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The New World Of Enterprise Sales

Strategy Driven

On the other hand, sales is still sales – and it is all about gaining the trust of the buyer with a product or solution that will fulfill their needs. 2) Vendors could conduct live presentations of their products, or slick slide presentations, in front of their prospects. The products gained in functionality and became more expensive.

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Federal Contracts Depend on Your Report Card

Women on Business

Was company management responsive to the agency? Were subcontractors well managed? Were costs forecast and managed accurately (not applicable for firm-fixed-price or firm-fixed-price with economic price adjustment contracts)? Did the quality of your products or services meet/exceed the contract?

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When the Leader Needs Help

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Bobby Martin : There comes a time for every founder of a rapidly growing entrepreneurial business when you have to decide if you can be the one to both lead and manage into and through this growth stage. This is a tricky juncture, when you transition from scrappy, creation mode into organizational development mode.

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. I’m just not a believer in attempting to label someone as a leader, and develop them as such when they are clearly not.

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To Achieve a Major Goal, First Tackle a Few Small Ones

Harvard Business Review

You can see the final product, but you can’t see all of the steps required to get there. However, becoming a published author requires thinking about getting an agent and a publisher, writing a proposal, working with an editor, and developing a plan for promoting the book after it’s published. Rebecca Knight. Dorie Clark.

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Courtside Seats to the Best (And Worst) C-Suites

Harvard Business Review

As a management consultant, I often have a courtside seat to the senior team discussions of many companies. They have to make choices across the business in terms of investment opportunities or talent development — where to place executives to develop skills as future leaders, for instance.

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Is How You Deliver Feedback Doing More Harm than Good?

Harvard Business Review

And yet when feedback sessions are poorly delivered, they harm employee engagement and productivity levels. As the famous Dunning-Krueger effect demonstrates, the less competent people are, the less self-aware they are, so poor performers are particularly likely to benefit from a reality check. Feedback is key to improving performance.