Wed.Jan 29, 2025

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Research: Humble Leaders Inspire Others to Step Up

Harvard Business

A new study found that this quality can ignite leadership ambitions throughout a company.

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Final GDPNow Forecast for Q4 Drops 0.9 Percentage Points on Trade Data

MishTalk

The Atlanta Fed GDP model forecast fell from 3.2 percentage points to 2.3 percentage points.

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How Deconstructing Jobs Can Change Your Organization

Harvard Business

Matching employees’ skills with specific projects, rather than confining them to fixed roles, can help unleash people’s talents. But companies need to deal with three tensions to make it work.

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The Art of Discovery: How Your Clients’ Prompts Reveal Hidden Needs

Chad Barr

AI has transformed how businesses strategize, market, and deliver value. But for those leading the charge—coaches, consultants, corporate advisors, thought leaders, and influencers—the real game-changer lies in mastering the art of prompts. Prompts that ask the right questions can lead to powerful insights, strategic breakthroughs, and game-changing solutions.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Research: Trying to Pick the “Best of the Best” Is the Wrong Approach

Harvard Business

In selecting the most creative people or ideas to hire or implement, many organizations use multi-step processes that winnow the initial pool to a group of finalists and then select the best of the best from the finalists. Research conducted in which the authors were involved found that such an approach may be a waste of time and resources and that the experts trying to pick the winners from the finalists agonize and cant really determine the clearly superior choices.

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A Restaurant Innovator’s Recipe for Strategic Growth

Harvard Business

Find a distinct niche and scale.

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Robertson Cooper Unveils New Brand and Website

Robertson Cooper

The post Robertson Cooper Unveils New Brand and Website appeared first on Robertson Cooper.

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How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure

Harvard Business

A conversation with Harvard Medical School’s Carol Kauffman on navigating high-stakes challenges effectively.

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Organizing for urgent

Seth Godin Blog

There are many ways to prioritize our time and focus, but the easiest and most vivid way is to do the urgent things first. If we wait until a house plant is sick before we take care of it, though, it’s too late. Deadlines, loud requests and last-minute interventions are crude forcing functions. They’re inefficient and common. It’s far more effective to organize for important instead.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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You Are Not in the Consulting Business, You’re in the Marketing Business

Alan Weiss

Every professional services firm or practice is in the marketing business. If you can’t market the benefits of your services, but instead focus merely on your methodology and/or technology, you may survive but you”ll never thrive. And if you can’t take rejection and learn from it, you’ll never be any good at marketing. Three strikes and you’re out: Poor marketing skills and/or willingness to market Defensiveness, where you do not accept feedback from respected sourc

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Customized Sales Training for Industrial Technologies Team

LSA Global

Redwood Shores, CA LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a Customized Sales Training program focused on consultative solution selling to meet aggressive growth targets by adopting new mindsets and developing new sales skills. 100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 104% Knowledge Gain 93.3% Net Promoter

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Imports Surge 3.9 Percent Exports Plunge 4.5 Percent, New Trade Deficit Record

MishTalk

Today’s trade report will have Trump howling.

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The Green New Deal Is Dead, Even in Europe. Thank Trump

MishTalk

Trump pulls the US out of the Paris Accord. And the long-suffering Green New Deal is on the deathbed in Europe.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Trump Bashes the Fed Again, Cites DEI and Fake Climate Change

MishTalk

Trump is not happy with the Fed’s decision to hold rates steady today.

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Trump Announces New Tariffs on Computer Chips and Semiconductors

MishTalk

Trump goes after Taiwan in a spat over semiconductors.

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Trump Signs Executive Order to Detain Illegal Migrants in Cuba

MishTalk

Trump’s executive order instructs the Departments of Defense to prepare a 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.

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