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Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another

MishTalk

Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another "Soft Patch"? Retail sales were up 0.4% May retail sales were revised lower, to +0.5% Here are some retail sales comments from Bloomberg to help put things into perspective. percent in June, the most since February 2008. Sales dropped 2.2

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business

Sales isn’t what you do. Lines like this are still used all too frequently when employees tell their managers that they want to move in a new direction. Managers are under tremendous pressure to generate results. Part of your job will be to manage this uncertainty. You’re not a data scientist. Hire to train.

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Avoid Burnout by Asking This Question

Harvard Business

After nearly flunking Economics 101 and striking out with a majority of sports and teams, I finally found my home among a group of interfaculty misfits at the Golden Words comedy newspaper. When I started writing my blog, 1000 Awesome Things , in 2008, I said I’d never put ads on the website. Bring your best self to work.

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How Gatorade Invented New Products by Revisiting Old Ones

Harvard Business

Company leaders and product managers worry that these core products have been around for years and may not be able to deliver much more. Consider the example of Gatorade in 2008. When Sarah Robb O’Hagan agreed to take over Gatorade in 2008, she thought she was assuming leadership of an iconic brand that had grown a little tired.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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Better Data Analysis; Improved Business Performance - Think.

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--> -->. ); 1to1 Media is a division of Peppers & Rogers Group, a leader in Management Consulting. Sales Effectiveness. Sales Effectiveness. Hard Knox Life: A Brand Manager Blog. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Back towww.1to1media.com. 1to1media.com. Marketing Research Articles. CRM Best Practices. Social Media.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.