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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. How the new job of process owner can tie together the separate silos that characterize the traditional organization to change the way work is done and how people relate to one another. There is an alternative to the fragmented work process, and it allows us to be faster, cheaper, and better.

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Perhaps the best course of action (and I can hardly believe I'm writing the words) is to line up with everyone else and set some 2011 goals for ourselves. Goals must have a specific time period And now for some subtle nuances that will help make your 2011 goals more achievable: 1. So why fight it? Goals must be prominent 9.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. She told me repeatedly: you need to better articulate the business plan, especially the decision-making process.