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How to Resolve the Roots of Disagreement

Jesse Lyn Stoner

Most disagreements are due to differing interpretations of the facts. For example, John’s glass vase was broken when Carlos dropped it. This is an objective fact – an event that occurred. John is angry because he believes Carlos did it on purpose. John’s interpretation of the event is what creates meaning and emotion. If Carlos […]. The post How to Resolve the Roots of Disagreement appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Revolutionize the Selling Process with Partnership Technology

CoSell

Selling is a constantly evolving field. Partnership technology gives you a clear competitive advantage to know more about your customers and prospects. With all the new advances in technology and software, we can work more efficiently than ever before. We can streamline sales techniques, and transform the selling process in ways our predecessors never could have envisioned.

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How to Securely Share Your Customer Account Data and Close More Deals [Guide]

PartnerTap

Up until recently, account mapping was a necessary risk, but now you securely share your customer account data with a Partner Ecosystem Platform. Partners will never give each other direct access to their CRM accounts. Your customer lists and open opportunities are the lifeblood of your company and must be appropriately secured. Enterprises can never actually drive revenue with partners without some level of joint-account mapping.

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Know Your Initial Reason for Entering into a Partnership

Peter Simoons

Tip 1: Know Your Initial Reason to Partner. When you form a close and personal relationship with someone, either a marriage or a long-term relationship, do you take the time to think of the benefits you will receive when you enter that relationship, or are the words “I love you” reason enough for you? Many long-term relationships and marriages do succeed because the people involved love each other.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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How Your Organization Can Innovate in a People-Centric Way

Hype

When we talk about innovation, we often talk about harnessing people's creative energies, and then turning that energy into something of value. How can we help people collaborate and create new things?

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How the Discomfort of Paradox Can Unlock Creativity

INSEAD Knowledge

The transformative power of holding the tension of opposites and learning to live with contradiction.

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What is Innovation Strategy?

Planview Blog

An innovation strategy is a common innovation mission and a detailed plan that aims to create new value, for which customers are willing to pay. It includes a set of policies or behaviors geared toward achieving future organizational growth. The most innovative businesses understand that big, new ideas don’t just happen. Instead, innovations arise out of environments and procedures that are deliberately designed to facilitate their development.

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Remembrance and red envelopes: Here’s how the diverse Impact community honors Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Chinese New Year

Impact

January is often a time for reflection and committing to change — where would we be if we didn’t turn our minds each year toward making resolutions to have better lives, whether it be fitness, career, relationships, social justice, or beyond? In the United States, January is also when we commemorate the life of Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most important civil rights leaders in American history.

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Island Pacific Announces Partnership with CGS for PIM & PLM

CGS

01/11/2021. Island Pacific signs partnership with CGS to support best-in-class PIM & PLM capabilities . Santa Ana, CA, and New York, NY – January 12, 2021 – Island Pacific, a division of 3Q Holdings Limited and a leading provider of global software solutions and services to the retail industry, announced it has signed a partnership with CGS, a global provider of business applications, enterprise learning and outsourcing services, for its BlueCherry Next™ PIM (Product Information Management)

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How to Build Competitive Channel Programs: Advice from 7 Channel Experts

The tech world is crowded. And that means the stakes for channel management have never been higher. How do you cut through the noise? Are SPIFFs, business plans, and marketing development funds really worth it? Get real-world, boots-on-the-ground insight into what it takes to build a partner relationship management motion that attracts, trains, retains, and motivates the right partners.

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The Digital Transformation of the “Mad Men” Model

INSEAD Knowledge

The ad agency business needs to reinvent itself and embrace the two key challenges of the coming decade.

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The Importance of Pride vs. Modesty for COOs

COO Alliance

When a COO envisions their future and the future of their company as a whole they often downplay their potential success. This is to avoid the chance of coming off as conceited or pompous and to maintain a sense of modesty. You don’t always need to downplay your success, though! Being a good COO is a delicate balance of pride and modesty for sure. You might put together a vision where you see yourself swimming in success.

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How To Improve Strategic Planning

Aepiphanni

2020 has ended and more people are glad it’s finally over. We all know that the flip of the calendar page from December to January is not going to change anything immediately. For most people, it is a psychological release of whatever challenges happened the previous year and an opportunity to step into the chance of a much better year. In the business world, January either triggers the start of a.

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Four Channel Predictions For 2021

Channel Incentive Best Practices

As 2019 came to an end, most predictions of how the year would unfold for channel players focused on continuing automation and continued consolidation within and among channel players. There would be continued migration to the cloud, and channel companies would combine to achieve greater economies of scale. Channel vendors, distributors and resellers that had made prescient investments in infrastructure, software and services, were poised to do well in 2020.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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What’s Your Problem? with Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg

Thinkers 50

On January 7, Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg discussed how you can solve the right problems by mastering the art of reframing during the “What’s Your Problem?” webinar in the Big Idea Webinar series from Thinkers50 and Zevio. . Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is a Harvard Business Press author and a globally recognized expert on innovation and problem solving.

