The Brief
These articles come from the RelSci 5, our weekly newsletter for and about organizational leaders. Its curated articles and insights revolve around a different theme each week to help you do your job better. Choose the email you want: Business, Finance or Nonprofit.
These articles come from the RelSci 5, our weekly newsletter for and about organizational leaders. Its curated articles and insights revolve around a different theme each week to help you do your job better. Choose the email you want: Business, Finance or Nonprofit.
1. What your sales team is doing wrong.
#relationshipmanagement
For members of your sales team, there may be no skill more critical to lead generation than relationship building. So why is almost everyone astoundingly bad at it? The reason, or so we suspect, is that networking is a very nuanced and highly subjective social dance with few set rules. Here’s what your organization can do.
- Curious how Linkedin can help? Enter Hubspot’s new contest for a free profile makeover.
2. How retaining every client hurts your business
#leadership
It’s not exactly the stuff leaders’ dreams are made of, but it’s a fact of business that occasionally, you must trim the fat if you want to grow. That means employees and, counter-intuitively, certain customers as well. Here’s why retaining every client can actually be a bad thing.
3. Why you need to diversify, seriously.
#orgculture
On why our unconscious biases are keeping our executive suites predominantly white and male, and what we can do about it
- Here’s an example of one woman’s journey to the executive suite.
4. What Cuba means for Airbnb
#industrynews
Capitalizing on the easing of travel restrictions to Cuba, Airbnb has become one of the first American companies to establish itself in the country, listing approximately 1,000 Cuban homestays on its site this week. But with limited internet access on the island, and tensions only just beginning to ease between the two countries, is this a sustainable location for Airbnb?
Our other burning questions:
Our other burning questions:
- On the other hand, perhaps Cuba is the perfect market for Airbnb?
- Can Airbnb’s relationships tell us anything about where the company might expand next?
5. Why Uber needs Joe Sullivan
#peoplemovements
In an attempt to weather a storm of security issues around the globe, Uber has stolen Facebook’s chief security officer Joe Sullivan and installed him as its first ever CSO. Sullivan, a former federal prosecutor, will helm both digital and physical security for the company, which is facing a slew of sexual assault lawsuits from passengers. So, can Sullivan keep passengers safe and stymie the litigation before it becomes an even bigger problem for Uber?
Our other burning questions:
Our other burning questions:
- Who in Sullivan’s network can act as an advisor as he takes on this massive new role?
- In-vehicle security is a major issue, but what about what happens after the passenger leaves the car?
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