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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units. They may feel overburdened and resistant to shouldering new responsibilities. As a sales leader, I was responsible for assembling both “Inside” and “Outside” ROPE teams.

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Bill Ackman Is Just Doing God's Work

Harvard Business Review

He started developing his famous case against bond insurer MBIA in 2002, and had to wait till 2009 for it to pay off. Boards Competition Finance' Ackman is no Warren Buffett, who holds on to companies for decades, but he''s not obsessing over day-to-day market moves or quarterly earnings reports, either.

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