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How Marketers Can Connect Profit and Purpose

Harvard Business

For the last six years, we have worked with a group of top marketing executives and business leaders in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area from companies large and small. Porter and Kramer emphasized the external market opportunity of creating social impact. Each year we assess the issues that are most top-of-mind.

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4 Lessons Learned Outside the Classroom during an MBA

Tom Spencer

Through teamwork you learn how to assert your position and also how compromise in all areas where a decision needs to be made: separating roles and responsibilities, selecting fonts and graphics to use in a presentation, creating a meeting agenda, deciding on a meeting place and time, you get the idea. Time management.

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Leading with Less: Navigating Staffing Shortages and High Turnover in the Modern Workplace

Peter Stark

One contributing factor is the hot employee market causing people to change jobs at record highs. These managers have realized that if they fight the new environment…they will lose. Instead of fighting the change, successful managers are excited, not frustrated, about adapting to the challenges the new environment presents.

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 Consultant or Vendor? Pick only one!

Women in Consulting

It might be a course in time management or project management or a one-day team building retreat. Maybe it is a “package” of marketing materials for a new product launch. Or it might be a 3-session package on presentation skills. Vendors typically offer thoroughly designed and tested products.

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Managing your Energy, Time, and Tasks to have a Complete Day

Tom Spencer

You might be responsible for taking notes, or simply required to be present, so your level of attention can shift accordingly, allowing you to multitask. On every project, you will also have client specific learning which will require you to learn about the client’s business, market, product/service, customers, etc.

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Project Management: Dealing with Scarcity

PM Alliance

And if these professionals are still building their expertise, their rates might present a more affordable option. Project schedules are often aggressive, and teams may find themselves asked to achieve results in an unrealistically short period of time. These factors often leave your team little time to react and adjust.

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Transforming from a Good to Great Coach

Rick Conlow

It requires guidance, support, and accountability, fostering growth, development, and time-management. Managers only learn to become master coaches through on-going training, hard work, diligence, and persistence. While they knew their market, they did have the coaching know how or culture. Anybody can coach poorly.