Sat.Dec 31, 2016 - Fri.Jan 06, 2017

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Sales by Objectives (SBO): Sales Planning

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Many of you may consider sales planning as something that is forced on you from headquarters as "Filling out forms to satisfy the home office".and only after completing the forms can you "Get back to work.". In many organizations, typically what happens is this.every year you are asked for your sales plan for the coming year by a certain date. You eventually sit down at your dining room table and write a summary of how you are going to perform your job over the coming 12 months.

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How We Remember and Why We Forget

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Why do so many of us forget where we put our car keys, eyeglasses, or cell phones? According to Readers Digest, the average adult spends 16 hours a year searching for misplaced keys. What we claim to have "forgotten" we simply never knew in the first place; we never paid attention to it. What we labeled "absentmindedness" is, in many ways, just a function of inattention.

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Reshaping Leadership

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New data-driven capabilities are breaking down barriers between formerly siloed business units, flattening out management structures and streamlining production processes, prompting many firms to redraw leadership roles and responsibilities, according to information-technology executives, industry analysts and management consultants. “Companies that transition from a more traditional business model to one built around technology and IT must adopt a management practice that can support this evolu