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Three Communication Tips Every Leader Should Use

Great Leadership By Dan

I had just wrapped up a “Brief Leadership” seminar with a group of manufacturing managers and one of their senior leaders pulled me aside afterward. Many managers feel that way when they realize the impact they have on others when they get lost in their own words. “I wish I knew how important brevity was for me 30 years ago.”

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5 Must-Read Books For Business Leaders For Summer 2013

Eric Jacobson

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. If you don''t market your business, you won''t have one. Edited by Edward T. His advice?

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Marketers, Let Your Egos Go

Harvard Business Review

For senior marketers, it is a very humbling thought. What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn''t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the brand''s actual advertising performance? What if, in short, what your company really needs is not a marketer, but a data scientist ?

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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business Review

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Data-Driven Marketing. The science of storytelling and brand performance. Marcus Winther/Getty Images. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google.

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Data Alone Won’t Get You a Standing Ovation

Harvard Business Review

.” And she said, “But the thing I liked about your talk is you’re a storyteller. So I think what I’ll do is just call you a storyteller.” I thought, you know, I am a storyteller. And maybe I’m just a storyteller.”. As Brown suggests, we’re all storytellers. million deaths a year.

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Why Marketing Analytics Hasn’t Lived Up to Its Promise

Harvard Business Review

The most recent results from The CMO Survey conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and sponsored by Deloitte LLP and the American Marketing Association reports that the percentage of marketing budgets companies plan to allocate to analytics over the next three years will increase from 5.8% Data-Driven Marketing.