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Are You Managing or Just Nagging?

Great Leadership By Dan

Four universal truths about management: 1. Managers are responsible for the performance of those that report to them. One of the core responsibilities of a manager is to take action when an employee’s performance is not up to par. In other words, they feel their manager is a nag. Sometimes it’s measurable, but not always.

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10 Key Things to Avoid in B2B Cold Calling

Strategy Driven

The above suggests that telemarketers have some way to go in terms of provision of information from a telemarketing call. Fail to Plan and plan to fail” is a well-used expression and it definitely applies to telemarketing. A telemarketer that just trusts to luck is likely to fail. Don’t Sound like a Telemarketer.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

For example, organizations can leverage a compelling value proposition to strengthen its profit and people propositions or build on a powerful people proposition to create a strong value proposition, which in turn strengthens the profit proposition, which makes imitation that much more difficult.