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January 25, 2023

How to build a scorecard to evaluate your well-being

New year, new you? Use Pedro Zuloaga's scorecard to evaluate your life and set measurable goals for improvement in 2023.

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Greg Shove
Pedro Zuloaga
3 mins
For students
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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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March 3, 2023

3 steps to uncover your real competitors (hint: they may not be who you think)

April Dunford is a product positioning expert who helps executives zero in on the real competitive alternatives to their product.

In this post, we’ll share some of her tips.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
3 mins
For students
Product positioning
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March 3, 2023

7 steps to writing a powerful sales pitch

In life, great stories can have a profound impact. Hence why you (we) wept like a baby at the end of Titanic.

But great stories don’t just belong on the big screen. Their power belongs in the business world too. The key to a sales pitch that wins clients, gets business, and drives results? You guessed it. Storytelling. 

In this post, we’re going to walk you through positioning master April Dunford’s sales story framework. This is the narrative that helps you easily communicate the unique value of your product to customers.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
8 mins
For students
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October 31, 2025

Most leaders are thinking about AI all wrong

2026 is 60 short days away, so here’s the wake up call you need: you’re still thinking about AI through the lens of software, and the survival of your company depends on you shifting that mindset.

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Greg Shove
Edmundo Ortega
6 mins
For companies
AI
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October 9, 2025

Squishy vs. hard ROI: Why leaders need both

One of the hardest parts of AI ROI is figuring out how to report qualitative wins to execs who want quantitative reports. At our AI:ROI Conference, Michael Domanic shared the framework for approaching these two disparate kinds of ROI.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
For companies
AI

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