Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Setting up a leadership team get-together can spark new ideas and get everyone on the same page with the big goals. Let’s dig into why these escapes are a big deal and break down how to pull them off in style. Why Leadership Team Offsites Rock Taking the crew on an offsite adventure does wonders. Here’s why you don’t want to skip out on these gatherings: Think Big Time : Being away from the everyday grind gives you space to think big and map out future plans.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 7, 2025

A Corporate Carol About Why Youre Not Getting Results GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Last week, InnoLead published a collection of eleven articles describing the root causes and remedies for killers of innovation in large organizations. Every single article is worth a read as theyre all written by experts and practitioners whose work I admire.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

When you’re gearing up for a leadership retreat, it’s like setting the stage for a big showget it right, and you open the curtain on some serious innovation and strategy makeovers. Here’s how to roll out the red carpet for your A-team. Setting the Objectives Before you jump into the deep end, figure out what you want from this shindig.

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Faisal Hoque

JANUARY 7, 2025

Success lies in understanding both the real potential and limitations of Al. AI in 2025 offers transformative opportunities in healthcare, business efficiency, and government services, but expectations must be managed. While AI won’t fully replace human functions or achieve perfect automation, it will significantly augment capabilities. Success requires balanced implementation using structured frameworks (such as OPEN and CARE) and maintaining human oversight of critical processes.

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Strategic offsite meetings are a secret weapon for bigwigs and top management folks looking to shake up their game plan and spark fresh ideas. These gatherings whisk everyone away from the daily chaos, giving leaders a bright, shiny place to dive into high-level strategy stuff. Once you’re out of that usual office bubble, your crew can get those creative juices flowing, team up like never before, and really think strategically, cooking up brilliant solutions and fueling business success.

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Acuvate

JANUARY 7, 2025

As we are on the cusp to 2025, the oil and gas industry stands at a pivotal crossroads. The interplay between global energy demands, climate change imperatives, and rapid technological innovation is reshaping the sector like never before. This is not just evolutionit’s a revolution in how energy powers the world, presenting both challenges and unprecedented opportunities.

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Acuvate

JANUARY 7, 2025

As we are on the cusp to 2025, the oil and gas industry stands at a pivotal crossroads. The interplay between global energy demands, climate change imperatives, and rapid technological innovation is reshaping the sector like never before. This is not just evolutionit’s a revolution in how energy powers the world, presenting both challenges and unprecedented opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2025

Studies have shown that people dislike attempts to make AI convincingly human. But emphasizing the essential role of humans in AI tools can help reduce resistance to adoption.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Executive offsite meetings are like the secret sauce for pushing your company onward and upwards. They take your leadership team away from the usual hustle and bustle, granting some much-needed space to ponder the big picture without getting distracted by the day-to-day chaos. These off-the-grid gatherings spark creativity and strategic smarts, helping everyone to join forces and get in sync about where the business is headed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2025

A conversation with psychologist Ellen Hendriksen on being your own worst critic.

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Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Getting your executive team away from their usual routines for offsite planning can be a game-changer for your organization. Its a prime opportunity to kick back a little from the usual hustle and get stuck into those big-picture goals. Were talking juicy conversations, fresh ideas, and brainstorming that make your business chunkier and ready for growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2025

HBS senior lecturer Hise Gibson discusses Coach Prime’s effectiveness.

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Planview

JANUARY 7, 2025

With business disruptions now constant, organizations must continuously evolve how they deliver projects to anticipate market shifts. To explore this challenge, I sat down with Andy Jordan, President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., to discuss the key project management focus areas for 2025. In this article, I offer a quick glimpse into that discussion and some closing thoughts on how you can embrace, adapt, and move forward.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 7, 2025

When it comes to managing ideas, generation doesnt necessarily lead to impact. Although most organizations generate a vast number of ideas every year, a mere 25% of companies effectively assess and implement them (source: McKinsey ). Without a structured approach to evaluation, many promising concepts are overlooked, resulting in missed opportunities for growth and innovation.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 7, 2025

Building the Ecosystem Business model is a paradigm shift Building Business Ecosystems can be complex to build, let alone explain. I have been working on an evolving Ecosystem Business Model for some time. So many people are unable to explain Business Ecosystems, especially to others and it holds its evolution back. Let me explain some of my thinking here I visualized a starting point nearly all should be familiar with, of the Business Model Canvas , by Alexander Osterwalder, drawn from his PhD

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 7, 2025

Source: NFL.com Conventional wisdom often asserts that strong familiarity and cohesion within a group leads to a high risk of groupthink. In other words, a strong sense of social belonging within a team can lead to pressures to conform, which in turn can diminish the quality of decisions that a team makes. However, might that strong in-group familiarity be helpful when it comes to resisting external pressures?

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The Bliss Business Podcast

JANUARY 7, 2025

The Speed of Trust: Accelerating Success Through Connection In the next episode of The Bliss Business Podcast , brought to you by the creators of AI CMO by Zero Company , were continuing our Effective Communication Styles series with Part 5: The Speed of Trust. Based on the principles from Stephen M.R. Covey's influential book, this episode delves into how trust impacts every aspect of businessspeed, cost, and collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2025

Confronting direct reports about performance issues can feel overwhelming, especially for first-time managers, who may worry that sharing critical feedback could damage their relationship with the employee. But performance conversations, especially where you need to give critical feedback, dont have to be scary. There are a few common mistakes to avoid when giving critical feedback.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2025

Since the 1960s, there has been a quest to find ways to address the tidal wave of paper deluging organizations. The latest technology that is being applied is AI. A case study an effort at a healthcare insurer provides five lessons not just applicable in projects aimed at reducing paper but also for other AI initiatives as well: 1) The goal should not be automation; it should be to get the work done in a cost-effective manner. 2) A successful application of AI may not mean lower employment. 3)

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