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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. With input from their managers, peers, and teams, leaders know what they need to focus on when it comes to their development.

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Strategizing for Success: Keys for Planning Annual Sales & Marketing Goals, part 2 of 2

Strategy Driven

How did you do in the area of time management? For instance, how many hours of sleep did you average per night this year, and how many hours would you need to achieve optimal energy for top business performance? How did you do in the area of training? How did you do in the area of motivating your team?

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. There are very few people who have at some point in their lives not taken up a caregiver’s role. In the U.S.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

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Boards Aren’t the Right Way to Monitor Companies

Harvard Business Review

Such rules rest on the premise that if we can just structure the board properly, management misconduct can largely be prevented. GE states, “The primary role of GE’s Board of Directors is to oversee how management serves the interests of shareowners and other stakeholders.”

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. of government revenue was derived from energy in the first half of FY 16. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. The Opportunities.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. That helped account managers focus their pitch on the client’s business issues and build rapport. And that really is on the backs of marketing.”

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