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Three Key Criteria for Choosing the Right Custom Learning Partner

The Center For Leadership Studies

As organizations redefine their talent development strategies, many are looking to outsource custom learning development to accelerate and enhance their offerings. With the abundance of training and content development providers available, the search can be daunting. So, how do you find the right learning partner?

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Michael Marquardt: A second interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Mike also serves as President of the World Institute for Action Learning. He has held a number of senior management, training and marketing positions and has trained managers in over 100 countries since beginning his international experience in Spain in [.].

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How to Achieve Better Gender Balance through Succession Planning and Development

Great Leadership By Dan

According to research from the book Why Woman Mean Business , women now represent a majority of the talent pool, a majority of the market, and better gender balance in leadership yields better corporate performance. MARKET : Women make 80% of consumer goods purchasing decisions in the US.

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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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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century. And companies performed the training, not schools. It should continue with the cross-disciplinary study relevant to realistic training in the area.

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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. Competing more effectively in existing markets is a completely different problem. What should leaders do to boost their organization’s ability to innovate? There’s a seemingly endless list of options to consider.