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VOMP Your Way Out of a Conflict

Makarios Consulting

Knowing how to resolve them is critical to not only peace within your business, but to the ongoing productivity of your business. Mary Ann acknowledges the need for sales to align better with operations and concedes that some commitments might have been made in haste. VOMP stands for Ventilation, Ownership, Moccasins, and Plan.

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In the Best Sales Teams, About Half of the People Are in Support Roles

Harvard Business

Sales reps are most effective when they have the right amount of support staff, but exactly how much support staff does a company need, and how should it be structured? Call it a Goldilocks quandary: Too little support, and your sales people can’t do their jobs well; too much, and you’re wasting money.

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Intro to Consulting Case Frameworks

Management Consulted

The frameworks help you quickly identify hot topics that will assist you in solving a case – real or in an interview – in an extremely short – and efficient – amount of time. The interviewer wants you to assess the existing market of a product in units or sales. Overview of consulting case frameworks.

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China Announces SOE Shakeup: Too Little Too Late to Matter

MishTalk

The SOEs also created jobs, but did so at huge expense: By taking productive land from farmers, by massive pollution, vacant cities and malls, forced migration, and an untenable reliance on fixed investment growth. We now see the effects in steel and cement production, crashing commodity prices, capital flight, and a plunging stock market.

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Social Media Is Too Important to Be Left to the Marketing Department

Harvard Business

But marketing managers simply are not trained to deal with questions or complaints about service, product performance, or other nonmarketing requests. Distributing social responsibilities to relevant people across the organization can be efficient, be effective, and help make one-on-one customer engagement scalable.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train | Consulting.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Here are some guidelines for what roles to use and when. b) Guidelines for conducting general practices, for example, planning, evaluation, organizational change, addressing ethical dilemmas, use of capacity building approaches or developing learning plans. When You Might Resort to Facilitating. Read more.]. Read more.].