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St. Patrick’s Day often arrives draped in the superficial — green beer, plastic shamrocks, and the persistent myth of “the luck of the Irish.” But for those of us navigating the complex waters of human-centered change and innovation, there is a much deeper well to draw from than mere fortune.
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Guest Post from Art Inteligencia |
Every organization is producing more data than ever before. Dashboards are full, KPIs are tracked, and reports are generated with increasing frequency. And yet, despite this abundance, many leaders still find themselves asking a fundamental question: “What is really happening inside our organization?”
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Guest Post from Pete Foley |
I recently got a call from an ex colleague looking to staff up a technology innovation organization. She was looking for suggestions for potential candidates, and when I asked her for a bit more more information, her first criteria was that she was looking for a ‘Gen Z’. This triggered an interesting conversation around how useful generational and other stereotypes are.
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Guest Post from David Burkus |
A large part of doing your best work ever involves getting feedback on your performance. Feedback is how you know where to improve and where to build upon your strengths. Giving feedback is a requirement for unlocking greater performance, both individually and in teams. But many leaders struggle to ...
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Guest Post from Geoffrey Moore |
By now you have heard that GenAI’s natural language conversational abilities are anchored in what one wag has termed “auto-correct on steroids.” That is, by ingesting as much text as it can possibly hoover up, and by calculating the probability that any given sequence of words will be followed by ...
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Guest Post from Mike Shipulski
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If you don’t want to go to work in the morning, there’s a reason. If you're angry with how things go, there’s a reason. And if you you’re sad because of the way that people treat you, there’s a reason. But the reason has nothing to do with your work, how things are going or how people treat you. The reason has everything to do with ...
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Guest Post from Shep Hyken |
I recently wrote about the 'Reality Rule' in my Forbes column. Apparently, I hit on a topic that resonated with the Forbes readers, which prompted me to write a version for our subscribers to The Shepard Letter. 'The Golden Rule', which most of us ...
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Guest Post from Greg Satell |
I’ve always been inspired by ideas. Some, like Aristotle’s logic, shape the world for millennia. Others, like Einstein’s relativity, completely change our conceptions of what is possible. Still others, like mRNA vaccines, seem to emerge at just the right time. Ideas are what have marked humanity’s progress from ...
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