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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. Young leaders engage in an “action learning” project in which they work on real-life problems facing the firm. Retaining High-Impact Performers . These seven steps can help you: 1.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Furthermore, if your company isn’t leveraging action learning to develop leaders, fuel innovation, foster collaboration, and catalyze growth then you are missing a substantial opportunity. My message is a simple one…stop pondering and pontificating make a decision and take action.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Even when the boom in MBA programs coincided with the rise of Marketing as a discipline, Sales was treated like a stepchild at best. Each group has its own operating procedures.

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Traditional Marketing Planning Is Wrong for Your New Venture

Harvard Business Review

Traditional marketing planning (TMP) activities have been a mainstay for the past four decades, but the theories behind them have limited relevance for new ventures facing extreme uncertainty. To be successful, new ventures must eschew these theories and instead rely on effectual marketing planning.

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Innovation Isn’t the Answer to All Your Problems

Harvard Business Review

Run an action-learning program to develop the top leadership team’s ability to confront ambiguity. Hitting growth and profit objectives, then, requires boosting the ability to create new businesses that wouldn’t naturally result from day-to-day operations. Set up a new-growth group. Launch an idea contest.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. And he was considered an expert!

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