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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2016

Curious Cat

The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010). How to Manage What You Can’t Measure (2010) *. Increasing the Adoption of Management Improvement Ideas in Your Organization (2010). Why Don’t Football Players Just Thrown the Ball Out of Bounds to Stop the Clock (2010). Deming and Software Development (2014) *.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Leadership Teams: Why Two Are Better Than One

Harvard Business Review

We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. By the end of 2006 we had created the #1 most requested inventory software for use with QuickBooks and were solidly profitable.

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HP's Decade-Long Departure

Harvard Business Review

Yesterday HP announced that it would exit the PC and tablet computer business , focusing on higher-margin "strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets." By the time their success was worth noticing, in 2004, HP and Dell decided to dabble in devices.

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Act Like a Leader Before You Are One

Harvard Business Review

In late 2010, after ten years at Citi, Heather Espinosa was promoted to managing director. Mike Subelsky, the co-founder and CTO at Staq, a tech start-up that makes software for digital advertising companies, spent most of his early career in roles with lots of responsibility, but not much authority. "I

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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business Review

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% percentage points.

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Zappos’ CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer-Led Culture

Harvard Business Review

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. We also lost some good people: Our star software developer loved San Francisco and decided not to leave. In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions. Culture That Drives Performance.

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