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Bad Boss or Good Boss: Who Do Your Work For?

Rick Conlow

The worst bosses contribute to poor morale and bad attitudes, which lead to poor productivity, indifferent customer service, lower sales, reduced quality, and poorer overall financial results. Operates with position power. So, keep learning: read leadership books, attend seminars and webinars, and get a personal coach.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? ” The latter is a list of actions interspersed with a sprinkling of desired results, all utterly useless in terms of strategy.

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Happy customers are closer than they appear

1 to 1

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, automotive sales tumbled in 2020 before surging demand and a global chip shortage sent prices skyrocketing in 2021. And we do that across all departments, whether that’s marketing or technicians or sales. It’s a core tenant of who we are, just like, did we hit our sales objectives?

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. sales force teams.

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

Consulting and Organizational Management

What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? There is no reason to believe that a cave woman would have had to be “brave” to speak her mind in the scenario where the men are considering their hunting strategy. This is the first blog post in a six-part series about the history of OD.). Look her up!