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If Your Business isn’t Agile, You Won’t Have a Future. It’s That Simple

Great Leadership By Dan

So rapid is the pace of new developments, and so diverse the forms of competition, that many large corporations struggle to be agile enough to compete. Tiny niche players can emerge from nowhere to take the market or make expensively researched products obsolete overnight. Is it possible to get the best of both worlds?

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Three Key Criteria for Choosing the Right Custom Learning Partner

The Center For Leadership Studies

As organizations redefine their talent development strategies, many are looking to outsource custom learning development to accelerate and enhance their offerings. With the abundance of training and content development providers available, the search can be daunting. So, how do you find the right learning partner?

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people. Provide opportunities for development and involvement. . Retaining High-Impact Performers .

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

That includes individual development goals. In a business context, individual development goals should be closely aligned with your short and long term job responsibilities. Each and every person’s situation is different, so there is no one-size-fits-all development plan. Career-wise, this is the granddaddy of development moves.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character. Even when the boom in MBA programs coincided with the rise of Marketing as a discipline, Sales was treated like a stepchild at best. ”In other words, why serve hamburger when you can teach people to cook steak?

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Traditional Marketing Planning Is Wrong for Your New Venture

Harvard Business Review

Traditional marketing planning (TMP) activities have been a mainstay for the past four decades, but the theories behind them have limited relevance for new ventures facing extreme uncertainty. To be successful, new ventures must eschew these theories and instead rely on effectual marketing planning.