Chair
Sherry Duda
Vice Chair
Martha Kesler
Treasurer
Amy Cowart
Marco Cassone
Steven Goodwin
Jean Hartmann
Jamie Kelly
Zoe MacLeod
Sanjay Naik
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| The March of Globalization Is Grinding to a Halt Leigh Thomas, Business InsiderGlobal economic growth will flounder this year and next at rates not seen since the financial crisis as the march of globalization grinds to a halt, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned on Wednesday. Long a motor for the global economy, trade growth is set to lag growth in the broader world economy this year, the OECD said in an update of its main economic forecasts.
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| Adapting Your Organizational Processes to a New Culture Andy Molinsky and Robin Moriarty, Harvard Business ReviewWe all know that, in a foreign culture, one of the most important skills to develop is the ability to translate, to learn to speak the new language — or at least master a few key phrases. You also need to learn to translate your behavior so you don’t end up making cultural faux pas. But one of the most critical (and also most underappreciated) aspect of translation, and the one that we both believe gets companies into the most trouble when operating globally, is the translation of corporate systems, processes and procedures — in other words, the nuts and bolts of how corporations actually do business in today’s globalized world. Keep Reading
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| Ready to Heal Your Organization? Leverage Systemic Thinking for New Solutions Kathy Caprino, ForbesThroughout my 18-year corporate career, I had the pleasure of working in a number of very positive, healthy and thriving cultures. However, I can say the opposite was equally true — there were many cultures I interacted with and worked within that were “diseased,” troubled and failing.
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| How Important Is Corporate Culture? It's Everything Liz Ryan, Forbes
We have to talk more openly than we have done in the past about fear and trust at work. Fear and trust are the chemical currents that power every good or bad thing an organization does, but we seldom talk about them and it hurts us not to. Keep Reading
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| Why Leadership Training Fails — and What to Do About It
Michael Beer, Magnus Finnström and Derek Schrader, Harvard Business Review
Corporations are victims of the great training robbery. American companies spend enormous amounts of money on employee training and education — $160 billion in the United States and close to $356 billion globally in 2015 alone — but they are not getting a good return on their investment. For the most part, the learning doesn’t lead to better organizational performance, because people soon revert to their old ways of doing things. Keep Reading
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| 25 Things Strong Leaders Tell Their Employees Liz Ryan, Forbes A great way to step into your leadership power is to start saying things that you haven’t said before. The more aware you can be of your language, the more effective a leader you will be. Keep Reading
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| The Five Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline Josh Bersin, Harvard Business Review Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. It’s not that development itself isn’t important. In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89 percent of executives rated “strengthening the leadership pipeline” an urgent issue. That’s up from 86 percent last year, and the trend makes sense. Organizations are continuously promoting people into management, and those new leaders struggle with the transition. To help them in their new roles, companies spend almost $14 billion a year on courses, books, videos, coaches, tests and executive education programs — and such spending rose 10 percent last year.
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| The Role Leaders Play in the Process When Communicating Organizational Change Alison Davis, Business.com Change efforts have been proven to be more successful when leaders are involved. During these times, your job is to help them understand and embrace their critical role in communicating organizational change to employees. Follow these tips to get them involved, and learn the do's and don'ts for leaders.
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| How These Companies Are Using AI to Boost Productivity Lisa Rabasca Roepe, Fast Company "Amy" saves entrepreneur Gillian Morris about 43 productive hours a year. Morris, the founder of Hitlist, a travel app that alerts users to cheap flights, has been using Amy, a virtual assistant from x.ai for about two years, to schedule meetings. To ask for Amy’s help, Morris sends an email to the person or people she wants to meet with and copies Amy. From there, Amy takes Morris out of the email chain and handles the back and forth about dates and times.
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| 15 Must-have Technology Capabilities for Digital Transformation (The Final Scream) Steve Andriole, Forbes Yes, there’s a technology capabilities, skills and competencies crisis underway. I’ve been observing it for a while now. So have you. Your business is changing, but your ability to respond to shifting markets, demographics and aggressive competitors is constrained because you’re not leveraging current and emerging digital technology. So your efforts at digital transformation are failing — and will continue to fail until you master the Magnificent 15.
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