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Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path

Strategy Driven

We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. It not only teaches buyers how to get the requisite buy-in so their daily functioning won’t be compromised – managing the people, policies, technology, and old vendor, etc. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem

Harvard Business Review

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.”

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