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AARP – The Last Membership Card You Will Ever Need!

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I remember when I was at the beginning of my career and calling on AARP as a direct marketer to do their work. Where has time gone. You know the work of calling on Senior Citizens. My wife, Chris , thought it would be quite amusing to put the direct mail on my desk, yes, including the membership card. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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How Collaboration Tools Can Improve Knowledge Work

Harvard Business Review

Frederick Winslow Taylor , regarded as the father of scientific management and one of the first management consultants in the early 1900s, believed workers were incapable of dissecting and improving their jobs. Taylor expected workers to comply with a standard set of steps defined by process experts (including Taylor himself).

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. But a career professor? pretty much ever since.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business." So throw Frederick W. So throw Frederick W.