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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. Several of our initiatives set the industry standard for successful firm management. Together, we identify deficiencies and implement solutions.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. offers the broadest scope of recovery-funded business opportunities.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. finance, I.T.,

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

In the lean-manufacturing context, in contrast, assembly line workers learn to execute a variety of production tasks, take responsibility for product quality, and are encouraged to find ways to improve the production process. Workers tend to earn more and report higher engagement with their jobs.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. But today there is a third approach, one that will become the dominant path for most entrepreneurs, especially those building information products. Bricolage , a French word by origin, means the construction of things from a set of available items.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. Hundreds of millions of additional dollars are being spent on professional services, ancillary products and other offerings. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. No selling of products or services. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines.

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