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Transformation During Crisis | Simon Leslie

Peter Winick

Simon is also the author of several books, including, There is No F in Sales: A Book About Selling in Every Market Condition and Equanimity: The Diary of a CEO in Crisis. We start our conversation by talking about Simon’s first book, There is No F in Sales, which shines a light on his years of sales experience.

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Will SMBs Thrive or Fail in this Inflation-Threatened Holiday Season? Here’s What Reports Show

Zenefits

If you have reservations about how well promotions and sales will do during this holiday’s inflation-threatened season, you have every reason to feel uncertain. It’s now at its highest level in about 40 years — an astronomical 8.2% — and people are paying the price through the high cost of food, goods, services, and energy.

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Maximizing the Flow of Ideas for Your Organization. | Jeremy Utley & Perry Klebahn

Peter Winick

In addition, we can help you implement marketing, research, and sales. So as you can imagine, that was tragic in itself and affected sales quite a bit inside of a clothing that just nobody was out shopping for a period of time. You know, sales are way, way down. Contact us for more information. Bill Sherman All right.

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Excess Inventory Wastes Carbon and Energy, Not Just Money

Harvard Business Review

By some estimates, the world is sitting on roughly $8 trillion worth of goods held for sale, and nearly $2 trillion in the U.S. If we could permanently reduce the amount of product sitting idle, we'd save money, energy, and material. With 40 percent average error, half the time sales will actually fall between 600,000 and 1.4

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Obviously, no one wants to miss a short-term forecast or sales goal. What’s a typical independent director’s worst nightmare?

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A New Way to Think About Office Lighting

Harvard Business Review

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. We believe that a recent business-model innovation will overcome this barrier and upend commercial lighting and other energy services. Hence the opportunity for third-party service providers.

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How to Better Manage Your Company’s Utility Bills

Harvard Business Review

In general, managing energy bills has traditionally been a pretty low priority for most corporations. For all but a few process-focused companies or those with energy-intensive facilities such as data centers, the utility bill is generally filed under the list of uncontrollable, take-it-or-leave-it costs of doing business.

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