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CEO Papers
LEADERSHIP` for Your Success
Author: Colin Thompson, CEO, UK, iCEO #49200
These basic competencies are considered vital for effective leadership: Develop a vision. With a competent, motivated staff, the leader is free to develop a working vision of the organisation's future. Know yourself. Your actions must align harmoniously with specific values, behaviour and principles. Connect with others. Understand what makes your employees perform at their best and give them what they need to help the business succeed. https://www.ceo-worldwide.com/blog/leadership-for-your-success/ Read more...
HR Papers
How can a French HR Director help a foreign group to set up in business in France and to buy a company there?
Author: Philippe Chauvet, VPHR, France, iCEO #16147
The cultural background and the specificity of French legislation are difficult to grasp for a foreign company trying to set up in France. If financial, commercial and technical analysis are quite universal, the social part requires a deep knowledge of all french players and a HR director experienced in negociating with all parties. Read more...
Sales & Marketing Papers
Don’t write short texts. Write concise ones
Author: Philip Yaffe, VPSM, Belgium, iCEO #32896
If you are puzzled by this admonition, it is probably because you have been led to believe that "short" and "concise" are synonyms. They aren’t.My dictionary shows two definitions for "concise":
1. Brief and to the point
2. Short and clear
If "short" is already part of the definition of concise, they cannot be synonyms. There must be a difference. So what is it, and how does it affect your writing?
People pay attention to texts that catch and hold their interest. Once that inte Read more...
White Papers
The Fog of Forecasting for Top Executive Recruiters
Author: Bob Apollo, CEO, UK, iCEO #13965
According to CSO Insights recent survey of more than 1500 sales leaders from around the world, less than half of all forecasted deals result in a sale. It’s no wonder that over 70% of the organisations surveyed admitted that their ability to close deals in the timeframe originally forecasted “needed improvement”. The challenge in recently funded start-ups is even worse - in fact one frustrated VC was recently heard to observe that a monkey throwing darts could probably forecast more accurately than many of their portfolio companies’ sales teams! Read more...
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