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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry

Strategy Driven

In the US, they grew at a rate of 100 percent from 2000 to 2018. Despite major turbulences (like the one of 2014), OPEC has successfully managed the supply/demand in the past. Control of work will optimize management systems and help organizations overcome operational hiccups.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. ” Management Science 56.2 Paper presented at Academy of Management Meetings. v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

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How Credit Card Companies Make Their Money

Strategy Driven

Copyright 2007-2018 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This effectively runs up debt more reliably than if they advertised the same way across the board. On average, each credit account makes about $213 for the company per year. This is an area in which credit companies vary wildly based on the credit standing of the cardholder.

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Is Your C-Suite Working As A Team?

Lead Change Blog

The Deloitte 2018 Global Human Capital Trends Survey identified ten common themes that are keeping global business leaders awake at night and the overwhelming winner was the lack of alignment and collaboration at board level (the C-Suite). However, this is all about to change. So where do you start to get the C-suite working as a team?

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Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors. In a January 2018 survey conducted by Innovation Leader, the #2 agenda item among innovators in large companies is “how to spur cultural change and risk-taking.) Private vs. Public.

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4 Steps for Thinking Critically About Data Measurements

Harvard Business Review

Managers use measurements every day to guide their analyses, decisions, and planning. Indeed, measurement is much more difficult than most managers appreciate. Managers must protect themselves by understanding weaknesses in measurements and taking these weaknesses into account as they use them. It should be trustworthy, right?

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After a Merger, Don’t Let “Us vs. Them” Thinking Ruin the Company

Harvard Business Review

These are heady numbers and 2018 is expected to continue apace. The interviewees, who were in the process of an M&A deal or who had recently been through one, included C-suite executives, private equity dealmakers, business owners, entrepreneurs, and middle managers. trillion for the past four years.