Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Jason Richmond is President & CEO of Ideal Outcomes, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

The massive productive capacity that the industrial revolution had brought about was spinning out of control. So matrices, in a sense, led to the worst of both worlds, a cumbersome organizational structure and the inability to adapt to fast changing contexts. The truth is that networks are informal structures.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Forty-four percent of underperforming sales managers indicated they had a nonexistent or an informal structured sales process. Great sales leaders possess the knowledge to correctly deploy field or inside salespeople, to segment the market into verticals, and to specialize sales teams by product or customer types when necessary.

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