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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports.

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Case Study: Should a Direct-to-Consumer Company Start Selling on Amazon?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. His two direct reports were split. In the meetings with Gideon it feels like you’ve been holding something back. “Hey, got a minute?” “Hi, Mark.

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LSA Global Delivers Supervisor Excellence Training for Technical Operations

LSA Global

1×1 Coaching Targeted 1×1 coaching sessions relevant to the Supervisor’s learning goals and gaps identified with a central objective of raising awareness AND closing those gaps. Leadership Competency Integration Integration with company-specific leadership competencies required for success as a people leader.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. In past years leadership development has always been treated as a discretionary expense or even a luxury, and therefore something that could be pared down or eliminated in hard economic times. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

Most leaders assume that they need to foster teamwork among the people whom directly and indirectly report to them. Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. Caspar Benson/Getty Images.

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Getting the Deal Done Recap

Martinka Consulting

Tutta Bella has their 10 Point Pizza Guidelines and if any pizza doesn’t meet all 10 guidelines it isn’t served and is donated to food banks. This year it wasn’t a case study to analyze but rather sticky situations in buy-sell deals (and with operating companies). Joe’s topic was, “Value Based Leadership.”

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Top 10 Reasons your Sales Reps Struggle with Social Selling

LSA Global

LinkedIn’s recent State of Sales report found that 62% of B2B decision makers look for an informative LinkedIn profile when considering talking with a sales rep. The digital selling process requires a mindset shift to use online channels to provide value, develop trust , and build relationships with target buyers.

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