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What French Bakeries Get Right About Strategy

Harvard Business

One would think that if you run a traditional consumer business that can’t compete on costs with more efficient competitors, you would want to avoid them like the plague.

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Shifting Your Focus from Short-Term Efficiency to Long-Term Resilience

Harvard Business

There are downsides to pursuing efficiency at all costs.

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Strategy of War – Business Lessons from the Battlefield

Tom Spencer

Military strategy has long been a source of wisdom for the field of business, inspiring countless comparisons. This article will consider three examples from military history that can examined to better understand competitive strategy in the business arena. He led small but trained armies against larger enemies on many fronts.

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The Value of Continuous Learning: Strategies for Lifelong Skill Development

Clarity Consultants

Explore the importance of continuous learning in the corporate world and uncover strategies for companies to encourage skill development among their workforce. Explore gamification techniques, virtual reality (VR) training, or microlearning modules to make learning more engaging, accessible, and efficient. Contact us today.

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Best Practices for Accelerating the Sales Process

Think about it: with outbound prospecting, requests from management, scheduled demos, and inbound calls, chaos can quickly work its way into your strategy, deeming a “speed wins” selling mentality downright ineffective. This eBook takes a look at three headache-free strategies you can employ today to accelerate selling the right way.

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3 Strategies to Boost Sales and Marketing Productivity

Harvard Business

As companies seek to cut costs in an uncertain economy, increasing this commercial productivity is a smart strategy. Research shows the three ways companies can do this are to refine the go-to-market model, turn every rep into an A player, and make sales and marketing support more efficient.

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What does a good strategy execution require

Asamby Consulting

What does a good strategy execution require If you have the right strategy and execute it well, your business will thrive. But given your strategy is smart, what's required to execute well on your strategy? This article outlines a simple framework to execute your strategy. It's that simple.

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A Proven Guide to Recruiting Passive Candidates

At some point in your role as a recruiter - perhaps more frequently than not - you'll need to fill a position quickly and you'll look for active recruitment strategies to do it. However, it's not efficient or cost-effective to be in the active recruitment mode all the time.