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Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: The Top 7

LSA Global

Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: Setting the Stage for Long-Term Success We know from sales leadership simulation assessment data that the pressure on new sales hires to ramp quickly and deliver measurable impact is higher than ever. Do you have a proven plan to help overcome sales call reluctance?

Sales 62
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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. many of us face an endless stream of ethical dilemmas at work. We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. Wells Fargo. Volkswagen.

Ethics 138
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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. Partly to blame was GSK’s compensation policy for its sales representatives, which linked bonuses to individual sales performance. But it is the employee incentives that really matter.

Ethics 72
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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Metrics emphasized speed. We asked the management team if we could eliminate the narrow metrics and bonuses, which rewarded only tactical performance, and focus more on the adaptive. Implement metrics without myopia.

Metrics 135
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Mastering AI: A Strategic Guide for Business Leaders in the Digital Age

Chad Barr

For business leaders, this requires a balanced approach: leverage AI insights, but apply human oversight to ensure content, strategies, and decisions are fair, inclusive, and ethical. This allows you to personalize marketing, sales, and service interactions at scale. Let’s create a future-proof strategy together.

Tools 52
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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. Our publicly available metrics including CEO approval ratings from staff, ratio of women on boards, and number of accounting infractions and scandals. This year we added a carbon metric.

Company 70
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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. Covey, demonstrates that the lack of integrity and ethics causes problems for managers and companies all day long. This list goes on, but you get the picture.

Study 88