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Friday Fusion: August 21, 2020

Tsavo Neal

Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! I wrote and designed websites to help businesses exceed their KPIs — improving metrics like conversion rate, session duration, bounce rate, search engine optimization, page speed, and mobile responsiveness.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Here are five more proven ways that effective leadership impacts individuals, teams, and organizations. Journal of Public Relations Research, 26: 256–279.

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If You Think Downsizing Might Save Your Company, Think Again

Harvard Business

American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Proponents of downsizing argue that it is an effective strategy, with benefits such as increased performance and sales. During the Great Recession of 2008, companies around the world downsized their workforces.

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The Best Business Decisions Put People First - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBX

Harvard Business

The best business decisions are never ones of strategy, sales, or marketing. Instead, Jane’s successes are attributed to things like product decisions: Release of New Phone Drives Sales at Doe Industries. I became the CEO of a manufacturing company in 2010 after a completing management buyout with some outside investors.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

In many functional areas, such as plant maintenance, purchasing, sales calls, or accounting, more traditional structures and processes likely will deliver lower cost, more repeatable outcomes and more scalable organizations. So in 2010, Holm decided to run his nine-member executive group as an agile team.

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The Forecasting Sweet Spot Between Micro and Macro

Harvard Business

All of these things can dramatically influence your need for products and services. In areas where Christianity is growing, sales of Western-style formal fashions are likely to grow too, since Christianity usually carries a strong acceptance and influence of Western culture and clothing.

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