Henry DeVries

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

If you want to attract high-paying clients, don’t get distracted with Facebook and Instagram. LinkedIn is the hand you should be watching.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Daniel Viñé Garcia/Getty Images. While on an investor tour in Europe, I ended a busy day by joining my boss at a nice restaurant. After he said something funny, I responded in my typical style — throwing back my head and letting out hearty, unabashed laughter. People were taken aback. They turned to stare at me. I asked my red-faced boss whether my laughter had embarrassed him. “It is pretty loud,” he muttered under his breath.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Strategy Design is Only the Beginning. Designing a clear and compelling company strategy is only the first step. To truly meet strategic targets, your plans must be understood, committed to and implemented by your employees. Unfortunately, there is a measurable gap between strategy design and implementation in too many organizations. 90% of top executives surveyed by the Economist Intelligence Unit from 500 multi-national companies with yearly revenues of at least $1 Billion cited poor strateg

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

IAN HOOTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. You walk down the hall, head spinning — unsure of how to stabilize yourself. You went into your one-on-one thinking you had clarity on your current priorities. You just left it wondering how in the world you would squeeze in the five new ideas your boss just dreamed up. You cringe when you have the premonition that an email with the subject line “another thought” might be waiting for you once you reach your desk.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

A Toyota Prius passed me at 100 miles an hour. I didn’t know a Prius could even go that fast. The driver was passing on the right, using the breakdown lane, zigging and zagging across traffic. If a car could careen, he was. The problem with this sort of fast passage is that there’s no room for error. One mistake, one failure, and you’re out.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

John Rizzo/Getty Images. Discounts and promotions are at an all-time high, often comprising the single-biggest cost within many retailers’ P&Ls. Yet despite these high stakes, and the growing adoption of sophisticated analytics, many retailers continue to take a broad-brush approach to running promotions that results in missed sales and profits.

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