Williams on bias that continues to holds women and other underrepresented groups back.

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The drift to normal

Seth Godin Blog

As an organization grows in scale, the idiosyncrasy and distinctiveness that was originally informed by the taste of the founders moves toward the mean. Over time, things get more average. That’s because each new customer, each new supplier and each new employee wants or needs something a little more normal, at least sometimes. The drift to normal can only be countered by persistent effort, usually at the cost of some element of short-term scale. “It might not be for you,” alwa

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How One Leader Overcame Career-Ending Adversity

Harvard Business

How resilience and vulnerability have shaped the leadership of Raymond Jefferson (MBA 2000).

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Ep066 Matt Gjertsen

Girard Training Solutions

On this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric sits down with Matt Gjertsen, the founder and Chief Learning Officer of Better Every Day Studios. Better Every Day Studios aims to transform how companies view talent development by building custom training solutions that deliver business results for organizations. Matt uses what he learned as an instructor pilot in the U.S.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.