The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In other cases, the salesperson might be told to submit a Product Modification Input Solicitation form to product development, marketing, and three other committees to review. That’s why the accuracy of economists and experts’ confident and logical-sounding projections and predictions is so abysmal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. Earlier in her career, she left a position as SVP of business development and emerging businesses to join Boston Scientific in a senior line job. The live event could have failed in many ways; the safe thing to do would have been to back off the project.

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Harvard Business Review

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This memo “defines everything you do” for the organization, describes where each of your projects stands and identifies the specific colleagues or temporary workers who will “fill in for you during your leave,” she says. “Think about [your leave] as an opportunity to help other people develop,” she says.

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