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What Makes Urban Labor Markets Resilient?

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Urban labor markets are often said to be highly resilient, but it’s not always entirely clear why that is. There is clearly a strong desire across policymakers, economists, and employers to understand the kind of factors that contribute to a healthy job market. The post What Makes Urban Labor Markets Resilient?

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New Research Explores How To Improve Fund Manager Selection

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Many investment decisions are made using historic data, so that fund managers are backed based upon strong past performances rather than potential future performances. Research from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management suggests this is a major problem. And two, does this add value? . And two, does this add value?”

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Leadership and Product Management

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Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

They focus on this marketing campaign or that new technology, and lose track of what’s most important. In most companies product managers have a lot of products and significant responsibilities. A company’s success is ultimately a roll-up of all products and services selling for a profit.

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Managing Board Relations | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. What’s interesting to me is that of all the constituencies that CEOs must deal with, the relationship with a board of directors is among the easiest to manage.

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Manager vs. ?

Lead on Purpose

Manager&# is an interesting title. An account manager is different from a store manager. Even within the title of “store manager&# the scope and breadth of responsibility varies widely. The manager of a 7-Eleven has significantly different responsibilities than the manager of a Costco store.

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The Importance of Testing in an E-marketing Campaign

Women on Business

The same principles apply to e-marketing: before rolling out a campaign to a large audience, test it on a small one. How does their e-marketing supplement their traditional marketing? Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test.

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