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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

Teams have also played a central role in my life by ensuring that I received the support needed to achieve two cherished goals: leading sales organizations at several of the nation’s largest technology firms and climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Why Do Corporations Need A Single Purpose?

Harvard Business Review

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. Was your only goal to minimize time spent (in which case you skipped lunch) or to maximize time spent (in which case you are still eating)?

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A Rise Fueled by Subsidies. and European steel. To survive, U.S.

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How's That Shareholdery-Valuey Stuff Working Out for Ya?

Harvard Business Review

They're a metric, not a goal. That's because there's little legal or historical justification for making shareholder wealth maximization the goal of the corporation (Stout's 2002 Southern California Law Review article, " Bad and Not-So-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy ," is the best summary of the evidence on this).

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression. The stock market is down 25%. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002.

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The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

Harvard Business Review

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. based corporations make up a disproportionately high share of the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world’s most important corporations (in terms of profits, assets, market capitalization, or sales). And in practice, the foreign income of U.S.