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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Harvard Business Review

companies spend over $900 billion on their sales forces, which is three times more than they spend on all ad media. Simultaneously, sales managers went through a series of development sessions to develop their coaching skills. Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms.

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The Factors Behind China’s Growing Strength in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Western media has been quite critical of the Chinese miracle. Having a manufacturing ecosystem confers several benefits. A prototype that takes two weeks to develop in Silicon Valley can be created overnight in Shenzhen. and other developed countries will find difficult to match. Unlike in the U.S.,