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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. True, we can point to the fact that airplanes are massively engineered for reliability, but let’s look beyond the machinery. logistics, and finance. Assign a leader to this organization and establish a leadership team to support that person.

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Stop Selling and Add Value | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. Today’s consumer (B2B or B2C) does their homework, is well informed, and buys…they are not sold. A sales person is trying to sell them something.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Financed by VC firms. Unicorns are: Small in size. Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3