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How to Reduce Operational Costs for Your Small Business 

Strategy Driven

These options tend to be much more affordable and can reach a larger audience. Content creation is a fantastic way to gain an audience and attract potential customers. Leverage Cost-Effective Marketing Strategies When it comes to marketing, don’t settle for expensive traditional methods.

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Break the Cycle

Deming Institute

Ru ssell Ackoff had a profound capacity for using stories to educate his audiences about the basic concepts of managing systems, both in his lectures and in his books. Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. He also had a profound way with words. Such thinking embodies the “production viewed as a system” advice that W.

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Delivering Your Innovative Ideas

Harvard Business Review

Ordinarily, experts — I use that word broadly — either try to make their expertise more accessible to the target audience or try to "educate" or "train" people into understanding and acceptance. More crassly, the "experts" alternately try to dumb their material down or lift the intellectual capacity of their audience up.