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How to use technology to improve any presentation

Work Life

Technological advancements are rapidly changing the way sales presentations look and sound. But no amount of sophisticated technology will ever supplant the necessity of creating a genuine connection with listeners. Don’t let little mishaps discourage you from using technology or demonstrations in your presentations.

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Matt Richtel’s New Book Explores the Emotional Balance Between Creativity and Stability

Success

But what do you know from creativity? Yes, creativity might disgust you, if you’re honest. Powerful research comes from Dr. Jack Goncalo, a highly innovative thinker about creativity who, along with two collaborators, asked themselves a question: Do people really like creativity and creators? It’s terrifying.

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The Art of Problem-Solving: 4 Creative Strategies to Tackle Your Biggest Obstacles

Success

If knowledge is power, then these 4 creative problem-solving strategies will help you unlock your hidden strength. Here you have a problem (flagging revenue) and a goal (sales target). The lion’s share of our sales comes from email marketing , but very few blog readers (1%) subscribe. Green is the creative hat.

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From logic to leaps: a new paradigm for CEOs in the AI age

Work Life

In a packed auditorium at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, toward the end of Steve Jobs’s penultimate keynote before he stepped down as CEO, he said, “It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.”

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Ingenious Ways to Improve Your Customer Experience

The Receptionist

However, more and more businesses are adding different types of fees to their pricing—without explicitly stating so during the sales transaction—to cover the increased cost of goods and labor. You just need to get a little creative and think of things from your customer’s perspective.

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The hidden truth behind job market numbers and how they influenced the vote

Work Life

This can be seen via decreased sales in industries such as auto repair—car owners pinching pennies by making simple fixes themselves—and decreased loan performance in American borrowers. Many indicators, such as small business retail sales appearing up 2.1%

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Businesses need three years to prepare for impact of AI

Workplace Insight

IT and technology jobs were at the top of the list (27 percent), followed by finance and accounting (23 percent), customer services and support (22 percent), sales and marketing (22 percent) and healthcare and media (21 percent). Varying responses from different age groups were also revealed.