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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K., It integrates advanced academic material, collaborative support, and customized business mentoring to empower participants to harness their full potential.

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To Close a Deal, Find a Champion

Harvard Business Review

Although champions are not the ultimate decision makers, and they rarely have substantial power within their organization, they have four things that make them irreplaceable in developing and closing the deal: credibility, connections, company intelligence, and motivation. Some champions are visionary types with deep domain focus.