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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. This paper is about rethinking the practice of leadership and reforming the way we approach the development of leaders and leadership in our organizations. Unprepared leaders develop work-arounds.

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5 Pitfalls of Marketing Waterfalls

Strategy Driven

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. One size fits all’ marketing waterfalls are too rigid. One marketing waterfall view has become a catchall.

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The Problem with Good Ideas | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

February 11, 2013. All too often this leads to a loss of trust, miscommunication, and a decrease in morale, not to mention loss of market share or revenue. Bobb Biehl once said that a sign of maturity is putting process between opportunity and response. © 2013 Thoughts for the Everyday Leader — Standard by 8BIT.

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Mistakes That Hinder Sales

Strategy Driven

Playing To Win is a convergence of sports analogies and practical business skills to educate and entertain readers as they further develop their sales abilities. The market is filled with self-help books promising to propel one’s sales career to the top. Why do sales reps stop developing the skills needed to stay on top?

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A Framework for Strategists Assessing Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. We found that the more digitally mature companies grew revenue at six times the rate of their less mature counterparts. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business Review

The increasing acceptance of boomerang employees is partly due to the “tight job market,” according to Michael Watkins, chair of Genesis Advisers , professor at IMD , and author of The First 90 Days. Do: Project maturity by acting more formal and reserved in your first few weeks on the job to showcase how you’ve grown.

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