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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 He is struggling to understand why it is that HR is not considered a core function of a an organization like sales, marketing, or operations when it is afforded the opportunity to "direct, deliver, and develop" the employee talent necessary for the company to achieve its goals.  Why?  Why?

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Marketers Need to Stop Focusing on Loyalty and Start Thinking About Relevance

Harvard Business Review

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. Maslow sought to map the psychological needs of humans and their motivations.

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People Are the Puck

Harvard Business Review

The Great One's well-known words are often repeated in corporate corridors during discussions about understanding market trends. Technologies will change, distribution channels for content will change, usage environments will change. "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been" - Wayne Gretzky. Think about it.

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What Apple Gets Right with Its Smartwatch

Harvard Business Review

When we think of needs and products we often go right to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs , the ubiquitous theory that human needs manifest in a specific sequence, from base survival to the pinnacle of self-actualization. If Maslow was right, brands needed to target a single need, satisfy it well, and be done.