The people part of business operations.
Dr. Linda Gravett, Author, Learning Agility: The Impact on Recruitment and Retention A culture of learning agility, or flexible learning, can be a true asset to any organization. Learning agile employees provide creative, customer-focused approaches to help foster an energetic and ever-evolving workplace. This is a company’s competitive advantage. There are four types of learning agility: […]
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Jim Dewald, Dean, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, and author, Achieving Longevity Businesses fail. They fail fast and they fail often. Research indicates that over 50 per cent of new firms fail within five years, and 75 per cent are gone in ten years. So what is different about the firms that survive? The
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Feeling Stressed? Don’t Suppress As a CEO you are under pressure seemingly from all sides. Maybe you feel squeezed by the need to make more revenue without more staff. Perhaps you are suffocating from long work hours with no end in sight. Stress can leave you irritable, tired and short-tempered. That is not a good
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Robbie Hardy, Author, UPSETTING THE TABLE: Women Mentoring Women. It’s still dark outside. You can’t sleep and you’re staring at your desktop wondering “how did this happen?” How did this project, or product, go so wrong? It is over budget, behind schedule, and the scope has spiraled beyond your imagination. What went wrong? Who dropped
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Conquerors tend not to enjoy a laudable place in the history books, but they do offer lessons in how to get more without settling for less. Pilots refer to PNR—the point of no return. This technical term in air navigation refers to the point in a flight at which, due to fuel consumption, a plane
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Herb Carver, Founder & President, Point Above Consulting Talent is a major differentiator in today’s business environment – it’s key to business outcomes, revenue, profitability, innovation, productivity, customer loyalty and quality. Unfortunately, convincing talented employees that your company is the best one for them can be a challenge. Lately, the stakes are getting higher. Firmly
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Kristen Gramigna, CMO, BluePay You may be a small business, but customers expect you to have the same capacity as larger companies when it comes to technology, service and overall experience. Here are four common mistakes businesses make online, and how to avoid them. Clunky user experiences. Slightly more than a year has passed since
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M. Tamra Chandler, CEO & Co-founder, PeopleFirm There is a revolution coming. Within the next decade, virtually all organizations of note will have swapped out their old-school, ineffective performance management programs for something far better suited to today’s chaotic, multi-generational, fast-changing business world. The vanguard is already shifting, with The Gap, Netflix, GE, and Adobe all tweaking
What would it look like if you had better visibility into your corporate travel expenses? What if you had the right technology that integrated booking, authorizations, and payments; and then that technology streamlined your processes? What if your business travelers were happy to follow the corporate travel policy? For many lightly managed travel programs, that
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John F. Dowling Barron’s (May 16, 2016) has reported that Macy’s stock price has slipped 15%, Kohl’s is down double digits and even Nordstrom was down almost 9%. However, consumer spending was up, especially online sales. Does this spell the end for brick and mortar stores? Hardly! When was the last time you enjoyed an
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