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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 2)

Markovitz Consulting

This week I’d like to address sales incentives and volume discounts. Incentives and discounts create tremendous disruption in a company’s business by distorting both incoming market signals and outgoing orders to suppliers. It read the increased sales as a sign that consumers had started to like green cars, and ramped up production.

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Saving RadioShack

Tom Spencer

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? RADIOSHACK , an American consumer electronics giant of yesteryear, faced chaotic trading on Wednesday as analysts predicted the company would report it’s 10th straight quarter of losses. Why is the company failing? Source: Flickr ).

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The Key to Campbell Soup’s Turnaround? Civility.

Harvard Business

Whatever your leadership role in your company, you can begin to close the respect gap by infusing more respectful behaviors into your work profile. When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs.

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In the Best Sales Teams, About Half of the People Are in Support Roles

Harvard Business

Sales reps are most effective when they have the right amount of support staff, but exactly how much support staff does a company need, and how should it be structured? Call it a Goldilocks quandary: Too little support, and your sales people can’t do their jobs well; too much, and you’re wasting money.

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Jenny Dearborn Data Driven Strategies

LSA Global

Jenny Dearborn Data Driven: How Performance Analytics Delivers Extraordinary Sales Results. Congratulations to LSA Client, Jenny Dearborn, the Executive Vice President, Human Resources at SAP, for publishing her book: Data Driven: How Performance Analytics Delivers Extraordinary Sales Results. Realistic and Actionable.

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. When promoted to his new role, he inherited a group of district sales managers responsible for selling to hospital systems in their respective geographies. Often, they must play all eight roles to some degree. © HBR.org.

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Consultant Ninja: Finally, two counter-cyclical markets: Management.

Consultant Ninja

After seeing so many markets down, my cousin in the hunting business informed me that gun sales have been surging, due to Obama winning the presidency. The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08. Alvarez & Marsals Bryan Marsal, Lehmans restructuring officer, ``is actually operating the company.