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August 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the August 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! In the post, Jim explains, “With Baby Boomers marching steadily towards the retirement door, it’s time to take stock and reflect how we pass the torch to the next generations: Gen X and Gen Y, the latter generation having particular job market challenges.”

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How to Sharpen Your Digital Marketing in 2017

Strategy Driven

Everyone is doing digital marketing as a way to promote their products, services, and brands these days. The measurable nature of digital marketing and the fact that even small businesses can achieve great results with a good campaign make digital marketing very appealing to more and more businesses. Leave It to Experts.

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

It’s less common for poor management to be targeted to explain lackluster productivity, but research from Stanford’s Nick Bloom suggests that is a mistake. Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K.,

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The Best Leadership Books of 2017

Leading Blog

It’s typically not the player with the highest market value. Open Source Leadership rewrites the rules of management, giving you a unique look at the most common misperceptions, illusions, and downright wrong information you’ve been getting about what works and what doesn’t. And so teams choose the wrong people to lead them.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets. It will most likely overcome cross-cultural barriers as it expands into new markets.

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Marketing After the Purchase: 4 Emails to Educate Your Customer (Jill Schiefelbein)

Let's Grow Leaders

Yet many digital marketers stop communicating once their marketing is successful and a purchase is made. If you’re not taking this opportunity to extend your marketing, you’re missing a potential gold mine. Remember, once your marketing is successful you still have a lot of work to do. You can never stop paying attention.

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5 types of print marketing that could help your business to improve its bottom line

Strategy Driven

“Print marketing is dead.” However, the figures tell a different story: in 2017 alone, printing marketing generated a 190% stronger response than in the year prior, while 43% more customers responded to direct mail in that period. Where have you previously heard or read that phrase? Probably in quite a few places. Outdoor signs.

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