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How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success

Harvard Business

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Talent matters. Denver Post/Getty Images.

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How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success

Harvard Business

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Talent matters. Denver Post/Getty Images.

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A Look into Microsoft’s Data-Driven Approach to Improving Sales

Harvard Business

Companies are beginning to utilize their employees’ behavioral data — generally known as people analytics — to better understand and improve their sales operations , with strong results. Microsoft, where we work, is no exception, and B2B sales is one of the areas where we are seeing the most value.

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Outsourcing vs. managed services: Knowing the difference will save you time and money

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Outsourcing business processes and tasks can free up employees to focus on more complex or valuable work; it can extend resources, such as sales support, for targeting new or underserved markets; support new product and service rollouts; and provide expertise within a specific industry focus. What are managed services?

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How the Best Global Employers Convince Workers to Join and Stay

Harvard Business

Companies spend a lot of time and money building strong brands to win over customers—but they often fall short when it comes to strengthening their employer reputation to win talent. If companies can’t attract, engage, and retain the right talent, they’re unlikely to achieve their business objectives.

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In 1954, Hay continued its trailblazing ways, started the “Hay Compensation Survey Comparisons”, a tool that allowed companies to remain competitive in terms of the compensation they offered their staff, and continued to see sustained levels of growth. 1. Leadership and talent. Talent management. Practice Areas.

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Measuring Your Employees’ Invisible Forms of Influence

Harvard Business

The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs. For comparison, the employee sample identified as low performers had an average network size of 20. But are these measurement methods still valid?