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CEOs: Difficult customers can improve your business

CEO Insider

They are more successful on almost every measure that counts in business, from profitability to growth to employee engagement (Kirca et al. “Market-driven firms are, […]. A focus on customers is a business truism. The evidence for those that do it well is unambiguous.

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Research Reveals The Importance Of A Local Supply Of Managers

The Horizons Tracker

The notion of a global executive labor market is widely held, with frequent headlines touting the appointment of top executives to lead companies in far-flung corners of the world. Their findings demonstrate the crucial role that managerial skills play in the success of a firm. In these markets, ROA dropped by 1.8

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Ken Melrose Completes His Service on Earth

Modern Servant Leader

Ken’s leadership at Toro was not only a cultural success, but a financial success as well. Billion when he retired in 2005. If you unleash that potential, market leadership and financial success will be natural by-products. He also championed philanthropic endeavors at Toro and beyond.

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“Studying doesn’t stop at GCSEs”

Chartered Management Institute

Apprenticeships are important – here are five ways they could be better Solving the skills shortage: why apprenticeships matter “ It was very business-oriented, with a lot of talk about competitive markets and corporate strategy. People from the private sector could rattle through those areas, but it was new to me.”

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

You may value the team and company putting time and resources into successful projects, but don’t want to see the company waste money on failing ones. Making sure this project is successful is important to me, and I think it’s critical that the company makes good use of limited resources.

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PCamp Utah and the “unconference” explained

Lead on Purpose

BarCamps sprouted up in 2005 as the unconference way of gathering and sharing ideas. Leaders in product management and product marketing have extended the BarCamp idea to ProductCamps (or PCamp). The Product Management Perspective: Product camps provide great opportunities to improve our product management/marketing skills.

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

This is especially so as around two-thirds of the 40 million new jobs created in the US economy between 1980 and 2005 were created by new SMEs. For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs.