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11 Secrets of Tactful and Diplomatic Selling - CEO Blog - Time.

CEO Blog

I studied how to sell and developed these 11 secrets of making tactful and diplomatic sales. 3 - Let the idea incubate. Ive authored a Time Leadership Audio CD, book and eBook ; "How to use the Secrets of Leadership for Time Management".email Much of this has to do with ego and respect. 2 - Speak highly of everyone.

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators. These investments are more about the development of human capital than finance. I recently wrote an ebook asking Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become ?

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Investors Punish Amazon for Investing in Disruptive Growth

Harvard Business Review

Additionally, Amazon has been rapidly acquiring the servers necessary to support the cloud-enabled businesses (ebooks, video, music, apps, and web services) that the company sees as its future. Amazon, it appears, is willing to wait as long as it takes to develop a portfolio of disruptive-growth businesses.