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4 Powerful Lessons We Can Learn from Famous Amos Founder Wally Amos

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What I’m doing really,” he told The New York Times , “is combining everything I’ve ever learned in life—my business college training, my show business background, my promotion experience—and applying it to selling these cookies.” Amos exemplifies how to think outside the box … err, cookie jar. “I

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Anyone Can Learn Sales—Here’s Where to Start

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You’ll be amazed at how much you can learn just by observation. What matters is that selling skills are there to be learned. While it’s true that you must not be afraid to talk with people, it’s even more important that you learn to listen. Learning to Sell. Learning to sell isn’t difficult.

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Saving Starbucks: What We Can Learn From Brian Niccol’s Vision to Refocus the Coffee Giant

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Indeed, Starbucks had tapped into something rather extraordinary that its consistent and visible brand message could, in effect, leverage far more than first imagined—an awakening that couldn’t have come at a better time as drink prices soared globally during the 2008 financial crisis.

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4 Truths of Pivoting Your Business During Hard Times from the Founder of eXp Realty

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But for anyone who was around in 2008, life was really, really good—until it wasn’t. In 2008, I was running one of the top teams in the country. We learned that relying on brick-and-mortar offices put us at risk. Would we have turned to a cloud-based model if 2008 turned out differently? Truth: Good is the enemy of great.

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A Look at How Brad D. Smith Motivated and Inspired Intuit Employees

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I’ve done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation ,” said Smith, who was named CEO in 2008. “I Smith’s successes “When I transitioned into the CEO role, one of my primary goals was to learn what our stakeholders were thinking about,” he said. “I The ability to learn, adapt and execute is critical.”

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Here’s Why Your 2024 Corporate Workplace Strategy Needs Coworking

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Coworking started as a grassroots movement and has evolved into a legitimate industry, especially after the 2008 recession disrupted traditional office leases. In the window from 2008-2010, buildings across the U.S. Indeed, what started out as a scrappy, not-for-profit social movement has evolved into an industry in its own right.

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Peter Shankman, the original creator of “Help a Reporter Out” is on a mission to restore truth in media

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Here’s what he’s learned along the way. He moved the queries to a Facebook group, and later to a website called Help A Reporter Out (HARO), in 2008. “I He dismissed them until he learned that HARO was moving to a model in which users would have to sign in multiple times per day to access connections. “I

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