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A Message to My Fellow White Board Chairs

Board Source

She was a colleague, but more than a colleague; we were friends—work friends, but friends nonetheless. I admired her from the moment I met her. I was in my early 30s and in my first administrator post—still a tad naïve and, in hindsight, overly confident without much experience to back it up. She was in her 40s and had been an academic leader for several years.

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Working From Home: AKA, How to Keep Your Cat out of your Zoom Meeting

Partners Preceptors

Ahhh, working from home. It sounds so dreamy, and it’s portrayed on TV as the most easily executable task there ever was. Picture it: the kids are off to school. The kitchen is sparkling clean from the previous night’s family dinner, where afterwards you enjoyed a nice card game as a family. Your house is … Continue reading Working From Home: AKA, How to Keep Your Cat out of your Zoom Meeting.

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THE POWER OF RESEARCH

Be Partner Ready

My favourite science communicator Carl Sagan once said “somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” Market research, a little like marketing & branding, is vital to corporates and brands but its often considered a luxury by non-profit management. Non-profits, like companies, exist to solve a problem. How can you solve a problem if you don’t understand it?

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4 Tips for Leaders Who Switch to Remote Work Teams

Jesse Lyn Stoner

Guest Post by Kevin Eikenberry One of the most common questions we hear from leaders who switch to remote work teams is, “How do I know if people are working?” It’s an understandable question – you’ve just moved from a situation where you could walk around the office and see people actively working to a […]. The post 4 Tips for Leaders Who Switch to Remote Work Teams appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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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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How Partner Revenue Can Be More Closely Tied To Revenue

CoSell

Looking for a game-changer? Tie partner revenue more closely to revenue. In partner co-selling, you’re making warm introductions with key sales partners. You’re connecting-the-dots for mutual success. You know the ideal partner to connect to your accounts and visa versa. Yet, like all sales activities, you are faced with one intractable enemy. What’s that?

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Three On-Demand Presentations to Watch with Your Alliance Management Team

Vantage Partners

The 2020 ASAP Global Summit featured many great presentations – and because the conference was virtual, these are all available to registered participants through August 18th. If you haven’t already explored the library of on-demand content, review the catalog and select a few sessions relevant to you and your company, and consider (virtually) getting together with your colleagues for a watch party.

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Getting Honest About Partner Certifications and Differentiation

The 2112 Group

Partner training and enablement are essential, but vendors need to do better in defining and measuring the true value of these programs. By Larry Walsh. Vendors frequently come to 2112 looking for help in cleaning up their training and enablement programs. Many technology companies boast numerous certificates for individuals and specializations for partner organizations that, on their face, reflect qualifications and competencies in various technical domains.

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Multistakeholder Approaches to Explainable Machine Learning

Partnership on AI

How might we widen the net on Explainable Machine Learning? In February of this year, the Partnership on AI (PAI) hosted a one-day, in-person workshop around the deployment of “explainable artificial intelligence” (XAI) in service of transparency and accountability goals. Our paper detailing the takeaways from this workshop has been accepted as a poster at the 2020 ICML Workshop on Extending Explainable AI Beyond Deep Models and Classifiers ( XXAI ) and as a spotlight at the Workshop on Human In

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Unearthing the Roots of Systemic Racism

INSEAD Knowledge

Dislodging deep-seated racism will require a comprehensive long-term strategy on the part of leaders, organisations and business schools.

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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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The Power of Leveraging: How collective spend can lead to drastic cost reduction for companies

CenterPoint Group

Collective buying power is the ability of a consumer group to leverage its group size in exchange for discounts on products. By partnering with other groups and organizations, leveraging becomes a powerful tool that can provide maximum benefits for all parties involved. This article will discuss who organizes collective spending, how it works, what its benefits are, and how you can take advantage of it.

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Retail Shopping Gets a New Look a 2020

Market Source Inc

In 2020, a natural threat—the coronavirus—is forcing change, and the retail sector cannot escape it. But even the challenge of navigating a pandemic could open doors for many businesses. The post Retail Shopping Gets a New Look a 2020 appeared first on MarketSource.

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Getting Honest About Partner Certifications and Differentiation

The 2112 Group

Partner training and enablement are essential, but vendors need to do better in defining and measuring the true value of these programs. By Larry Walsh. Vendors frequently come to 2112 looking for help in cleaning up their training and enablement programs. Many technology companies boast numerous certificates for individuals and specializations for partner organizations that, on their face, reflect qualifications and competencies in various technical domains.

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How Social Impact Start-ups Are Solving Brazil’s Covid-19 Challenges

INSEAD Knowledge

The persistent problem of inequality in Latin America leaves citizens more vulnerable to the coronavirus. Innovative platforms move towards balancing the scales.

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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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How to Ensure a Smooth Business Transition: Five Must-Have Characteristics of a Good Private Equity Firm

Borgman Capital

You’re considering your business. While many entrepreneurs educate themselves on what it takes to make a successful transaction happen, they often fall short of preparing for how to ensure a smooth transition between stepping away from their legacy and handing the reins to someone new. The first step to ensuring a smooth transition is to secure a good private equity firm who understands your business - from your financials to your management style - and aligns with your values on how to treat yo

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Six Keys to 2020 Retail Holiday Sales Success

Market Source Inc

Retailers and manufacturers who rely on retail distribution must prepare themselves now to benefit from end-of-year shopping to make the most of the holiday season and recapture at least some of the revenue they lost due to the pandemic. The post Six Keys to 2020 Retail Holiday Sales Success appeared first on MarketSource.

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Manipulated Media Detection Requires More Than Tools: Community Insights on What’s Needed

Partnership on AI

The challenge of identifying manipulated media, specifically content that deceives or misleads, is rightfully an urgent consideration for technology platforms attempting to promote high quality discourse. In June, Twitter labeled one of President’s Trump’s tweets as manipulated media. This was not the first time in recent weeks that the platform added warning labels to the President’s posts , which have been previously flagged for containing misleading information.

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How Luxury Is Reinventing Itself

INSEAD Knowledge

Luxury brands must secure a place in the hearts and minds of their customers, their partners and the public.

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver.

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PRM Software, and the Next Frontier—Co-Selling

CoSell

As sales leaders, we’re always looking for ways to expand our ability to connect the dots for the real, sustainable, transformative opportunity. Partner relationship management (PRM) software connects all the dots like a constellation that connects stars. It’s not a linear approach. Today’s PRM software is more focused on automated workflows, personalization, customization, and scalability.

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Why – and How – to Hire an Outlier

INSEAD Knowledge

An unconventional profile can be a tough sell, but the potential rewards are worth the risk.

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When Several Queues Are Better Than One

INSEAD Knowledge

One reliable method of queueing is less effective in knowledge industries. Here’s why.

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