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9 HR Steps to Create an Impactful Employee Development Plan

AIHR

Employees that participate in training and development can double profitability for the business, increase sales and lead to happier customers. Unsurprisingly, finding time to motivate their team to take upskilling opportunities is challenging, especially if their core focus is hitting ROI-related goals like productivity or sales.

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5 Questions to Stress Test Your Unique Value Proposition

LSA Global

For example, one of our Biotech clients focuses exclusively on ultra-rare diseases, one of our high tech clients concentrates solely on the Fortune 500 on the West Coast, and one of our services clients centers their organization entirely around companies that are a “hot mess.”

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Run B2B Sales on Data, Not Hunches

Harvard Business Review

They view the process of collecting direct and more frequent feedback from these stakeholders as the first step in supporting sales representatives, account managers, operations teams and service agents in solving customers’ problems and earning more of their business. How is this different from relying on anecdote and myth?

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A Partnership Is Not a Purchase Order

Harvard Business Review

The Sun-Netscape Alliance was formed when AOL acquired Netscape in 1998 but then sought to spin out the software operations of Netscape. At the end of the three years, all operations reverted to Sun and the "collaboration" ended, leaving but a trace of itself in Sun's product line.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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Who's Moving Their Company Beyond Bureaucracy?

Harvard Business Review

They call it a "WeOrg" — and their story offers up a playbook for any organization looking to inject more freedom and self-regulation into its operations. That's the question Todd Pierce asked himself after years of experimenting with the full menu of leadership development models in his capacity as CIO of biotech giant Genentech.

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What Angel Investors Value Most When Choosing What to Fund

Harvard Business Review

In a recent working paper , “Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment,” they report their findings: the average investor responds strongly to the founding team, but not so much to the startup’s traction (its sales or user base) or existing investors. Nearly 20 years ago, William A. (The

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