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Stretch Assignments for High Potential Employees

CO2

Secure financing for a key acquisition. Convince upper management to support a proposal. Lead people from different cultures, gender, or racial or ethic backgrounds. Lead initiatives that are highly important to the organization and entail multiple functions, groups, or products/services. Negotiate with a large customer.

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How To Find “Hidden” Federal Contracts: Network :: Women on Business

Women on Business

In addition, when your bid is the first time a government agency learns of your company, you can be sure your proposal is heading for the bottom of the pile. Government agencies and their purchasing/contracting officers often rely on pre-existing relationships and preferred vendor lists for all of these less lofty contract awards.

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Recommended Resource – Advocacy

Strategy Driven

Rather, reputation, relationships, timing, and persuasive messaging is needed to garner the attention and buy-in necessary to gain action on one’s proposals. Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear. Recommended Resource – Reviving Work Ethic. Benefits of Using this Reference.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. It could help boost pay equality Tips and tools to help you navigate the slippery slope of business ethics Lessons from Britain’s Most Admired Companies on leading with integrity Should pets be allowed in the office?

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The Importance of Testing in an E-marketing Campaign

Women on Business

Send the email you’re using now (this is your control, or “A”)) to 500 names, and send your proposed new email (“B”) to the other 500. For example, if you have an email list of 100,000 prospects, select every 100th prospect to create a test list of 1,000.

Marketing 162
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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

Lead on Purpose

Maintaining a relationship with executive administrators, travel, finance, sales and development can provide valuable information on travel schedules, agendas and the details that will reinforce the emergence of Flying Monkeys. Another avenue that many product management leaders fail to utilize is internal relationships.

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Case Study: Can an Ethical Bank Support Guns and Fracking?

Harvard Business Review

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Ethics Finance'