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Creating a Successful Fleet Operation Means Investing in Employees

Strategy Driven

In the last five years, Public Works leadership have taken many actions to build a sustainable future. The continuous challenges of recruitment, onboarding, and retaining mechanics led the Public Works leadership to reevaluate their approach to staffing. Background. The process started by reevaluating the role of mechanics.

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Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

These skills will vary by industry and function, but up-to-date financial, technical, managerial, and leadership skills are of universal value. Another urged executives to “continue to educate themselves commercially, financially, and operationally.”. The terms “flexible,” “adaptable,” and “curious” came up frequently.

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How to Select the Right Freelancer for the Work

Harvard Business Review

As organizations confront new competitive challenges and disruptive technologies, an agile approach to talent provides both a means of rapid strategic change, as well as a way to increase strategic capability. The benefits are compelling: increased flexibility, speed, and innovation as well as cost management.

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How To Expose The Real Issues That Underlie Paradoxes In Modern Organizations

Eric Jacobson

With the demands of technology, transparency, and constant connectedness, and calls for higher performance, leaders from the front line to the C-suite face complex dilemmas that cannot be easily denied or postponed. How do I support and promote others while still advancing my own career? Learn more about Leadership.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

“The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” ” Second, Keller says that for years it was considered bad for your career if information filtered up to the highest ranks. It’s not my job.”

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. Perspective is everything…continually changing, reflective and powerful for our future. Greatness is earned over an entire career. .’ What they’re really selling: Paging equipment. The New York Times.

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