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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

Acquire great talent. By being larger you can reduce most or all of the following: Customers Employees Management abilities Product Owner. More customers over your expanded revenue base, more employees, deeper management, less product concentration, and most importantly, there’s more talent to take a load off the owner.

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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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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. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. They will represent the products more consistently. Metrics emphasized speed.

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business

Get top-level guidance and metrics. This new reality, in which developing talent is a key business imperative, requires real buy-in from top brass in your company, all the way up to the CEO. Nearly every manager who has reported to me has questioned the wisdom of spending time building talent when there are immediate business goals.

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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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How to Make a Great First Impression

Harvard Business

If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive. ” It could be a new assignment at work, upcoming travel, or a new product lineup. “Don’t toot your own horn.

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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. But beware; McKinsey reports that 50 percent of new product launches do not meet their targets. elite marathoners who qualified for the U.S. Olympics how they trained hoping to uncover universal themes. Surprisingly, there were not any.

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