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B2B Salespeople Need to Act More Like Travel Agents

Harvard Business

By 2012, our research shows, nearly 60% of a typical B2B purchasing decision — researching solutions, ranking options, benchmarking pricing, and so on — was happening before the buyer even had a conversation with a supplier. Consider the revolving door of experts, colleagues, vendors, and their specialists.

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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business

Using an EEOC database of employment data by race, gender, and job classification, it assesses management diversity with a ratio of minorities’ representation in management to their representation in non-managerial professional levels, a metric that Ascend calls executive parity index (EPI).

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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

Harvard Business

According to Gallup’s oft-cited research on the topic , just about one-third of U.S. But based on our research with several large companies, we want to offer a word of caution: Engagement is often an ambiguous term. The holy grail of today’s workplace is high employee engagement. employees are engaged on the job.

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

Our research shows that digital transformation is paying off for those who embrace it: Digitally transformed organizations (“digital leaders”) performed much better than organizations that lagged behind (“digital laggards”), effectively creating a “digital divide” across companies. for leaders and 3.2%

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In Praise of Extreme Moderation

Harvard Business

Young Millennials, driven to distraction and depression by nonstop, constantly comparative online benchmarking, can’t unglue from phones-as-performance-measuring-devices. Extreme foodies start the day with complex green drinks made from the latest expensive seeds and vegan plants from a distant country. Who can blame them?

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How to Make Your Post-Merger Reorg a Success

Harvard Business

Over the past year, we carried out an online survey of 2,500 reorgs (you can still complete the survey and benchmark your reorg here ). Yet earlier research we conducted for our book suggests that setting quantitative targets is essential for driving success. What ensures that M&A-driven reorganizations are successful?

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Friday Fusion: July 10, 2020

Tsavo Neal

Your skills remind of me Matt Olpinski, a freelancer/consultant featured in my article on the best consultant websites : Here’s what Matt had to say about his freelancing website: The main reason why I have the website is because I don’t want to waste time, money, and energy on chasing down new clients. Don’t bother with freelance websites.

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