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Becoming More Self-Aware To Improve How We Communicate

Tanveer Naseer

However, what’s equally important is understanding how to be an effective communicator when it comes to giving presentations – whether it’s those large presentations like giving the annual company report to employees and/or shareholders, or something on a smaller scale like presenting a proposal to your team or department.

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The Business Investments That Freak People Out

Harvard Business Review

She told the New York Times that paying above-market wages means the CEO is running Gravity “more as a charitable organization, because he could get people for less.” The IT department could get the least expensive computers and hosting services available, and marketing could buy the lowest-cost banner ads on the cheesiest sites.

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3 Changes Retailers Need to Make to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Making matters more challenging, these shifts are happening across practically every retail category – books, entertainment, housewares, clothing, food, financial services, and even energy. Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams.

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Use a Brand Council to Help Steer Strategy

Harvard Business Review

David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, once observed that “Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing people.” And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A brand can’t just be a promise; it must be a promise delivered.

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Rescuing Capitalism from Itself

Harvard Business Review

In the United States, the inclination has been to fix capitalism, mainly with proposals for what I call adjectival capitalism: Sustainable Capitalism, Caring Capitalism, Inclusive Capitalism, Conscious Capitalism, and others. We “human resources” have the capacity to act as resourceful human beings.

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