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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

Next Level Blog

The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. The book was written a long time ago and things change. OK, that was a pretty long checklist. You couldn’t have two or three, you had to pick one.

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Workplace and Life Advice You Can Use

Leading Blog

Schein : “The warning signs are never ‘cultural.’ Ira Chaleff : “Intelligent Disobedience is the term used in training guide dogs for people who are blind. Carmine Gallo : “Here’s a great exercise for anyone with an idea, product, or service to pitch—explain it in a sentence short enough to fit in a Twitter post. Communication.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

The term “employee relations” can be defined as the connections within the workplace, focusing on both the employer-employee relationship, as well as the relationship between all employees. These relationships affect a lot of different factors, from employee satisfaction to their productivity within the workplace.

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How Digital Natives Are Changing B2B Purchasing

Harvard Business Review

Conversations focus mainly on negotiating price and payment terms. But along with fax machines and long golf games, these features of B2B life have all but disappeared due to the astonishing change in technology over the past two decades. Contacting a salesperson occurs later in the typical purchase process, and sometimes not at all.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

First, there are the discrete, tangible products that emerge directly from the debrief process. How long can you survive the repetition of the same mistake? And that alone is all well and good but we’ll miss the opportunity to create these short term wins unless we debrief. Debriefing has many benefits. Consider your business.