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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

The second time I was in the market to buy. How would you approach the market of sales professionals and sales management? Jeffrey, I’m an independent commercial real estate lender and commercial real estate mortgage broker. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Gerhard, No.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

It’s not been a great year for venerable retailer Sears, which is reputed to be closing 130 retail stores and laying off more than 5,000 employees. As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.