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It’s not the company. It’s the people in the company. It’s you.

Strategy Driven

Your commitment to being your best. Companies spend millions, sometimes billions of dollars in advertising, branding, merchandising, strategizing, and every other element of marketing that they believe will bring business success. Do you just go to pass the time for a paycheck, or are you there to earn your pay with hard work?

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How to Hire a CEO You Won’t Want to Fire

Harvard Business Review

Then: commit to a process by which the potential leaders they consider will be honestly, consistently assessed against those criteria and a winner will emerge. Among the others was merchandising experience, which the heir apparent, like his mentor, had in spades. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves.

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The Consequences of No Consequences

Frank Sonnenberg Online

It’s a normal phase in a child’s development that’s marked by a burning desire for independence. What happens when someone shows disrespect, tells a lie , bullies a peer, uses foul language, gets into a fight, cheats to win, steals merchandise — and there are no consequences? Wrongs committed by enough people become the norm.

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How to Hire a CEO You Won’t Want to Fire

Harvard Business Review

Then: commit to a process by which the potential leaders they consider will be honestly, consistently assessed against those criteria and a winner will emerge. Among the others was merchandising experience, which the heir apparent, like his mentor, had in spades. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Statistics Tree: Understanding Figures and What They Symbolize, Relating Directly to Your Business Success

Strategy Driven

Business development. Employee theft and shoplifting accounting for 15% of the retail cost of merchandise. Training and development of people. Commitments to quality at all links in the chain. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. What is their commitment toward literacy, social services, health care, the environment, multicultural diversity and other key issues that really create a better life?

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