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Marketing and Sales ā€“ Some Sales Are Simply Not Worth Making

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Some business leaders aggressively pursue every sale believing them to be the ultimate key to corporate success. Sales, however, represent far more than just dollars and cents. In fact, the revenue generated through a sale is just the beginning of the overall financial impact on the business. Sales say a lot about a company and profoundly impact its culture, reputation, and goals achievement.

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Elements from the past twenty years you can use for the next twenty!

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Iā€™m celebrating my twentieth year of writing about sales, networking, loyalty, trust, attitude, leadership, business social media, and personal development. My core of information transformed into a body of work that includes 11 books ā€“ all bestsellers. I did it while you were watching TV. I chose to write instead of watch. Last week was the second part of the celebration talking about the evolution of the selling process and how it will affect you and your sales for the next twenty.

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Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 17 ā€“ Annual Alignment Review

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Just as a well-developed organizational performance measurement system helps align an organization to the efficient achievement of its goals, a misaligned performance measurement system diverts focus and resources toward non-value-adding activities. Over time, existing projects finish and new initiatives begin; requiring performance measures within the system be changed.

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Complimentary Resource ā€“ Six Pitfalls of Workforce Planning

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Six Pitfalls of Workforce Planning. by SuccessFactors. Know the pitfalls that companies can fall into when doing strategic workforce planning. With aging workforces and a shortage of critical talent being among the biggest challenges facing today’s businesses, strategic workforce planning–the discipline of forecasting future gaps between demand and supply of critical talent–has become one of HR’s most important responsibilities.

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Leadership Inspirations ā€“ Fear of Mistakes

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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915). American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. You just finished reading Leadership Inspirations - Fear of Mistakes ! Consider leaving a comment! If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.