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Why Leaders Need To Stop Using Performance Reviews

Tanveer Naseer

Argument 1: Performance reviews can put off for up to a year what needs attention now Performance reviews can be a passive-aggressive haven for managers afraid to lead in the present. One of your most promising managers has just led a two-year late-to-market death march on a brand extension that has launched and failed.

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

Hispanics as votes they can buy through inauthentic sales tactics. For example, many brands that have made unsuccessful and unprofitable attempts to market to Hispanic consumers using inauthentic tactics have now decided to lump Hispanics into what they call " total market " strategies. Think profit center, not cost center.

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

Hispanics as votes they can buy through inauthentic sales tactics. For example, many brands that have made unsuccessful and unprofitable attempts to market to Hispanic consumers using inauthentic tactics have now decided to lump Hispanics into what they call " total market " strategies. Think profit center, not cost center.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". In reality, both views were right. Let's look at some top macro- and company-level stories. Macro Trends.