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I was recently reading a fascinating article about how the George W. Bush Administration was very concerned about the possibility of a pandemic. For three years,...
Rolling forecasts are still a fairly new concept for businesses. In many organizations, financial planning is as follows: at the end of every year, you create...
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Salesforce is the king of enterprise customer relationship management (CRM). HubSpot is the king of CRM tools for small to medium-size businesses. The CRM space is...
There are two major issues affecting the world right now—and specifically the United States. One is the pandemic, which has proven itself to be much more...
Life-changing conversations don’t always happen after a presentation in the workplace—they happen in elevators, hallways, and break rooms. Your greatest...