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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

You may value the team and company putting time and resources into successful projects, but don’t want to see the company waste money on failing ones. Making sure this project is successful is important to me, and I think it’s critical that the company makes good use of limited resources.

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What Your Organization Really Needs from You: Influence and Impact

Leading Blog

Success is all about getting others to care about what you care about. As a result, Tommy was able to step back and let his team sort out operational problems without his involvement. L EADERS in today’s multinational, matrixed, diverse business world have impact through their ability to influence others.

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Ken Melrose Completes His Service on Earth

Modern Servant Leader

As such, many items like lawnmowers and chainsaws can harm operators when mishandled. The industry practice whenever an operator was harmed or killed was to dispatch lawyers to quickly resolve the matter. Ken’s leadership at Toro was not only a cultural success, but a financial success as well.

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Three Ways Document Management Software Can Streamline Operations

Strategy Driven

Going paperless is a great way to streamline office operations – and help save the planet by reducing paper. In 2005, he sold the company to Thomson Fast-Tax and then began to focus his attention on paperless office software. You just finished reading Three Ways Document Management Software Can Streamline Operations !

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Who Are The Process Whisperers, And Why Should We Be Listening To Them?

Terry Starbucker

Back in 2005, when I was SVP of Operations for a cable television company (Bresnan Communications), I started hearing whispers… They were telling me things about the business that needed our attention. Things that weren’t working. And things that were working beautifully. Because they generated more revenue, and LESS cost.

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Disaster and Contingency Planning Lessons from the ICU

Lead Change Blog

Are you a leader tasked with planning for routine operations along with the response when routines are disrupted in ways big or small? Then you need to remember that success, in Swanepoel’s words, “isn’t just the next move – it’s what you do three, four, even 10 steps after that really counts.”. When Plans Fail.

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

This is especially so as around two-thirds of the 40 million new jobs created in the US economy between 1980 and 2005 were created by new SMEs. In relative terms, this may be a small number, but when set against the 20 million or so SMEs operating across Europe, it’s a vast number of innovative firms.