Learnings From Across the Pond

Historically, in Europe, interims work full-time until the assignment ends. But fractionalization – an increasing factor in talent staffing and management – is creating new opportunities in the interim field. By market, 51% of Spanish interims and 40% of Italian interims were on part-time rather than full-time assignments. Interims in most other markets reported an average of 20-30%, and 25% was the overall European average of fractional assignments.

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The Corporate Soldier versus The Entrepreneur

It is a comfortable environment to navigate. It does not require original thinking, and there is always a justification. And CYA and righteousness are built in. Everything within the corporate system seems to make ‘sense’.

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Moving the Needle

Move the needle is an idiom that means to make a change that is noticeable, to modify something so that the effect is measurable. Most often, moving the needle is used in a positive sense, meaning to make progress toward a goal.

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What Is Your Leadership Style?

The best leaders do two things: they can knowingly and intently apply different styles based on what the situation calls for; while staying true to themselves and reliable to those around them.

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Social Selling for Fractional Executives: Get Started with Your Pipeline of New Customers

We'll discuss the basics of social selling and how you can get started right away. We'll also talk about some of the benefits of social selling and how it can help you grow your business.

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The Top 6 Signs of a Bad Sales Manager

It is a very personal list. Because what one person may consider bad sales management is looked upon very favorably by someone else. There are also contradicting professional opinions on the same management style.

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Do Not Hire

Especially in the startup world, pivots on everything from product to GTM strategy are very common. Most of those directly impact employees. And even without major pivots, startups go through phases or stages in their growth process.

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How to Lead a Sales Team at an Enterprise Software Company

When executives put their hiring criteria together, I would implore them to throw out the regurgitated and stale approach so often used and statistically unsuccessful - wait for it - “the rolodex and product experts.”

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Bill of Rights for Fractional and Interim Executives

As a Fractional and Interim Executive in partnership with Vendux, as a solopreneur running your own business in the gig economy, and as a human helping other humans, we believe this is YOUR Bill of Rights.

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