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3 Ways to Confront Economic Adversity in 2011

Coaching Tip

Nevertheless, politicians, business leaders and informed citizens can hurry the process along and put America back at the top of its economic game by understanding the value of time & patience, deregulation and entrepreneurship. . Time and Patience. Please visit www.powerofadversity.net or www.weatherchem.com for more information.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

They might include sales productivity metrics such as market share, the company’s ability to charge premium prices relative to peers, or sales force productivity. Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. We detail this process in our HBR article, " Make Time for the Work That Matters."). Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The private sector spends three times that , mostly on translational research intended to transform basic discoveries into new products. There is a wide chasm that separates an initial discovery and a viable product idea.

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When Ingenuity Saves Lives

Harvard Business Review

Enter jugaad innovation — a cost-effective approach for creating affordable products and services using limited resources. Realizing that their customers were doctors and parents in villages, they set out to identify the product features that would bring the most value to these rural users. million premature babies die each year.

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

This is consistent with a 2011 article in the Journal of Finance, which also found that “patents of private equity-backed firms applied for in the years after the investment are more frequently cited.” All of this adds to the contentious debate over whether PE investors sacrifice long-term growth for short-term profit.

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Scaling: The Problem of More

Harvard Business Review

Take Citrus Lane CEO Mauria Finley, whose company was experiencing some growing pains, appropriately enough; the startup sends monthly packages of great baby products to moms. Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. After raising $5.1