Posts by Jana Bangerter
Episode 38: What This Shanghai-Based Lawyer Wants American MLMs to Know About China
Is Your China Strategy Too Reckless? Too Timid? Nonexistent? There’s good money in selling to Chinese consumers but the People’s Republic of China restricted direct sales to single-level sales commissions. The Chinese economy is growing. Consumerism is on the rise. Word of mouth marketing is king in China. Are you going after this market? Maybe…
Read MoreEpisode 36: How LegalShield Became a Great Place to Work
Nancy and Kenny just wrapped up their series of podcasts about employee and distributor engagement. Those episodes detail evidence-based approaches you can use to make your company a great place to work. But we wanted to give you more than just the theories and strategies. We wanted to answer the question: What does it look…
Read MoreHow Work Friends Help You Grow, Adapt, and Get Things Done
When the people on your team don’t get along, things can get dicey quick. You can’t force friendship among your hires (or your recruits), but you can do a lot to encourage it. And you should! Why? When we like the people we work with, we get more done and we go a lot further…
Read MoreDo You Know Which Kind of Leader Your People Need?
Can you name the two types of leaders? Sorry for pulling a “there are only two types of people” on you. But, when it comes to leadership, there are two big umbrella categories that almost all good leaders fall under. Each type serves a different purpose. No doubt, you’ve met them both: There’s the flashy…
Read MoreNo Country Comes into the Modern Era Without Access to Electricity
Imagine living without electricity, all the way down at the end of the last road out into the country. In this imagined life, you occupy a part of the world that got cell phones before landlines, lightbulbs, and stoves. At night, you send text messages by candle light while your dinner cooks over an open…
Read MorePower to the Poor!
Back in July, we released an article about selling to the poor—the bottom of the international economic pyramid. This is a strange topic. You might have had some knee-jerk reactions to the phrase “selling to the poor,” and (if they were anything like my knee-jerk reactions) they were probably wrong. At first blush, the notion…
Read MoreYou Can’t Grow Without Feedback (and Top Performers Know It)
Do you suck at giving feedback? Are you hurting people’s feelings? Or, are you so afraid to hurt feelings that you never tell people what you know they’re doing wrong? Many of us get feedback wrong. The right way to do it is not obvious, yet even managers rarely get evidence-based training on how to…
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