What buyers want now

There’s no question that, within the professional buyer/seller environment, preferences and practices have changed dramatically in the last 18 months. In many organizations—on both sides of the desk—the dynamic between

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Jim Marshall
Building the right sales team

If you’re reading this article, chances are pretty good that you’re a business owner, general manager, company executive or sales manager. And, as we’re heading into the fourth quarter of

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Leadership Tampa Bay announces class of 2022

Leadership Tampa Bay has named its incoming class members for 2022. For more than 30 years, Leadership Tampa Bay’s mission has been to engage its members with businesses and community

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CEOs in Schools looking for business leaders for this year’s program

CEOs in Schools is looking for Tampa Bay area executives to spend a day away from the office and step into the classroom. On November 5, executives will have the

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Owning it vs. phoning it in at the workplace

By Susan Mauer, Tampa Bay market president for Axiom Bank Do your employees show up at work to be an asset, as if they own the business? Or do they

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Six effective ways to motivate your sales team during the ‘dog days’

Welcome to the dog days of summer—that time when the temperature and humidity are still unbearable, families are trying to squeeze in the last days of summer vacation before going

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Hard Lessons: Building outstanding teams

For more than 25 years, it has been my pleasure to hire, develop and coach, staff, and senior executives, at both startups and Fortune 100 companies. Many lessons learned came

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Somewhere I Belong

Organizations must practice diversity, equity and inclusion to ensure people feel like they belong. Why? Because business depends on it. Let’s say you’re an established, well-known, organization in the Tampa

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Keeping sales momentum in quarter 3

Whether your company is large or small, whether you have experienced serious disruptions in your business or managed to avoid them, it’s likely that the last year-and-a-half has taken a

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How business leaders can get involved in early education — and why it’s important

By Aakash Patel I spent a Friday morning, this spring, on the car line in Gorrie Elementary School in Tampa. Instead of sitting in an office or a breakfast meeting,

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From communications to community, the president of AC4S Technologies is making an impact

Hugh Campbell spent 10 years in active duty with the United States Army, but he’d never hurt a fly. What he did have was a unique ability to assist operations

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Tampa Bay Chamber’s Leadership Tampa program graduates 37 members

Leadership Tampa, a program of the Tampa Bay Chamber, celebrated the graduation of 37 members of the class of 2021. Members of Leadership Tampa are local business people who hold

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