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Is it heresy to make salespeople pay their own expenses? An HBR management puzzle (Harvard Business Review)
By Staff WriterThe sales force could develop their awareness and skills at profit and loss management, which could allow the company to peg incentives not only to volume but to profitability of sales in the future.
July 02, 2012
The ‘Why’ of Getting Referrals Is as Important as the ‘How’Focus on client service, and those who refer to youand the clients they referwill be pleased and more likely to refer more quality clients to you.
July 02, 2012
Frugal innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan (Harvard Business Review)Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance and who coined the term frugal engineering," has some best practices for CEOs who must deliver more value to customers at less cost.
July 02, 2012
Diamond Pressured as Barclays’ Agius Steps DownBarclays Chairman Marcus Agius resigned from his post after a LIBOR-rigging scandal resulted in a fine of 290 million pounds. CEO Bob Diamond remained at the helm despite calls for his ouster.
July 01, 2012
A 5-Step Guide to Facebook AdsGet your ad up and running by following these pointers.
June 30, 2012
Why should I do business with you?What services do you provide? Why would people want to do business with you? How are you better than the next guy?
June 30, 2012
What financial advice would you give a young person just starting out?If I had any advice for a young personespecially a womanit would be to stay the heck out of the mall. You dont need all those shoes, trust me.