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How to Decide if Contractor Material Financing is Right for You

Strategy Driven

As an entrepreneur in the construction industry, you might find yourself juggling a backlog of accounts payable, a stack of past-due invoices from suppliers and new projects in your pipeline that require even more equipment and materials ASAP. Are You Trying to Grow Your Construction Business? Here’s a helpful checklist: 1.Are

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Misguided Social Construction - Be Careful What You Talk Yourself and Others Into

Management Craft

Check out this study from Harvard's (Emeritus) Michael Beer and Nancy Katz published in Human Resource Planning called Do Incentives Work? We also find evidence that the belief in executive incentives is a social construction, more prevalent among U.S. Sometimes coversations serve our goals, sometimes they don't.

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Skills Theory

LDRLB

The two primary theories to develop from a skills approach were Katz’sthree-skill approach and Mumford’s skills model of leadership. Finally, the majority of data used to construct the skills model was taken from the military, meaning its applicability to general organizations questionable. Path-Goal Theory.

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