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Just Sell’s Sales Talk

October 30th, 2003 | Comments Off | Posted in Sales

“Justsell.com is your sales and marketing portal. It provides its subscribers and users with free just published sales leads, articles, templates, checklists, guides and discussion forums… Each month, the site hones in on a particular piece of the sales process or the sales career and publishes articles and tools by some of the best sales and marketing minds in the country.”

Three signs of a dysfunctional company

October 30th, 2003 | Comments Off | Posted in Leadership

“Like a car with an engine that can’t fire on all cylinders, a business that’s dysfunctional may move forward for a while. But eventually it stops running.”

Can Large Companies Be Entrepreneurial?

October 30th, 2003 | Comments Off | Posted in Entrepreneurship

“When it comes to entrepreneurship and innovation, does size matter? Traditionally, the thinking goes, small, nimble firms have an advantage over large, established organizations because they can get things done faster, with less red tape. Especially in industries where time-to-market is critical, size can be the difference between cutting-edge and also-ran. Some companies, however, are bucking the trend.”

Take Back Your Time Day

October 24th, 2003 | Comments Off | Posted in Life

“Take Back Your Time Day is a nationwide initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment.”

Getting a Handle on Employee Motivation

October 24th, 2003 | Comments Off | Posted in Leadership, Office culture

“Figuring out how to motivate your staff and adapt your style for their particular ‘career anchors’ can turn all employees into higher performers.”

The Board That Conquered Everest

October 24th, 2003 | Comments Off | Posted in Leadership

“Everybody’s heard the story of how Mount Everest was won. Fifty years ago, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay confronted the mountain, braved its dangers, and made it to the top through sheer talent and will. It’s an inspiring tale — yet it obscures a deeper one. The hidden story is less classically heroic — it involves an unassuming manager and, believe it or not, a board of directors — but it reveals heaps more about the nature of great achievements.”

Blog for Business: Is It Right for Your Company?

October 20th, 2003 | Comments Off | Posted in The Web

“If you haven’t yet looked at blogging as a potential marketing tool for your business, now’s the time. Last spring, I wrote to all my customers to suggest that it was time for them to start letting at least their salespeople write blogs for their customers and prospects. It sounds radical to many managers, but there’s no denying the power of authentic communication when it comes to building loyalty between people — and clearly your customers are people first. “

My Idea of Fun

October 20th, 2003 | Comments Off | Posted in Life

“What do you do in your downtime that you’re passionate about? Executives from Brian Grazer at Imagine Entertainment to David Pottruck at Charles Schwab share their favorite pastimes.”

EffectiveMeetings.com

October 20th, 2003 | Comments Off | Posted in Meetings

“Whether you’re a newcomer to meetings or a seasoned pro, the EffectiveMeetings.com resource center offers hands-on meeting advice for every possible situation. Plus, our sage advisor, the Meeting Guru, will help solve your meeting dilemmas.”

Get naked

October 20th, 2003 | Comments Off | Posted in Business

“…Mr Tapscott is deeply serious. A Canadian business school professor, he coined, or at least popularised, such phrases as the ‘net generation’ and the ‘digital divide’ during the 1990s. Today he believes that corporate nakedness — guru-speak for making firms far more transparent to their customers, employees, investors and society at large — is the ‘big idea’ that management thinkers have been desperately seeking since their last ones came a cropper during the dotcom bust.”