How to Accelerate Innovation

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Marcus Buckingham

This is an excerpt from Buckingham's latest book, StandOut: Find Your Edge, Win at Work, which is available September 13, 2011. We all revere innovation. It is the mystical driver of progress, the secret sauce, the touchstone we reach for whenever our backs are against ... More »

The Best of Best Practices: Critical Success Factors for Identifying and Measuring Industry-Leading Management Solutions

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Louis Carter

In today's uncertain economic climate, the ability to identify effective and actionable solutions to business challenges is more crucial than ever to the strategic management process. When there are substantial problems to be solved, best practice benchmarking providers... More »

Moving From Evidence to Proof: New Directions for the Way We Think About Metrics

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Jack J. Phillips

A group of client relationship managers participate in a formal learning program to implement new selling skills. Six months after the program, sales improve, and the learning team presents the results to the vice president of sales. The senior executive responds, "An i... More »

The Silent Killers of Productivity and Profit

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Chauncey Bell

As we make our way out of the recent recession, it is clear that the business world has changed dramatically and there will be no going back to the way things were. Yet the training and development world remains largely stuck in dated thinking, practices, and programs t... More »