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How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home

Harvard Business

As much as you’d like to leave your manager’s office having made the sale, it’s important “not to push for a yes or no right away,” Dillon says. Two years ago, when Mark Scott took the job as chief marketing officer at Apixio, a digitized medical records company, he knew that his commute would be bad.

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What to Do When Your Boss Says No

Harvard Business

” He told me he regularly said no — to more staff, to bigger marketing budgets, to additional equipment. Without a larger marketing budget, sales will drop. I asked the CEO, whom I’ll call Mike, about the secret of his company’s rapid growth. His answer blew me away. “Say no!”

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How to Ask for a Promotion

Harvard Business

If nothing more, an outside job offer builds your confidence and gives you more information about your market worth. For example, she described how she revised the company’s internal handbook by using skills she honed as a consultant and crowd-sourcing HR ideas from the team she already managed.

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Surveying the Business Landscape

Tom Spencer

In the pursuit of growth, should a company enter a new market, develop a new product, launch a start-up, form a joint venture, or acquire a competitor? These three strategic decisions helped to shift market power in the PC industry away from IBM and towards Microsoft and Intel. The story of the IBM PC is a cautionary tale.

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Below them is a team of five global managing directors, each owning a different sector: mature markets, fast-growing markets, productized services, people-delivered services, and expertise & knowledge management. Enterprise sales effectiveness. Practice Areas. 1. Leadership and talent. Capability assessment. Industries .

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History of Organization Development (Part 1 of 6) ? ?Prehistoric OD.

Consulting and Organizational Management

All the imaginary stuff about Karg and the Court Jesters wasn’t what we (and the editors) needed for a more serious handbook for OD Practitioners. Marketing and Social Media. Hello, Julie, This first blog was from my first rough draft that contains a lot of material that did not make it into the final chapter. Crisis Management.

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Thirty years of projects

Seth Godin Blog

Now, it''s so much easier to go straight to market that we need to find our own internal compass, something to replace the external one we all used to depend upon. Using the 80/20 rule as a guide, I realized that the top 30 titles probably accounted for more than 95% of their sales. We sold more than a million of them.