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The Importance of US Market Localization for Foreign Companies

Business Consulting Agency

Localization goes beyond translation; it means adapting products, branding, and marketing strategies to align with the unique preferences, cultural norms, and legal requirements of American consumers. Localized marketing should also consider American holidays, trends, and cultural events.

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How to Be an Effective Player-Coach at Work

LSA Global

The origin of the term player-coach refers to a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Although the practice is mostly extinct in sports, many companies today expect their managers – especially their first-level managers – to be an effective player-coach at work. Culture – Get Aligned.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( Any of these individual metrics: number of lines of code, number of tests, hours spent in coding, testing, or reviewing.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( Any of these individual metrics: number of lines of code, number of tests, hours spent in coding, testing, or reviewing.

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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 Culture. What Is a Sales Playbook? Sales Talent.

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Lessons From Events

Martinka Consulting

Others on the panel were Julie Eisenhauer with Clark Nuber CPA, Jesse Ficks with Skis Painting, and Casey Schindler and Jake Licht with Baden Sports. This includes culture, life balance, passing the business on to the next generation, the quality of work, and keeping valued employees. The use of metrics, management reports, etc.

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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

While I can’t comment on the culture in all companies, I do know that many small family-owned businesses have owners who are coasting. It’s very much like sports, the more the team wins, the greater the number of fans it has. How you handle the cultural integration makes a huge difference. The icing – the top three.