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The In’s and Out’s of Marketing Nuance: Why you struggle to communicate with Marketer

CEO Insider

Marketing people not only wear many hats, have unique skill sets, and are creatives by nature. Talking to marketing professionals is like knowing the technical jargon of coders or the medical terminology of physicians. However, most businesses don’t know the lingo of marketing. They also live and breathe by nuance.

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Why the great resignation can be stopped with a great conversation

CEO Insider

Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […]. Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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How to Hire the Best Employees for Your Company

Strategy Driven

If you are looking to hire someone that can fill up a graphic designer role, an electrical engineer, an architect or anything else it might be, you want to make sure the person has the experience or background in that field.

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How Western Multinationals Are Responding to the Escalating U.S.-China Trade War

Harvard Business Review

Lower-wage countries like Vietnam and Cambodia have little spare production or skilled human capacity left, even in relatively low-skilled sectors like textiles and garments, let alone the advanced precision tooling, materials handling, and process engineering and development skills that a U.S. Yuji Sakai/Getty Images. or European brand.