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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Someone else designed an experiment to get a plant operation down to zero accidents.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

On those grounds, he says, things look bad not just for Sears and all large chain stores, which before the war were considered a threat to so many Americans’ dreams of setting up their own independent local retail operations. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail.

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