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Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Global mindset is truly having the desire, knowledge, and skills to operate effectively in business today. One needs to know how to negotiate with vendors, sell to customers, and lead productive teamwork across regions – often in multiple countries at the same time. We need to take it as seriously as we do other business operations.
In the CEO Afterlife
DECEMBER 7, 2014
To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. This turnaround occurred at Jacobs Suchard’s North American operation, eventually sold to Kraft/Mondelez after many years of profitable growth as a coffee specialist.
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Skip Prichard
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. Whether a business sells autos, groceries, clothing, computers, bicycles, or raw materials to a manufacturer of industrial products, it wants to be the preferred provider of those products. ” -Stan Silverman.
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
As a larger operation, it gets a bit tougher. operates their own business. For the IRS to deem the person an independent contractor you tell them the scope of work and what the end product needs to be and the contractor decides how to complete it. Who pays travel expenses? As a one man shop. Who buys tools and materials?
Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. systems, air travel feels a bit more like a chore than like a treat. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. In the U.S., This issue can become a major performance barrier.
Women on Business
JANUARY 24, 2011
Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 18, 2013
As economic conditions improve across Africa, these folks are the first to know and the first to scale up their operations. Because even were you to find consumers interested in your products, you may struggle to serve them because your assumptions about customer-service skills in the local market may turn up to be completely flawed.
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