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Workforce, Population, Jobs by Age-Group

MishTalk

Those in sales and marketing you should focus on the 55+ age group. As usual, all data not adjusted for seasonality, just direct comparisons of actual data year on year. The charts show something I have repeatedly said since 2008: "kids will be competing with their parents and grandparents for jobs that do not pay a living wage.".

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In 1954, Hay continued its trailblazing ways, started the “Hay Compensation Survey Comparisons”, a tool that allowed companies to remain competitive in terms of the compensation they offered their staff, and continued to see sustained levels of growth. Reward strategies. Enterprise sales effectiveness. Industries .

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Credit Crunch Underway: Can Recession Be Far Behind?

MishTalk

The category of sales slid to 57.9 It is suddenly very hard to get and this looks like the situation that existed at the start of the recession in 2008 [2007 actually]. The overall economy didn’t look all that bad in late 2008, except that there was a dearth of credit and that soon led to business failures and struggles.

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Prestigious Firms Make Riskier Acquisitions Than Other Firms

Harvard Business

In the years to come, even after seemingly strong performance, commentators would breathlessly describe Microsoft as having a lost decade , despite tripling sales and increasing profit from $9 billion to $22 billion. At the same time, Microsoft made numerous acquisitions into a variety of new businesses, with varying degrees of success.

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What Uber’s China Deal Says About the Limits of Platforms

Harvard Business

Proponents of this view cite companies such as LinkedIn (founded in 2002 and recently acquired by Microsoft), which ostensibly operates in 200 countries, Airbnb (2008) in 190, and Uber (2009) in 68. To summarize, for all the interest in platforms, they are not a general panacea for the issues that all globalization strategies must confront.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

New ideas and strategies while working on the projects, finding different ways of doing things more effectively; I started feeling enthralled. ” “I became interested in consulting while doing a PhD investigating regional economic integration in East Asia and Japan’s international trade strategy. .”

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The Mindset That Wins Consulting Work With Fortune 500 Companies with Mindy Millward: Podcast #24

Consulting Success

In this episode, we are discussing the importance of maintaining a long-term strategy and vision for your marketing and networking. Listen to the podcast here: Long-term strategies in marketing and networking offer the greatest rewards for the most successful consultants. You’re like, “ We also do strategy.