Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 6, 2010

 To help, Drea has compiled a great list of 50 ways to manage the stress in your life and achieve balance.  Included are some great thoughts on how an organization should approach its employees' personal brands and the role they play in the "free agent" employment market. .

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

That is All Jesse Harriot, Monster Thinking : 2011 Job Market Trends HR Introvert : Time for Due Diligence on Personal Objectivity Tim Sanders, Sanders Says : Three Lists to Make for 2011 Rachel Suff, XpertHR : New Year's Resolution: Boost Poor Performance?

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Conference Board seeks to drive thought leadership and business results by focusing on four key topical categories: 1) corporate leadership 2) economies, markets, and value creation 3) high-performing organizations, and 4) human capital.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Rob Tucker, Reading About Leading : How to Encourage Others to Take Ownership - Sadly, over the past decade, the idea of employee ownership has become yet another detestable buzzword espoused by disconnected senior leadership and plastered on internal marketing collateral.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

  Tom Foster, Management Skills Blog : Nuclear Winter - Does the uncertainty of the current economic climate still have you hunkered down, playing it safe, and hoping for the return of more prosperous days? Lisa Rosendahl, Simply Lisa : Succession Planning. Fascinating.   Penelope Trunk, BNET : Perfectionism is a Disease. . 

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

 The folks at Monster Thinking are in the trenches of the recruiting and career industry and are highly in tune with what is happening in the employment market.  The folks at Monster Thinking are in the trenches of the recruiting and career industry and are highly in tune with what is happening in the employment market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

 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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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 18, 2010

Most of us are familiar with the concept of "white space" derived from the fields of marketing and graphical design.  Most of us are familiar with the concept of "white space" derived from the fields of marketing and graphical design. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 28, 2010

  Financial markets seem to be in perpetual chaos, our environment is in peril due to natural and man made disasters, and feelings of uncertainty abound in our everyday lives.    Together, the newsletter and blog are a powerful one-two punch to knock the fear out of your life.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

Prahalad, but you'll also get the thoughts and opinions of business professionals from successful start-ups, non-profits, and boutique enterprises that serve very specific niches in their respective markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Musk’s compensation plan, which will give him close to $56 billion in stock and awards if Tesla’s market cap reaches $650 billion, is designed to communicate a particular value proposition to Wall Street. Maintaining that patience requires constant focus on that north star of a half-a-trillion market value.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Its practitioners are the modernization of the much-maligned yet depended-upon middle manager. What Sets Effective Middle Management Apart. How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology'

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

  One unique feature of their knowledge resource center that I particularly like is that in addition to publishing great primary research, they also compile secondary market data and research and organize it into convenient and easy to read tables and graphs that make following government data and macroeconomic trends a breeze. 

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I've reached this conclusion after years working with clients — both on the business side and in technology — carefully observing the ways data help organizations create value, as well as in discussions with other experts (I've won at least a few over). You don't manage people assets the same way you manage capital assets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

” Notice that these questions do not ask exactly what that purpose is, whether it is to save the environment, advance human health, push the technological frontier, or provide cheap and efficient energy for all. The actual purpose of the company can differ wildly across companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. This change is happening more commonly than we think.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

According to an assessment of over 700 sales professionals and senior executives conducted by GrowthPlay — a sales-focused consulting firm where one of us is Managing Director — the problem stems from gaps between the perceptions, attitudes, and information flows between executives and sales reps.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Far from drinking the company Kool-Aid, they had an understanding of why and how the company had to change to deal with new opportunities and challenges posed by changing markets and technology. Fields spent nearly a decade overseas learning how to compete with leaders in the industry in their markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. Connectors in the middle. These people tend not to have — or want — management responsibilities. Critical contractors. Essential Experts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

They assigned different pieces of it to middle managers who had relevant knowledge, experience, and organizational responsibility. Given the importance of this work, all of these managers accepted their assignments. Similarly, a technology firm hired a new president for one of its regions to jump-start local sales growth.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Demand for information often outstrips what you and your managers are able to supply: the consequence is a lack of clarity, which erodes confidence in leadership and strategic direction. Technology convergence won’t just create new product opportunities; it will also increase the challenge of staying ahead of the curve.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

And, like any new technology making its entrance into office life, it was met with profoundly mixed feelings. But behind the fear, excitement, and macroeconomics of it all are the people and places that are deeply affected by new and different technology, day in and day out. How technology is changing the way we work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. downsizing, divestitures, program cancellations) several times over the course of just a few years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Yes, women are graduating from college in higher numbers than men and permeating the workforce — at least at the entry and middle management levels. Women are now stuck in middle management. Goldin’s research finds the smallest gender pay gap for women in technology, pharmacies, and tax preparation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers. The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. Baby-Step UX : By now, your organization has probably dipped its toe into the app market with mixed success. Just look at the. $1

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

An accumulating body of evidence, from social science experiments to middle manager testimonies , suggests that high levels of inequality discourage cooperation and initiative on the ground. As the pay gap between the C-level and the rest of the management grows, the personal jockeying that Brennan is fighting will only increase.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Historically, corporate Goliaths have taken one of two approaches to this kind of upstart competition—try to muscle them out of the market or bring them into the fold through acquisition. But even as we work through these issues, we continue to collaborate on ways technology can transform healthcare, and our role in that.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I previously wished for a Shark-Tank for Corporate America to create more efficient capital markets to fund great innovation ideas bogged down by bureaucracy. Research: Middle Managers Have an Outsized Impact on Innovation. Innovation Talent management' I routinely hear comments like: “Who was on that team?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

This combining of assets, capabilities, markets, and talent pools to create new value is what I call remix strategy — and it is critical today to do this remix right. The first law asks these practical questions: How much more value can we create in the market together? Which partners and structures fit this goal best?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash. Middle managers were confused about what to do, and many pushed their local agendas at the expense of the company's overall best interests. The team decided to adopt a simple-rules approach to the work ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. Equally important, it depends on how well they manage communication throughout their organization. You know their names: Hewlett-Packard. RadioShack.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

 Today I would like to highlight a great resource that comes out each month from LinkUp that will help you keep tabs on which direction the employment market is moving. " Bottom line, if you are in the talent management game in one form or another, it is important to have your finger on the pulse of employment market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

The globalization of talent and technology frees up companies to experiment with new ways of filling critical skill gaps while staying lean. ” While cost is clearly a consideration, managers describe the primary benefits of agile talent as increasing flexibility, speed, and innovation. How technology is changing the way we work.

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