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Back to the Basics in Leadership and Life with former EVP of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort Lee Cockerell

Consulting Matters

Want a common sense, down-to-earth approach for developing leaders, growing organizations, and creating a profitable consulting or coaching business? One of Lee's major and lasting legacies was the creation of Disney Great Leader Strategies which was used to train and develop the 7000 leaders at Walt Disney World.

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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

Others have developed theories to explain why businesses fail and what criteria distinguishes successful founders from unsuccessful ones. While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail.

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Salespeople Need a Strategy for Selling to CEOs

Harvard Business

“Sell higher and call on the C-Suite” is probably the most common refrain in business development, and you can see why. As Tom Magnuson, a CEO of a top-10 global hotel chain, told us: “I get hit on a lot by vendors and hardly ever buy.” The onus is on you, not the buyer, to suggest constructive next steps.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character.

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???After the World Cup: MLS Brand Can Expand!

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

Research: Remember this: Market research is a proactive activity built on developing a hypothesis of the market or asking a question that you are looking to answer. Second, build a strategy by understanding what you will and won’t do. Brand Strategy is three questions: a) Who are we targeting? Developing a voice.

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Another Ghost Town in China, This Time a Replica of Manhattan

MishTalk

China’s project to build a replica Manhattan is taking shape against a backdrop of vacant office towers and unfinished hotels, underscoring the risks to a slowing economy from the nation’s unprecedented investment boom. Sales of bonds by local-government vehicles to repay bank loans are just “buying time,” he said.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Currently located on 430 Park Avenue, the latest buzz on the street is the new office being built for BCG New York – they are moving from midtown Manhattan to the colossal state-of-the-art Hudson Yards development. Before the acquisition of Parthenon, consulting at EY was really synonymous to Advisory (not strategy).