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Post Layoff – To Take A Lower Salary or Not

Women on Business

My plan was to make a career transition and I had accepted the fact that I’d probably have to take a short term pay cut from my pharmaceutical sales job to transition into marketing with a higher long term salary potential. So what do you do to protect your earning power but also keep yourself competitive in a buyer’s market?

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3 Ways to Confront Economic Adversity in 2011

Coaching Tip

Transforming time from an adversary into an ally has helped me develop the positive mindset to be able to dust myself off from my own early business failures and build my company, Weatherchem, into the leader in my industry. . Bottom line, the American economy is multi-faceted, robust and resilient. Deregulation.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

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The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5 You could argue that Cipla's formula is simply to piggyback on other companies' products, so it doesn't have to pay for R&D. What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals.

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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

QAspire

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”, replied the man who was himself a fitness freak. He neither had space nor money to start out.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. PL and CM: Turbulent markets demand focus and discipline. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford.

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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world").