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December 17, 2018 How to Talk to Your Boss When You're Underperforming By Rebecca Knight Focus on solutions, not excuses.

Influence Study: When Leaders Take Sexual Harassment Seriously, So Do Employees by Chloe Hart, Alison Dahl Crossley, Shelley Correll It's on management to set the tone. Sales & Marketing Building a Direct-to-Consumer Strategy Without Alienating Your Distributors by Ned Calder, Shahriar Parvarandeh, Michael Brady Three ways to minimize risk. Business models Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology by Mark W. Johnson It's true for both startups like Slack and mature companies like Domino's. Business law Stopping Data Breaches Will Require Help from Governments by Samir C. Jain and Lisa M. Ropple Companies should be prepared, but can't thwart every attack.

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