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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. If the culture of a company is about countless checklists, policies and procedures, employees will begin to look over their shoulders rather than doing a fantastic job.

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

Harvard Business

My senior year in college, a black sales rep from IBM encouraged me and a group of fellow black students to consider a career with the company. When I joined the company, my branch sales manager — someone I considered a field office general — was black, as were many of my instructors.

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The cost of hiring a consultant for small business in 2023

Asamby Consulting

They're typically engaged by clients who have solid sales or have seen tremendous growth and struggle to keep up with delivery. They identify potential to improve results by looking at your numbers and comparing it to benchmarks. What makes sense: ROI The other financial metric you have to look at is your return on investment (ROI).

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Collect Your Employees’ Data Without Invading Their Privacy

Harvard Business

The hypothesis can be as specific as “underperforming customer accounts are not getting as much time investment as high-performing accounts,” or as general as “correlations will be found between people analytics metrics and business outcome x,” but the outcome needs to matter. Default to anonymity and aggregation.

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