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The Best Ways That Driving Instructors Can Stand Out to Potential Clients

Strategy Driven

Modern, green vehicles signal you to operate an up-to-date, sustainable business using the latest models packed with helpful instructional tech and safety features. Creating buzz as an expert instructor through marketing creativity, unique services and genuine care for students’ goals sets you apart.

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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

In the CEO Afterlife

Today, 40% of Nike’s revenue comes from apparel and sporting goods. What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. The goal isn’t more people; it’s less. They are kidding themselves. Nike began as a shoe company. Have they also lost their way? Nike is a Do Less Better company.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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How to Hire a CEO You Won’t Want to Fire

Harvard Business Review

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately.

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Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste

Harvard Business Review

Operations in a Connected World. Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

Back in the ‘90s, LEGO had cluttered its corporate structure with the complexity that comes with acquiring a variety of businesses from apparel to theme parks. Their goal is to make accounting, simple. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines.

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