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The Consultant’s Paradox

Lead Change Blog

Chris Taylor, founder of Actionable Books, spends his daylight hours helping consultants and employees alike find meaning in their work and discover rich team relationships. It’s time to get crystal clear on where your business is headed, and how you’re going to get there.

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Guest Post: 10 Secrets of Effective Leaders

Lead on Purpose

What’s more, with so many different personality styles on your team, finding leadership tactics that work across the board can be a challenge. Here are ten of the most proven tactics that have helped countless managers inspire their team to achieve greatness each and every day: Be a positive thinker. Build relationships of trust.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

In the early 20th century, Frederick Taylor promoted the profitable benefits of business efficiency, productivity, and increasing worker output. Taylor’s business process analysis gave birth to his theory of scientific management, which came to be known by modern-day businesses as, “business process management,” or BPM.

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Medieval Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Country and Western phenom Taylor Swift puts secret messages in her performances, lyrics, and album covers. Marketing was created in this moment. Marketing came to stand for big, bold, simple messages, fired repeatedly at a mass target. The question: when does marketing catch up? The viewing experience grew richer.

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Hamilton’s $849 Tickets Are Priced Too Low

Harvard Business Review

Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of Hamilton , unabashedly explained that he has a fiduciary responsibility to investors to boost prices since the market has demonstrated that tickets were underpriced. We’ve entered a new era, one where consumers understand market-based prices. I doubt it.

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Apple, Spotify, and the Battle over Freemium

Harvard Business Review

This set of aggressive tactics, which could put rival music services at a disadvantage, has triggered preliminary investigations from the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and even the European Union’s Competition Commission. The artist gave up $6 million in revenue by doing so.