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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets. We adopted a tactic I learned from Andrew Youn, Founder of One Acre Fund, to counteract this pinch. Recruiting new técnicos has been a further bottleneck to scaling.

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The Most Overused Negotiating Tactic Is Threatening to Walk Away

Harvard Business Review

How does it define its market, or in the case of an NGO or government agency, its central purpose? What is its current place in that market, and what does it want its strategic place to be in the market in the near future and longer term? Research the market, the person, the entity, etc.,

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Toffel: I thought Paul Polman was spot-on when he was breaking down the challenge of corporate sustainability into tactical and systemic issues. Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality.

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. How can you accelerate customer adoption of the best solutions?