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Bad Boss or Good Boss: Who Do Your Work For?

Rick Conlow

They are an epidemic killing off employee productivity, loyalty, creativity and company profit. The worst bosses contribute to poor morale and bad attitudes, which lead to poor productivity, indifferent customer service, lower sales, reduced quality, and poorer overall financial results. Operates with position power.

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Less Marketing, More Consulting — How To Win Projects Within Your Network with Stuart Friedman: Podcast #19

Consulting Success

This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. He shares a number of ways that he has made this work for him, including aggressively building product.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

I’ll let you in on the six-step technique I have developed over many years, working with clients and in teaching my public seminars on strategic planning. It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles. But methods can be learned. You may think that this will be easy.

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Happy customers are closer than they appear

1 to 1

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, automotive sales tumbled in 2020 before surging demand and a global chip shortage sent prices skyrocketing in 2021. And we do that across all departments, whether that’s marketing or technicians or sales. It’s a core tenant of who we are, just like, did we hit our sales objectives?

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. sales force teams.

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History of Organization Development (Part 1 of 6) ? ?Prehistoric OD.

Consulting and Organizational Management

What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? They have drawn heavily from Weisbord’s wonderfully rich, easy-to-read, and well-documented description of the origins of the field in Productive Workplaces (1987 and revised in 2012). This is the first blog post in a six-part series about the history of OD.).