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Four Strategies to Make Your Vision a Reality

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

To ensure the realization of your vision, you need structures and processes which act as guardrails to keep you from falling off the path. Before you begin down the path of execution, spend some time getting yourself organized by creating processes and checklists to help you stay on track. 1. Get Organized. About Todd Nielsen.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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Intrapreneurship in "Social" Business

Mills Scofield

Having lived in and with off-the-grid communities in Latin America, in Nicaragua and Colombia, I had seen and felt the impact of low Internet and basic telecommunications access, especially when it comes to communicating with potential employers. This customer discovery process let me identify the forces acting on a worker.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

Although many boards continue to select new members from their own networks, our research suggests that more are beginning to implement objective processes to select members based on the skills and attributes that boards need to be effective. We also looked at results by industry and region.

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Are You Paying Enough Attention to Your Sales Force?

Harvard Business Review

There''s a question all top managers should ask: How can I make my sales force, which is one of the biggest and most important investments my company makes, perform more effectively?". billion spent on all media advertising in 2012 and more than 20 times the estimated $39.5 billion spent on Internet advertising in 2012.

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Ten Reasons Salespeople Lose Deals

Harvard Business Review

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Increasingly, purchasing has more say over decisions that were previously made solely by business areas.

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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

Likewise, leading telecommunications and other equipment providers now have to compete by offering “network solutions” involving many products formerly sold separately. Integrating processes from autonomous units (or even separate companies) poses political and organizational challenges often greater than the technical challenges.