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Successful Private Equity Firms Manage Talent Differently

Harvard Business

Private equity firms are increasingly recognizing the importance of talent management in driving value creation. The article outlines seven key behaviors that advanced firms are adopting, including integrating human capital into deal planning, improving talent assessments, and fostering leadership development. These practices mark a shift from traditional approaches, emphasizing the strategic role of talent at all organizational levels.

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What Has the Greatest Impact on Organizational Culture?

LSA Global

What Has the Greatest Impact on Organizational Culture? Our organizational alignment research found that cultural factors account for 40% of the difference between high and low growth companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, leadership effectiveness, customer loyalty, and employee engagement. But what has the greatest impact on organizational culture?

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Designing a Responsible AI Program? Start with this Checklist

Harvard Business

When implementing responsible computing initiatives, companies run into a common problem: They rush to deploy their respective programs before they’ve finished designing them. The results are predictable: inefficient and difficult-to-scale efforts at managing AI’s ethical, reputational, and legal risks; wasted resources; and slowed innovation. To assess how ready their company is to implement an RAI program, leaders should ask eight questions: 1) Have you determined what its objectives are?

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How to make valuable values

People Business Psychology

“Our customers are our priority” This value statement I picked just now from a large for-profit company with a presence across Europe. It seems to be a self-evident statement; after all, are there entities that rely on customers where those customers are not their priority? You would be forgiven to feel that the value statements that are thrown at us by companies, organisations and even politicians sound a bit hollow nowadays.

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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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Research: When Prototypes Don’t Yield Useful Insights

Harvard Business

A study of digital healthcare startups found that successful firms avoided prototypes early.

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Ep 39: From Research to Reality, an I-O Practicioner Perspective

Harmonious Workplaces

This episode of the Harmonious Workplaces podcast, “From Research to Reality, an I/O Practitioner Perspective”, featured guests Jen Adelhardt and Larry DeCicco. The hosts, Rich Cruz, Sharyl Volpe, and Ben Kleinman, discussed the importance of I/O Psychology in todays work environment, and how practitioners can help translate academic theory into real-world practice.

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Looking for a Job? The Number of Openings Continues to Shrink

MishTalk

The number of job openings continues to shrink and revisions tend to be negative.

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Who owns your words?

Seth Godin Blog

There are many ways to ask and answer this question. Authorship used to be rare, but now, all of us write something. If you’re putting your words on a social media platform, you might be surprised to discover that they could disappear at any moment. Some platforms acknowledge that they own the relationship you think you have with your readers, not you.

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