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Managing Remote Teams: Tips and Strategies for Success

HR Digest

Fortunately, there are several tips and strategies that managers can use to improve the engagement and productivity of remote workers. In this article, we’ll explore some of the best practices for managing remote teams. By focusing on outcomes, managers can empower remote workers to be more creative and independent.

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The Sales Role Multinationals Need in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

When we surveyed over 160 global executives, we found that companies who hired a dedicated channel manager to manage their third-party distribution relationships within the last five years reported a 11.1% This means that distributors are nearly always undermanaged vis-à-vis direct sales when the manager has a dual mandate.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Typical systems are fragmented between disciplines like HR (which focuses on the internal, “permanent” workforce) and Procurement (which focuses on the external, “contingent” workforce), each with different and competing goals. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated? Create one integrated workforce strategy.

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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, we created a global Social Media Center of Expertise (CoE), staffed by about 600 people in five regions from the marketing, communications, and customer care teams, with the goal of enhancing the company’s market-based decision making (part of CEO Mary Barra’s mantra of earning customers for life ). Insight Center.

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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

the goals are aligned. The alignment of investors' interests with the executive team's goals. On day one of a new venture, the executive team and the investors are on the same page; both plan for a big outcome. Companies get offers to be acquired, but at much lower valuation than the original dream goal.

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