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Ask for the Cash: Convince Your Customers to Pay You in Advance

Growth Institute

The pay-in-advance model is one of the five customer-funded models successful companies commonly use to scale up without needing to rely on investors. By getting his customers to pay in advance, Dell completely changed his company’s cash flow, and spurred its ability to scale rapidly. Fast-forward to 2013, and Threadless was serving 2.5

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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Michael McKinney

In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. He has over 25 years of experience as a management consultant in the financial services industry, advising clients on technology, process, risk, and large-scale business and digital transformations. Nokia just couldn’t keep up.

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Beyond HR KPIs: Strategic Metrics for Organizational Development

AIHR

In this environment, the main driver for developing their capabilities probably is the workforce ( Gamerschlag & Moeller, 2011 ; Gamerschlag, 2013 ). In fact, different recommendations and directions have been developed from the institutional arena ( Directive 2013/34/EU ; Directive 2014/95/EU ). Teams) High-Performance System.

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Compliance vs. Commitment (On Behavior Change)

Ed Batista

5] Herzberg's research suggests that job satisfaction and dissatisfaction aren't endpoints on a single spectrum, but two distinct scales. 4] There's also a relationship with the distinction that psychologist Frederick Herzberg made between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on the job. [5]

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Company Rigor: The Discipline Of Growth

Chief Executive

While effective in early-stage growth, initial underinvestment in other parts of the company pose risks as the company scales. The Salesforce management process (known as V2MOM ) was implemented early in the company’s lifecycle and is still used today in the vastly scaled enterprise to guide roles, goals, and projects for every employee.

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The Balcony and the Dance Floor

Ed Batista

We all tend toward a given point on the social intuition scale on the basis of our inborn capabilities and formative experiences, but if you find yourself insufficiently attuned to others' thoughts and feelings you can increase your sensitivity. Full Catastrophe Living (Jon Kabat-Zinn, 2013). [10] Mindfulness for Busy People). [9]

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Very Cheap, Then Very Expensive (On Job Titles)

Ed Batista

A theme in my work with founder/CEOs is what I call "the judicious imposition of structure," which includes the need to clarify who's responsible for what and how decisions get made as the organization scales. [5] When enough people--or the right people--believe a story, it suddenly becomes true. [7] They become constraints in themselves.