Posts by: Amol Tembe
As the Marketing Director for Worldwide Business Research, Amol oversees a multi-function team, and in addition takes on sales operations responsibilities. Amol believes two things: (1) B2B marketers generally focus too much on above the funnel activities and not enough on what is within the funnel (2) Today’s marketing executives are the business managers of the modern company.
amoltembe has written 25 articles for The eTail Blog.
Leadership Tip of the Day: How to Employ Servant Leadership
A great leader works for their staff. Period. They didn’t tell us that when we first dream of being a ‘manager,’ but the simple fact is that we’re not effective leaders until we adopt the…
Leadership Tip of the Day: Job Function Vs. Job Essence
Look at the following two items for a customer service manager: Job Function: Answer phones and process orders (Task oriented) Job Essence: Create delighted customers! (The spirit of what we want to achieve) Our head…
Leadership Tip of the Day: Peter Drucker, Redefined
“Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.” Peter F. Drucker, the Austrian-born father of modern ‘management’ education is widely quoted as saying this, but to me (and I’m not alone) it…
Leadership Tip of the Day: Do Less Better
My back to school resolution this year (and yes, I still make them though I’ve been out of school for what seems like ages) is to avoid initiative overload. At times I feel like our team has 100 initiatives. That’s…
Leadership Tip of the Day: Learning to Say Thank You
Flashback: My first job out of undergrad was selling insurance for a State Farm agency. I had a great mentor who taught me how to sell insurance; how to help people see the “no-brainer” decision…
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