Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

By Guest Author Francis Cholle. When L’Oréal, the world leading beauty company, asked me to design global training programs to help with the management of creative teams I had to reflect deeply about business success at the intersection of creativity and management. I realized that the source of creativity and sustainability is the same: the balance of reason and instinct.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Don't blame Martin Van Buren for America's first deflationary depression. Social mood rode higher in the saddle than did our 8th President, who only stood 5' 6". Elected in 1836, by the time Van Buren assumed office in March 1837 a speculative bubble had burst and a banking crisis was at hand (sound familiar?) -- the national mood had turned south and the "Panic of 1837" followed.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Robert Louis Stevenson said, "Everyone lives by selling something." Yet, most people don’t understand the sales process and their part within it. Business owners constantly worry about the selling function and how it affects their ability to manage the firm’s cash flow. "It's sad that something as important to the economy as sales shows up as a footnote in the principles of marketing course at most graduate business schools," says Andy Zoltners, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellog

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

According to nearly everyone running for office, we are now in a "jobs crisis.". Even with all the attention on hiring, the government's ability to create jobs is pretty dispiriting, no matter who is in charge. One reason we have so few ideas about job creation is that up until recently, the U.S. economy had been growing so well for so long that few economists spent much time studying it.

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