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January 19, 2023

5 steps to grow customer lifetime customer value

Your customer relationship ending after the first transaction is similar to a romantic relationship ending after the first date: not good.

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Greg Shove
Juan Pablo Del Alcázar Ponce
3 mins
For students
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November 17, 2022

Every leader should have an operating manual. Here are 5 steps to build yours.

The things you do might be intuitive to you – but if they confuse your team, you're in trouble. Here's how to build an operating manual to make your decisions clear to everyone.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
2 mins
For students
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November 2, 2022

Want to be a better investor? Adopt these three mindsets

Think like an artist, an analyst, and a skeptic to make better decisions.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
4 mins
For students
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October 24, 2022

How to find your brand's purpose

Developing a brand purpose is a fundamental step for any company. Justin Lee shares how he uses the Section frameworks to uncover why his business exists.

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Greg Shove
Justin Lee
For students
brand strategy
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March 3, 2023

How to know if NFTs are right for your business

Pop quiz. When you hear the word NFT, do you think:

💪 I know exactly what an NFT is and how to use it for my business

🤔 I think I understand what NFTs are, but I have no clue if they’re relevant to me

🤢 Argh! I should know what NFTs are, but thinking about them makes my head hurt

If you answered the latter two options, you’re not alone. Don’t worry – we sat down with NYU Stern Professor Sabrina Howell to simplify it for you.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
7 min
For students
NFTs
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March 3, 2023

Self-assessment: Does your team trust you?

I’m sure you’ve had a manager you didn’t trust. 

Maybe that manager said she valued your time – but then canceled your 1:1 at the last minute because she just had to run out and get a smoothie. 

Maybe he called you out in front of the team for a mistake he made. (Truly an unforgivable offense). 

Whatever it was, you know that once trust is lost, it’s hard to get back...

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
For students
Management
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May 17, 2023

4 steps to attracting and keeping the best talent in business (even if you're not Google)

You don't need to be a big tech firm to attract, recruit, and retain the best talent. Here's our four-step process for doing it right.

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Greg Shove
Mary Fenton
6 mins
For companies
Talent acquisition
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May 3, 2023

Which skills matter? Employees and L&D leaders don’t always agree [research]

Which skills matter in the modern workplace – to get promoted, to get ahead, to impact the business? It turns out that employees and learning leaders don’t always agree.

We recently surveyed 10,000 students and 250 learning leaders on the skills that are their biggest priority in 2023.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
3 mins
For companies
talent management

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