#AskPeshev 149: Proven To Work

So, yes—we've now crossed 2,000 email subscribers!Let's celebrate by highlighting some of the most fundamental concepts of business strategy and management, as well as focusing on what has been proven to work. Don't miss any featured stories this week! 👌 Mario

 Business Strategy Harvard Business Review: The C-Suite Skills That Matter MostFor a long time, whenever companies wanted to hire a CEO or another key executive, they knew what to look for: somebody with technical expertise, superior administrative skills, and a track record of successfully managing financial resources. When courting outside candidates to fill those roles, they often favored executives from companies such as GE, IBM, and P&G and from professional-services giants such as McKinsey and Deloitte, which had a reputation for cultivating those skills in their managers.Read more… Management McKinsey: Choosing to Grow: The Leader’s BlueprintGrowth is something every CEO and business leader aspires to deliver, but for many, it remains elusive. About a quarter of companies don’t grow at all, and between 2010 and 2019, only one in eight achieved more than 10 percent revenue growth annually.1 Sustained, profitable growth is possible, however, and it comes down to “choice.”Read more… Recruitment Software Advice: Looking for Candidates in All the Wrong Places? Try One of These 6 Recruitment Sourcing StrategiesIt’s no secret that filling open roles has become much more difficult for recruiters over the last few years. But what may be news to you is that the challenges HR professionals face when it comes to acquiring talent start at the very beginning of the recruiting process: sourcing.Read more… Marketing Entrepreneur: 6 Proven Business Marketing Strategies to Grow During a RecessionProtect your business from the looming recession with these business marketing strategies! Help ensure your business has long-term growth. In 2022, the United States is fortunate enough not to be in a recession. However, the odds of a recession in 2023 are on the rise. Experts predict there's currently a 30% chance of recession, and that number has doubled over three months.Read more… Sales Market Watch: For Small Businesses, Rising Rates Are Leading To Lower Optimism. Here Are 7 Things They Should Do Now to SurviveThis index give insight into delinquency rates, new loan volumes and optimism among small-business owners. Small-business owners are faring OK financially right now, but their worries about the future are mounting, according to a new Small-Business Financing Index from NerdWallet. This is the first installment of the NerdWallet SMB Financing Index. It tracks and weights data from multiple sources, beginning in December 2021.Read more… Featured Story of the Week How to Make Money Blogging for Beginners (10 Success Stories of Bloggers)There are thousands of ways to make money online but making money by blogging is one of the most preferred and proven methods to generate income. If you are blogging for money (that you should be—eventually) and have not yet discovered the actual ways to see money coming into your account, then you are in need of some real ways that you can copy and incorporate into your blogging strategy. Have you ever searched on the web for “how to make money online for beginners”? You will most likely end up with some copy-pasted ideas, but the real problem with those ideas is they fail to show the actionable strategies that can make you money.Read more…