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Leadership Matters: Values and Dysfunctional Dispositions
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| This essay summarizes our findings regarding the causes of managerial failure, and offers some suggestions about how to minimize the problem. We can sort the causes into two large categories which concern values and dysfunctional dispositions. |
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7.0 The African Entrepreneur Entrepreneurial Competencies: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
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| Empirical studies linking education and training to entrepreneurial success have had mixed and contradictory results. |
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Finance Matters for Poverty Reduction and Attaining the MDGs: Recent Empirical Evidence
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| Finance is an important component of development, including for poor people. Indeed, recent empirical evidence has shown that a more developed financial system can help reduce poverty and lower income inequality. |
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Empirical Skepticism
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| Empirical skepticism is a foundation for great leadership. We must deliberately suspend judgment and be willing to live in doubt for while, in order to allow assumptions to be sorted from facts and to keep irrelevant facts from clouding our judgment. This practice of empirical skepticism ensures that open and challenging questions help our teams anticipate opportunity and assess risk more accurately. |
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Supply Chain Confidence A PI Q and A
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| The following is an interesting question I received from a Master of Science (M.Sc.) Business Technologies student who is working on her thesis “Measuring Confidence in Supply Chain Management System: An empirical approach.”
Reader Question:
My name is Diana Esparza, M.Sc. Electronic Business Technologies full time student at the University of Ottawa. Currently, I am working on my thesis proposal “Measuring Confidence in Supply Chain Management System: An empirical approach”.
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When to Send Literature
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| Sooner or later, a prospect is going to tell you, "Send literature." It’s a natural response to a salesperson. It’s an easy way to reject the salesperson without getting personal.
Before you agree to send literature, ask yourself, "Why is the prospect requesting literature? Is this a sign of no interest?"
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Unintended Consequences of Hybrid Vehicles
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| I heard a "superb" cynical statement today. I have no idea if it is factually correct, have no data (empirical or anecdotal) to support it, but it is such a great potential example of unintended consequences that I thought it was worth putting out there. |
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Objections – Common Responses
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| The Four Most Common Responses
1. “No thanks, I’m happy with what I am doing now”
2. “I’m not interested”
3. “I’m too busy”
4. “Send me some literature” |
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The Ethical Road to Success
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| Do you remember the old Sunday school discussions on being fair and having ethics? Today, ethics may seem to have gone by the way side but most businesses do have a code of ethics written right into their mission statements, as well as into their corporate literature. Public confidence is achieved through codes of ethics when they are shared in company literature such as brochures or sales and promotional materials. |
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What Sales Literature Do I REALLY Need?
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| There is still one piece of sales literature most companies can't do without. While the Web and digital media have made it easier to reduce the amount of printing previously needed to provide product brochures,catalogs, and other sales materials to potential customers, there's still one, virtually indispensable piece of literature you'll want in your sales tool chest to sell your product or service more effectively. |
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Bin Laden & How Information Spreads Now
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| Smart and empirical discussion of how the bin Laden death information spread on The Twitter, first as rumor and then as fact. |
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