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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless.

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Morning Advantage: The Taco that Created 15,000 Jobs

Harvard Business Review

It has been the biggest launch in Taco Bell history,” said Greg Creed, chief executive officer of Taco Bell, which saw same-store sales rise 8 percent in 2012. But the Doritos Locos Taco, a faux cheese-caked calorie coffin, is seemingly an innovative job creator. “It Last year, we added 15,000 people to handle the growth.”

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10 Steps To Accelerate Meetings And Drive Productivity

Tanveer Naseer

There’s the content of the meeting, the information, the debate, the hammering out of different points of view. This blog is adapted from Chapter 7 of “ Speed: How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution ” by John Zenger and Joseph Folkman. We think it best for the leader to have an estimated time and to keep the pace brisk.