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Research Articles
Collection of Research Articles to compliment your learning journey, provoke thought leadership, and provide current insights to industry trends and innovation.
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Navigating Cultural Transformation
Navigating Cultural transformation is a powerful journey that organizations embark on to adapt, innovate, and thrive in an ever-changing business...
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Navigating Paradigm Shifts
Navigating paradigm shifts, integrating change management, culture management, and monitoring for successful transformation is critical for organizations to adapt, stay...
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Digital Transformation Simplified
Digital Transformation (DT) raises many questions from clients in the Middle Market, about what, why, and how to start. Many...
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When Negotiating Summon Your Inner Child
When Negotiating Summon Your Inner Child in both your personal and business lives as all of us engage in the...
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REST Before You Negotiate
REST Before You Negotiate, in any type of communication, the application of Respect, Empathy, Sincerity, and Trust (REST) is a...
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Juggling Multiple Projects
Juggling Multiple Projects for most project managers, is simply a fact of work life and a requirement to accomplish the...
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Useful Skills for Business Analysts
Useful Skills for Business Analysts are core in how project performance has changed as project management techniques have matured? The...
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Collaboration Redefined
Collaboration Redefined took on new meaning for me after reading, “Smart Collaboration” by Heidi K. Gardner, in regard to the...
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Work from Home (WFH) Best Practices
Work from Home Best Practices WFH can be very rewarding, yet you must prepare for the inevitable distractions associated with...
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Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness
Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness (HR) leaders are faced with new business challenges each day as dynamic change is the...
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Strategic Thinking
Strategic Thinking is clear value, in a leader's toolbox and should be a sought-after attribute on any team.
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Leading Through Crisis: Lessons from Hurricane Ian
Southwest Florida is in its thirteenth day of recovering from the worst natural disaster in its history, and one of...
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Redefining Global Leadership
Redefining Global Leadership as Globalization, Cultural Intelligence (CQ), Diversity, Multicultural, Multinational, and the list of descriptors goes on.
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Risk Management – What’s the Big Deal
Risk Management – What’s the Big Deal and does risk management really matter in the wider spectrum of planning, is...
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The Reward of Recovering Challenged Projects
The Reward of Recovering Challenged Projects are vast and wide as they cascade through the project, team, and organization in...
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Agile – Getting Stuff Done
Agile – Getting Stuff Done means taking time to consider how Agile application and methodology has improved the reputation of...
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Agile – Mindset or Methodology?
Agile - Mindset or Methodology? The answer is simple, both, but one is important, and the other is critical.
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Performance Self-Assessment and Communicating Upward
Performance Self-Assessment and Communicating Upward in any organization can be difficult and stressful for professionals who are passionate about their...
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Crisis Management vs. Leadership
Crisis Management vs. Leadership applies to natural disaster, global crisis, and geopolitical events, and is even more critical in escalating...
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Talent and Digital Transformation
Talent and Digital Transformation has led to leadership roles changing within the DNA of the workplace by driving a higher...
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Do Women and Men Lead Differently
Do Women and Men Lead Differently, sure they do, and they both represent a high degree of integrity and is...
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Live Online Learning Platform Considerations
Live Online Learning Platform Considerations are just that, considerations. This piece is really more of an Op-ed than a research...
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Work/Life Balance – Answering the Wrong Question
Work/Life Balance – Answering the Wrong Question is ironic in the sense we seek a middle ground vs. the best...
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Process Excellence
Process Excellence is no longer an aspiration of Quality, it is a mandated standard to meet enterprise and cloud based...
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The New Learning Eco System
The New Learning Eco System is about distributing training in new modalities, to distributed teams, with new technology in an...
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Developing Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
Developing Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is an art, but the good news is that you can build upon your baseline knowledge...
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Your Co-Worker Really is a Jerk
Your Co-Worker Really is a Jerk is not a “PC” approach to the issue of interpersonal conflict, yet a real-life...
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Value and the Cost of Quality
Value and the Cost of Quality in most firms is calculated by cost accounting and has been an important function...
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Business Analysis – The Strategic Implications
Business Analysis - The Strategic Implications define the new role of the Business Analyst (BA) as far more strategic in...
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Feedback Session Best Practices
Feedback Session Best Practices are often a misunderstood, and are unfortunately quite often leveraged as an “event” with a scheduled...
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When Corporate Cultures Clash
When Corporate Cultures Clash in global organizations, multi-nationals and domestic alike, all share a common thread; culture.
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Success at Work – Mind Your Q’s
Success at Work – Mind Your Q’s as you determine what factors increase the odds of becoming a successful businessperson...
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The Pros and Cons of Globalization
The Pros and Cons of Globalization cause businesses to struggle with finding a true identity in an ever-changing global market...
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Jobs of the Future
Jobs of the Future that we hear so much about, yet so little about what that means in an application...
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Improving the Outcomes of Difficult Conversations
Improving the Outcomes of Difficult Conversations is critical for our relationships, because we’ve all had them or needed to have...
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Leading vs. Managing Time
Leading vs. Managing Time is a nuance that separates great organizers from excellent operators across any industry or enterprise.
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Stop, Make Time, and Schedule
Stop, Make Time, and Schedule, the ‘oh so convenient’ responses that portrays a commonly used avoidance technique to avoid the...
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Project Management Office Development
Project Management Office Development is being driven by the desire to improve and standardize the success rate of Business and...
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Creating a Service Culture
Creating a Service Culture is a business critical success factor and technology, demographics, and generational change all impact the way...
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Being Happy at Work
Being Happy at Work sounds a little counter-intuitive, usually, when you ask someone where he or she is most happy...