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What I’ve Read Lately: Why People Fail

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Why People Fail is actually a twist on words. It could just as easily been titled along the lines of How to Be Successful. Siimon provides an easily read book that highlights 16 key points underlying how people set themselves up to fail.

Step by step, Siimon discusses ways readers can incrementally work to improve themselves, from self-image, through proper health and exercise, to rituals and persistence…to name a few.

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How To: Get Your Sales Team Onboard with SaaS

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Your Sales team is where your company’s efforts meet the world. They’re where the rubber meets the road. Your organizations efforts can live, or die, based on the performance of your Sales team. The happier they are, the more positive they feel, the more confident they are in your offerings, the better they sell. And the better revenue flows.

But what if the apple cart gets upset?

This is a challenge currently facing a lot of companies, particularly in the B2B (business-to-business) space. As SaaS offerings become more common-place, traditional software sales models are being upset.

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Costa Concordia: Lesson In Failed Leadership

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By now, if you’ve tapped into almost any media source, you’ve heard of how the Costa Concordia ran aground, sank, and created a world of mayhem for all involved.

We all make mistakes. To do so is to be human. And, while tragic, that mistake is not itself where the real failure of leadership was demonstrated.

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Product Visioning—How Often Do You Do It?

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Product Managers need to define, own, and communicate the dream they have for their product(s). The process they go through in developing the dream, can be referred to as Visioning.

The question then is: how often should you go through the process?

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Social Media & Product Management (Pt. 4)

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Part (4) of a series on Social Media & Product Management. Not just for Advertising, tools like AdWords can be creatively used for more than lead generation.

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Who Has the Final Say?

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The product manager drives their products forward. Yet, who really has the final say regarding key decisions?

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Create a Culture of Greatness

“To build a winning a team and a successful organization you must create a culture of greatness.” Guest post by Jon Gordon, author and WSJ contributor.

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Social Media & Product Management (Pt. 3)

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Part (3) of a series on Social Media & Product Management.
Looking more closely at the Media bucket: networking, aggregators, and outposts.

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Social Media & Product Management (Pt. 2)

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Part (2) of a series on Social Media & Product Management. Around awhile now, social media remains a bugaboo for many. In this part, we begin discussing the new tools organized into 4 buckets.

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Social Media & Product Management (supplement)

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Go to social media friendly events and you can hear the same comments. They go something like this: Everybody is using…(take your pick). Well, it isn’t true.