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8 Global Shifts for 2021 Reshaping Industries, Governments and Society

Frost & Sullivan

As industries shift to the “new normal ” , Frost & Sullivan experts share how companies can capitalize on opportunities and drive growth. Santa Clara, Calif. – January 14, 2021 – 2021 will mark the year of building resilience. As we learn to embrace uncertainty, the new year will bring about significant changes in the way we work and live. Changes in user behavior patterns will trigger major shifts in consumption and business models.

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Your Partner Vetting Checklist: 7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Signing an Agreement

Crossbeam Blog

You’ve got an inbox full of partnership inquiries (Woohoo!). But, wait, why are your palms so sweaty? Maybe you’re thinking of all the work developing 20 partnerships at once requires, or maybe you don’t know which partnerships will deliver results that won’t disappoint.

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Hello, beautiful: Meet some of the top beauty influencers on YouTube

Impact

Beauty vloggers and content creators are among the most popular influencers, with millions of people tuning in to check out the latest dewy look, flawless contour, or GRWM (that’s “get ready with me”) tutorial. Tips, tricks, and inspiring looks are accompanied by product reviews and recommendations that can power up sales and awareness for all kinds of consumer brands, not just cosmetics.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Teams in Evolution – and Revolution – After the Pandemic

INSEAD Knowledge

How sensemaking can help you cope with unplanned, constant changes in your team.

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Are These Common In-Room Amenities Still Relevant In the COVID Era?

TRG Blog

More than just offering a simple bed and breakfast, hotel rooms are evolving and being engineered, one amenity at a time, to meet with changing traveller demands.

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The Twelve Principles of Collaboration

Phoenix Consulting Group

As we enter the Era of Ecosystems, it is apparent that we need different approach and thinking to manage these multi-dimensional and multi-lateral business relationships. I believe that the partner management processes we have developed as a profession are still relevant, but we do need to rethink how we apply them. Nine-way governance models just aren’t efficient and agile.

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Freshwater Supply Challenge Stimulates Innovation in Reverse Osmosis Seawater Desalination Technology

Frost & Sullivan

Technology convergence provides immense landscape of opportunities for reverse osmosis seawater desalination market participants, says Frost & Sullivan. Santa Clara, Calif. – January 14, 2021 – Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Radical Innovations in Reverse Osmosis Seawater Desalination , finds that the increase in freshwater demand for human consumption and industrial usage while freshwater resources decline is compelling governments worldwide to investigate innovative technological

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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The lowdown on affiliate networks vs SaaS platforms [podcast]

Impact

Affiliate marketing has changed dramatically from the early days of coupon sites. First came the emergence of affiliate networks. Now there is a new generation of affiliates that is much more aligned with the broader partnership ecosystem. These new kinds of performance-based partnerships represent a $12B industry that can deliver 28% or more of total revenue for enterprises that fully leverage the channel.

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Temperature Checks and ID Verification in Contactless Hotel Experience

TRG Blog

Contactless guest experience is the new reality of hospitality. In addition to changes in the front desk, elevators, and guest rooms , there are other areas where contactless technology has proved itself to be indispensable: temperature checks and ID verification. Body temperature checks, though not perfect, are a widely adopted preventative method.

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The Importance of Pride vs. Modesty for COOs

COO Alliance

When a COO envisions their future and the future of their company as a whole they often downplay their potential success. This is to avoid the chance of coming off as conceited or pompous and to maintain a sense of modesty. You don’t always need to downplay your success, though! Being a good COO is a delicate balance of pride and modesty for sure. You might put together a vision where you see yourself swimming in success.

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Asia-Pacific 5G Enterprise Market to Witness Massive Growth by 2024 as Mega Trends Fuel Industry Transformation

Frost & Sullivan

To support future applications, enterprises should explore 5G capabilities to serve their wireless connectivity requirements, finds Frost & Sullivan. Santa Clara, Calif. – January 11, 2021 – Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Mega Trends in Asia-Pacific to Drive the 5G Enterprise Market, 2019–2024 , finds that Mega Trends across the government and public sector, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications are posing new challenges to end users in vertical industries in the region.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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2021 Predictions for Building the Best Channel Partner Programs

ITA Group

2021 Predictions for Building the Best Channel Partner Programs. If there’s one thing I have to keep from 2020 it’s our newfound appreciation for the fundamentals of partner programs—communication, engagement and simplifying the ways to work together. The past year also taught us quite a couple additional lessons, like: Weathering & Overcoming. Failing forecasts.

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Business Continuity Planning for a Pandemic

CenterPoint Group

In the unfortunate event of a pandemic, it's critical to adjust your current business continuity plan and update regular procedures. Planning ahead can help reduce employee confusion and frustration in a time of stress, and can set up your facility for a safe, gradual return to normal. Planning for New Risks. In a business continuity plan , your facility identifies and plans for the risks that can impact your employees and production.

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How to Grow Sales With Less Risk

SFE Partners

Listen as Caleb Powers, Vice President of Sales for Mansfield Sales Partners, dives into the best ways to utilize an outside sales consulting firm to grow your company with less risk.