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Medium
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You’ll Never Get Your Innovations Accepted — Unless You Stop Pitching and Start Listening
- Failure to understand stakeholder priorities hinders innovation acceptance.
- Product leaders must spend time listening to stakeholders' needs and concerns.
- Listening to stakeholders and addressing their needs is crucial for success.
- Success lies in connecting your innovation to stakeholders' personal success.
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Salesfuel
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What Is Sales Forecasting? How to Plan for Future Success
- Sales forecasting is crucial for businesses to predict future sales, plan effectively, and manage resources.
- Benefits of sales forecasting include driving motivation, identifying potential issues, and experiencing growth.
- The process involves identifying goals, reviewing sales processes, analyzing data, setting forecasting goals, and utilizing technology.
- Different methods like historical forecasting, pipeline forecasting, opportunity stage forecasting, and length of sales cycle forecasting can be used for sales forecasting.
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The Power of Saying "I Assume the Risk and Its Consequences"
- By explicitly saying 'I assume the risk and the consequences,' leaders can transform the atmosphere within their company by taking ownership and demonstrating emotional leadership.
- For leaders, this act forces them to embrace reality, reclaim their agency, and make more focused and decisive decisions, leading to a sense of ownership and accountability.
- This approach liberates the team by reducing fear, encouraging initiative, building trust, and promoting responsibility among team members, creating a shift from survival to creation mode.
- While rare, true ownership of risks elevates a leader's authority, fosters loyalty, and cultivates a strong company culture based on trust, respect, and a willingness to take bold action.
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Key Lessons from My Journey to Raising Series A Funding
- Raising Series A is tough, with only 20-30% startups reaching this stage.
- Focus on traction, customer acquisition, revenue crucial for investor interest.
- Control your narrative, address assumptions, highlight team's strengths. Celebrate successes.
- Embrace challenges, stay focused on goals, build support system. Success is possible.
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Decision-Wise
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Turning Insight into Impact: The Power of Feedback and Coaching
- Leaders must adapt to complex challenges, including hybrid work models and generational shifts.
- Accelerated promotions can leave leaders unprepared, lacking essential people-centered skills.
- Solution lies in multi-perspective feedback and personalized coaching for effective leadership development.
- Combining 360-degree feedback with coaching results in personalized, impactful, and measurable leadership growth.
- Continuous feedback and embedded development are shaping the future of effective leadership development.
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Hrdive
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Performance reviews undermine woman’s bias claim against Exxon Mobil, 7th Circuit says
- A former laboratory technician for Exxon Mobil failed to prove that she was fired based on her sex due to lack of evidence against her poor performance, according to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Exxon Mobil's decision to offer the plaintiff a separation agreement or immediate resignation was based on her low performance review rating, placing her in the lowest performance category.
- The court ruled that the plaintiff's male co-workers were not proper comparators, and she did not demonstrate that Exxon's decision was pretextual, leading to the affirmation of the district court's ruling in favor of Exxon.
- The 7th Circuit emphasized Exxon's performance documentation, highlighting that the plaintiff was ranked last among Management Assigned Category workers, and there was no evidence suggesting termination due to her sex.
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Starbucks shifts to 4-day RTO for corporate employees
- Starbucks will mandate corporate employees to work in the office four days a week starting in October, marking a change from remote work policies.
- The in-person requirement now extends to all support center people leaders in Seattle or Toronto within the next 12 months.
- In March, Starbucks laid off 6.9% of its non-cafe workforce and initiated a return-to-office policy for many leaders.
- Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol sees the shift as reinstating an in-office culture, emphasizing the importance of employees working together.
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Hrdive
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Wells Fargo workers allege union-busting again
- Wells Fargo employees allege that a senior human resources executive has been pressuring workers to decertify their union by visiting unionized branches and making derogatory comments about the union.
- Employees rallied against the alleged union-busting in Charlotte, and the Communications Workers of America filed an unfair labor practice report with the National Labor Relations Board regarding the interrogation and coercion.
- Efforts to unionize at Wells Fargo began in 2021 and have spread with over 27 locations in 15 states now voting to unionize.
- Wells Fargo states that they respect their employees' rights but workers claim common challenges across branches have led to unionization efforts, with instances of alleged coercion and false narrative creation reported.
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Salesfuel
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Psychographics Over Demographics: SalesFuel’s AudienceSCAN® 2025 Reveals New Insights Into America’s Consumer Market Trends
- The latest study by SalesFuel reveals insights into America's consumer market trends through AudienceSCAN® 2025, encompassing responses from over 20,000 U.S. adults.
- Key findings include a rise in AI adoption, financial concerns among consumers, weight loss medication inquiries, NFL fan behaviors, and energy drink consumption trends.
- AudienceSCAN® 2025 offers psychographic profiles for over 1,350 audience segments and introduces new profiles like Gen Alpha parents and frequent fine diners.
- The data emphasizes the significance of psychographic insights in creating impactful marketing strategies for marketers, agencies, local media, small businesses, and academic environments.
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Medium
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Eternal Source: The Flame of the Mind
- Exploring the concept of consciousness as a potent force connecting all things.
- From legends to modern experiments, highlighting consciousness's tangible capabilities and potential applications.
- Imagining a future where collective consciousness powers everything from cities to interstellar travel.
- Market trends towards neural technology companies and ETFs focusing on brain-machine interfaces.
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Askamanager
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a manager on my team only hires attractive people
- A reader is concerned about a manager on their team who consistently hires extremely attractive people, predominantly women.
- The reader is unsure how to address this issue without sounding creepy or casting doubt on the hires' qualifications.
- Although there is no evidence of inappropriate behavior, the reader suspects the manager may be making biased hiring decisions.
- The reader seeks advice on how to handle the situation without causing a negative impact.
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When Vision Isn’t Enough: Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders as a Product Manager
- Navigating power dynamics with stakeholders is crucial for product managers' success.
- Research shows that balancing stakeholder interests is as important as technical feasibility.
- Product vision alignment, stakeholder dialect fluency, and strategic navigation are key skills needed.
- Successful product leadership involves managing upward, sideways, and diagonally within organizations.
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Hrdive
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AI may diminish demand for high-wage skills like data analysis, research finds
- Research by Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the Digital Economy Lab suggests that high-wage skills like data analysis may diminish in demand and salary due to AI and automation.
- Skills involving human interaction and coordination, such as teaching and effective communication, are predicted to grow in importance and command higher pay.
- AI capabilities may not align with what workers desire, hindering successful integration into the workplace. Workers seek collaborative roles with AI.
- Study highlights mismatches between tasks suitable for AI automation and worker preferences. Collaboration between employees and AI is crucial for successful integration in the workplace.
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HR State of the Union: Understanding AI’s Impact on Your Business
- Webinar on understanding AI's impact on HR processes by Akshara Naik Lopez, a Senior Analyst from Forrester Consulting, happening on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 3:00 pm ET.
- Learn about the latest trends in AI affecting businesses, opportunities, compliance concerns, and how to leverage AI tools in your organization.
- The webinar is pre-approved for 1.0 (HR General) recertification credit by HRCI and offers 1.0 PDC for SHRM-CP/SCP recertification.
- Join the session to prepare for the transformative impact of AI-powered tech and automation on HR operations.
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Askamanager
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is this person the disaster I think they are?
- A reader seeks advice on handling a colleague's unprofessional behavior in college workplace.
- The colleague, 'June,' displayed various inappropriate actions like socializing in shared workspaces.
- Despite being self-centered and pushy, June's behavior is described as inexperienced and obnoxious.
- The reader is advised not to take responsibility for June's actions and to be cautious in recommendations.
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