Dates covered: March 4-10, 2019 (week 10 of 52) Career The Best Ways to Use Social Media to Expand Your Network (via Harvard Business Review) Reach out to people who are less senior (i.e., C-suite); you’re more likely to get…
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Professional Development – 2019 – Week 9
Dates covered: February 25-March 3, 2019 (week 9 of 52) Business It’s Time to Ban Hidden Fees (via Harvard Business Review) When you book a flight, hotel, or concert ticket, there are always extra fees. This bait-and-surcharge “is a blatantly…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 8
Dates covered: February 18-24, 2019 (week 8 of 52) Business Why Great Innovation Needs Great Marketing (via Harvard Business Review) Identify unmet and even unknown customer needs (before the smartphone, people didn’t consider having the Internet in their pockets) Understand…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 7
Dates covered: February 11-17, 2019 (week 7 of 52) Business Yes, Sustainability Can Be a Strategy (via Harvard Business Review) Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings indicate that some of the techniques that typically pertain to sustainability (e.g., water conservation,…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 6
Dates covered: February 4-10, 2019 (week 6 of 52) Business What Does Your Corporate Brand Stand For? (via Harvard Business Review) This article has some exercises to help guide executive teams through a set of questions to examine their company’s…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 5
Dates covered: January 28-February 3, 2019 (week 5 of 52) Business Pricing Needs to Reflect Who People Want to Be, Not Just What They Want (via Harvard Business Review) The author cites some examples of non-luxury goods (i.e., magazine subscriptions)…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 4
Dates covered: January 21-27, 2019 (week 4 of 52) Business The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over (via Harvard Business Review) The impact of the technologies of tomorrow (genomics, AR/VR, blockchain) will have considerable impact on lives…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 3
Dates covered: January 14-20, 2019 (week 3 of 52) Business Customer Surveys Are No Substitute for Actually Talking to Customers (via Harvard Business Review) The logistically simple approach to understanding customers is surveys; however, the quantity doesn’t match the quality…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 2
Dates covered: January 7-13, 2019 (week 2 of 52) Business The Legacy of Herb Kelleher, Cofounder of Southwest Airlines (via Harvard Business Review) Herb passed away last week, and those who knew him appreciated his leadership style. 30 years after…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 1
Dates covered: December 31, 2018 – January 6, 2019 (week 1 of 52) Business The Board’s Role in Strategy (via Harvard Business Review) Individually the CEO and the board don’t develop the strategy. The CEO should work with the board…