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Rocking the Boat to Drive Team Success

Sales and Marketing Management

Everyone raises their hand. Sales managers need to abandon the conflict avoidance mindset and embrace productive conflict. So we file it away mentally, with the best of intentions to raise the issue later on when we have more time (which is never). Then I ask, “How long have you known this?”

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Streaks, Variegations, and Pirates

10,000 Birds

All three species mentioned in this article breed on these islands, but the Piratic Flycatcher employs a truly piratic strategy: the breeding pair targets a recently built woven nest, often by a Yellow Oriole or Yellow-rumped Cacique but they have also been recorded targeting the nests of other flycatchers.

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Parental Investment Theory

10,000 Birds

The most like strategy of investment by bird parents to evolve is probably both parents caring for the offspring, probably taking turns at the nest, and bringing food back to the chick. It has been shown that courtship is negatively correlated with abandonment. Prior to insemination, things are different as well.

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The race to bigness

Sales and Marketing Management

The common way in the start-up world is to raise money from venture capital. Here’s a guy who has had epic success with blitzscaling, yet realizes when it may not be a proper strategy for a different endeavor. Blitzscaling is no more infallible than any other strategy. There are also ways to blitzscale without bringing in money.