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I Wrote a Book!

Mills Scofield

For years, many of my clients, founders I’ve advised, and mentees have asked me to write a book; it took one of them to push me to do it*. So, I wrote a book , Value Proposition: Positioning for Success , on continually creating, testing, and building compelling value propositions that meet or exceed real customers’ real needs.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 7 of 7

Strategy Driven

companies more than $31 billion each year in lost productive time. A key contributor to this malaise is our contemporary view of work – that it is an endless series of ‘things to do,’ things which have commercial value for the enterprise but produce little or no sense of value for ‘me.’

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Managing a Remote Team: 12 Best Practices for Better Productivity

Strategy Driven

To ascertain staff productivity in teams that are scattered across various locations, below are twelve best practices to effectively manage a mobile/remote workforce: 1. For open-source developers, there’s GitHub , where they can collaborate on, review and manage code. Measure productivity. Book value is not guaranteed.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7

Strategy Driven

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. Shift Your Understanding. Consider leaving a comment!

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7

Strategy Driven

By blindly creating and/or tolerating working conditions in which people do not and often cannot effectively listen to one another, we kill productivity and profitability. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 2 of 7.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 6 of 7

Strategy Driven

Many organizations confuse the occasional ‘lightning strike’ of a new idea or product innovation with having a culture that fosters innovation. Thus, in many organizations, innovators are largely suppressed for the sake of “productivity.” Ironically, this only kills productivity in the long run.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 2 of 7

Strategy Driven

Degenerative or unproductive moods are tremendous, yet invisible, killers of productivity and profitability. Yet contemporary management theory rarely recognizes the importance of moods and the impact they can have on productivity and profitability. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Mood is everything.