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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

Acquire great talent. Good employees are hard to find and often are not in the job market. Great employees with industry knowledge and experience are in the job market even less. It’s very much like sports, the more the team wins, the greater the number of fans it has. The cake – 16 solid reasons (in alphabetical order).

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How to Build a Better Sales Playbook

LSA Global

Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Talent. What Is a Sales Playbook? Sales Culture.

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10 Years of Data on Baseball Teams Shows When Pay Transparency Backfires

Harvard Business

In one PayScale survey of 71,000 people, for example, 64% of those paid the average market rate thought they were paid less than average. At the same time, 35% who were paid above market rates also thought they were paid less than average. Evidence suggests you probably aren’t very accurate.

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People Favor Naturals Over Strivers — Even Though They Say Otherwise

Harvard Business

Although people stated that training was more important than talent, their ratings showed that they preferred the natural over the striver. The only difference was whether participants were led to believe that the entrepreneur’s background consisted of innate talent or hard work.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Metrics emphasized speed. We asked the management team if we could eliminate the narrow metrics and bonuses, which rewarded only tactical performance, and focus more on the adaptive. Previously, working in the call center was a solo sport.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work. And since people ultimately make all the difference, your operating model should define how you manage the assignments and career paths for your difference-making talent.

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7 Top Ways to Grow Revenue

LSA Global

In fact, a study in the International Journal of Sport Physiology and Performance asked 93 U.S. Some sales strategies call for maximizing gross margin, others seek to capture new market share, while others may focus on growing and protecting current accounts. elite marathoners who qualified for the U.S.

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