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The Freelance Economy Still Runs on Word of Mouth

Harvard Business Review

But we’re not quite there yet, according to a new survey conducted for MBO Partners, which provides back-office services to independent workers — which it dubs “solopreneurs.” They ranked sales and marketing sixth. Yeah, I was with Lotus Development for a long time, mostly overseas. Overall, there are now an estimated 17.9

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How PwC and The Washington Post Are Finding and Hiring External Talent

Harvard Business Review

A key feature of PwC’s talent exchange is to develop and foster a long-term relationship between PwC and independent workers. Independent workers also benefit from exposure to more opportunities and less need to spend time networking and marketing their services.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

A survey conducted for the past three years on behalf of MBO Partners , a provider of support services for independent workers, counts temp workers, on-call workers, and those on fixed-term contracts as “independent workers.” Given that the actual research commissioned by MBO says that there are now about 17.7

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it. The world appeared predictable.

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There’s No One System for Paying Your Global Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

One of the big challenges for the people leading global sales organizations is figuring out the right way to set pay for for salespeople who work in vastly different countries and markets. Each country has its own market dynamics, business culture, laws, and availability of data for measuring performance. Develop Global Guidelines.