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When You Agree to a Networking Meeting But Don’t Know What You’re Going to Talk About

Harvard Business

For instance, if they love sports, perhaps you can invite them to join you for a game in the future; if they want to meet more people in the consulting industry, you could loop back next month with an offer to join you and a friend who’s a consultant for lunch.

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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. What metrics will be used to determine how well your unit is doing at embracing learning and development, and how will that in turn affect your review? But those same managers have come to recognize that the ROI for enabling this development is enormous. Here’s how. Hire to train.

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Is Your Marketing in the Right Place but at the Wrong Time? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE

Harvard Business

How exactly are they doing that, and thereby realizing further gains in ROI? A global sporting goods manufacturer used to mix brand-oriented, aspirational messages and price-focused promotional messages during the same time frame, in part because its e-commerce and brand teams did not coordinate with each other.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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