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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

The new CxO will be tasked to define and craft strategy, make investment proposals, and defend them, so they have depth in the related sector and a brain the size of an elephant. Sales and marketing positions appear to provide broader sector hunting grounds, but reality can be different, and there are still many constraints.

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William Donaldson on Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leading Blog

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. Of course, an entrepreneurial leader needs to know about subjects like financial management, competitive strategy, market analysis, and the like. Donaldson and Karl Weber extract relevant lessons for leaders in Entrepreneurial Leader.

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August 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

They achieved their goal of increased sales and were pleasantly surprised by an unexpected ROI.” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Five Ways to Change Negative Perceptions at Work. Initially people can be frustrated to be questioned about the evidence and reasoning behind the proposed actions they support.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. CMI’s proposal has already been picked up in the media and some key influencers. One goal might be to impress your boss.

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Craft a Sustainable Career

Harvard Business Review

Imagine crafting a sustainable career for yourself. You are confident that your skills and competencies make you valuable and marketable and that you can access opportunities through your network. Economic stagnation and unequal access to opportunity keep a sustainable career out of reach of many.

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There's Still Time

Women on Business

Our careers are a means to an end and if we’re lucky, it’s a means to happiness and joy because we love what we do! If your mind is full of things you keep meaning to get done, your head won’t be in the game Do the hard stuff first: outbound sales calls, proposals, etc. Because I believe they are. Interesting thoughts.

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How a Sales Manager Can Think Like a Leader

Strategy Driven

Almost every sales manager was, at one point in their career, a peak-performing sales professional, top dog on the team. Whether reps can shape a proposal or presentation that presents the best possible case to the customer. When promoted, everything changed—except, perhaps, them. War #3: Tasks vs. People.