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What to Say Once You Get a Meeting

The Fearless Marketer

I’ve been writing a lot about the importance of setting up meetings with prospective clients and those who can lead you to prospective clients. How to Get 100 Meetings. More Meetings = More Clients. But what do you actually say in such a meeting that will move things forward and lead to more valuable connections?

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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 3)

Markovitz Consulting

Shutting down a warehouse for two days to do physical inventory, for example, is incredibly disruptive, with ripple effects throughout the business, from supplier to customer. For example, many distribution centers use cycle counting to manage their inventory, avoiding the need to shut down the facility.

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What Will It Take to Make Finance More Gender-Balanced?

Harvard Business

It is no wonder we came to fear our gender would keep us from achieving the same level of success as our male peers in finance. We turned to those most able to effect change in finance: the professionals actively working in the field. Family-friendly policies alone may not be enough to drive change in gender equality in finance.

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The Transformative Power of AI in Business

Tom Spencer

For example, businesses like Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, and Airbnb use AI-powered recommendation systems to suggest movies, videos, products, and rental properties based on a user’s browsing history, past purchases, and revealed preferences based on past behavior. These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy.

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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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Enter the Carpetbaggers: Ukraine's New Finance Minister a US Citizen, New Economy Minister from Lithuania

MishTalk

Ukraine''s just-named "Finance Minister" is a US citizen, and Ukraine''s new "Economy Minister" is from Lithuania. Meet Your New Carpetbagger Technocrats Natalie Jaresko , a U.S. citizen and chief executive of private equity group Horizon Capital, will take over as "Finance Minister". Greece is a perfect example.

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HR Guide to Company Culture: 5 Tangible Leverage Points

LSA Global

An HR Guide to Company Culture and Your Organizational DNA When it comes to people and organizational dynamics, the concept of company culture can seem nebulous and less vital when compared company strategies, systems, people, or finances. Do you utilize workplace meetings to reinforce the culture you want to see?

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