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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business

The most common ways of doing this are to send executives to build personal relationships with international business partners and to hire local distribution partners — or independent, third-party intermediaries — to represent their products or services overseas.

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

Harvard Business

Here are four ways to ensure your networking meeting is productive and meaningful, even if the agenda is amorphous. The best networking takes a long-term approach ; you can be yourself and get to know others authentically because you’re not fixated on making an immediate “sale.”

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

Harvard Business

Sales isn’t what you do. But those same managers have come to recognize that the ROI for enabling this development is enormous. It meant giving up between one-quarter and one-third of the CTO’s productivity, but this time was being used as an investment in my future talent. I see this analogy in sports all the time.

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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? As a result, the brand substantially increased conversion of searches to sales of its cold medication, building greater brand loyalty at the same time. ” Speed.

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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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