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Why Knowing Your Customers’ Needs is Key to Business Success

Strategy Driven

When getting to know your customers, take the following aspects into account: Demographics: Consider age, gender, income level, education, and occupation as these factors impact customer preferences and needs. This understanding helps you tailor marketing messages and product offerings to your target audience.

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5 Signs Your Organization Might Be Headed for an Ethics Scandal

Harvard Business Review

The reputations of other teams suffer as they appear to underachieve in comparison. Employee surveys, conversations, and focus groups can help us understand what actually happens in organizations, how seriously stated values and formal processes are taken, and which units or departments may pose the most ethical risk.

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Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

A sponsor is a senior-level leader who elevates their protégé’s visibility within the corridors of power, advocates for key assignments and promotions for them, and puts their reputation on the line for the protégé’s advancement.

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How to Launch a Working Parents’ Support Group in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Maybe there’s an email chain through which new parents in the marketing department swap out gently used baby gear, and maybe Mary over in finance has a reputation as an “on top of it” mom — and ends up mentoring and informally coaching a disproportionate number of colleagues as a result.