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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently. Smart product managers know the value of having allies in the CFO’s office. Product management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization.

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Who's wagon is your star hitched to?

Roundtable Talk

Posted on March 12, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment There are lots of ways you can unwittingly derail your career. Both have very quick minds and can solve complex problems with seemingly magical efficiency. The CFO, who is the named successor for the Prez, is Ricardo’s #1 detractor. Skip to content Home Welcome!

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

Move from the plant floor to the executive suite and we’re known as a company who has brought several unique and inventive products to the industry that has improved the efficient delivery of protein products to a demanding consumer. Where We Came From and Why We’re Successful. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Provide refunds quickly and efficiently. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service. His book Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth was named a 2010 Top 25 Business Book for Business Owners by Inc. Never make your customers jump through hoops to do business with you.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Consider Intel, which began eyeing Big Data’s potential to quantify marketing’s contribution to revenue in about 2010. New marketing-finance relationships combined with advanced analytics technology are increasing efficiency and delivering “found” dollars to the bottom line. Inside Intel.

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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Ideas Plus Influence by Starbucker on December 2, 2010 (This is Part 1 in a two-part blog series which I’ve worked on with a colleague, Denise Lee Yohn. And we should always have our antenna up for new voices.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

Under the leadership of Anthony Tersigni, Ascension’s president and CEO, the organization has sought to become much more efficient at delivering health care. In a 2010 review of its purchasing strategy, Ascension concluded that it didn’t really have an effective purchasing strategy at all.