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Three Critical Success Factors of Rainmaker Sales People

Sales Wolf Blog

» May 10, 2010 Three Critical Success Factors of Rainmaker Sales People We are often asked, "Why do some sales people seemingly have what it takes while others do not?"    There are three critical success factors that true "hunter" or "Rainmaker" sales people must have.

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Top 6 Tips for Project Management Success

Strategy Driven

Set Realistic Goals. A helpful project management tip is to set realistic goals. Setting goals and milestones to reach will help keep the project on track until it’s completed. One of the critical success factors in project management is understanding the ins and outs of the project. Prepare Your Team.

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Innovation's Nine Critical Success Factors

Harvard Business Review

Organizational change is driven by marketplace factors: customers, competition, government regulation, and science and technology. Third, evaluate the innovation leader for managing disciplined experiments, not for hitting short-term profit goals. Open-minded exploration of the marketplace drivers of innovation.

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The First Two Steps Toward Breaking Down Silos in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

They change because they are forced to by customers, by competition, by advances in science and technology, and by government regulation. But it doesn't work unless leadership leads, and helps everyone understand why change and innovation must happen and why they need to work together in new and different ways toward a common goal.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

It can sometimes seem like magic when we get the right people together with the right attitude, motivated to work toward a common goal. One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. Insight Center.

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I Broke All Six Rules for Finding the Right IT Vendor

Harvard Business Review

That all-too-willing contractor who tried and failed to do my flooring has given me a new framework for thinking about vendor selection for ERP implementations, a critical success factor I've written about in my research. Objectivity should be the goal. The lessons can be boiled down to six rules.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.