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How One CEO Prepared Her Organization for Her Retirement

Harvard Business Review

I had taken one step toward this two years ago, when I named one partner president and another chief operating officer. But in recent years, as I’ve become more involved in business development, client relationships, and managing the complexities of operating our company, I have had less time for researching new investment ideas.

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There’s No One System for Paying Your Global Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

Each country has its own market dynamics, business culture, laws, and availability of data for measuring performance. Diversity makes a global sales incentive plan impractical and dangerous.” For example, a medical device company created the following global guidelines for incentive plans for new business development salespeople.