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Career Shifting: Leaping lanes mid-career.

Roundtable Talk

Paula Roberts , EVP of Plan Canada , Joe Chidley , SVP of Corporate & Public Affairs at Veritas Communications and Colleen Albiston , Head of Marketing & Communications, Tax for KPMG Global , shared some of their top lessons and insights from their respective career shifts. And, don’t forget to stand out from the crowd.

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Stimulate Your Customer's Lizard Brain to Make a Sale

Harvard Business Review

Many marketers and salespeople believe they are in a selling war against their direct competition. Here's the root cause of the problem: most marketing and sales efforts focus on the wrong messaging and therefore do not stimulate the correct part of a prospect's brain.

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How Story Platforms Help Global Brands Go Local

Harvard Business Review

One solution to this tension is to pursue what we call glocal advertising strategy — locally adapting a universally embraced core idea that will resonate in any market anywhere in the world.". The key question for global brands is, "How can marketers pull it off consistently?". It''s not easy to do, however.

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