Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Acquisitions always get a lot of senior management attention and, for those who want it, there is no shortage of outside advice, including a lot in the management literature. Dump it, dump it all," Gordon Gekko says as the tape moves against him, and a lot of corporate divestitures have this feel to it — reactive.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. I quit my job, and here I am, working only on what I am good at: business quality management.

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