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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

Along the way, I learned a great deal about team development and leadership. Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units. As a sales leader, I was responsible for assembling both “Inside” and “Outside” ROPE teams.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.