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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. Consider GM as a case study. A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics.

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Selling as a Competitive Advantage in a Crowd

LSA Global

The even better news is that how you sell (your sales experience) is the one thing your company can still design, improve, measure, and control in a way that is difficult to replicate or replace. This creates a wonderful opportunity for sales driven companies to use selling as a formidable competitive advantage for growth and profitability.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. What made their ascent possible? How did (or didn’t) managers play a role?

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. I studied arts and it was my initial formal training. Ron, you’ve written several books on leadership.

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How to Ask for a Promotion

Harvard Business

And how exactly do you make your case? “Asking for a promotion makes you feel vulnerable,” says Sabina Nawaz , the global CEO coach , leadership keynote speaker, and writer. “This not only showcases your leadership capabilities; it will also relieve your boss to know that there is someone who can fill your shoes.”

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4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business

Companies have hired writers and Chief Content Officers to run departments, create blogs and other materials, and, in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold calling. Documents uploaded to DocSend’s platform include case studies, overviews and guides, e-books, and proposals.

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Why CRM Projects Fail and How to Make Them More Successful

Harvard Business

Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. And the sales team — well, they mostly hated it.

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