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7 Reasons Why You Can’t Do It Yourself

Strategy Driven

Unfortunately, for solo entrepreneurs, technology serves a dual purpose, acting both as a fit-for-purpose tool and an advisor. Just as anybody can use a hammer, only trained professionals can build a house. Therefore, the landing page is a mini page that displays highly targeted content. I’ve got a tool that does it for me.

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Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path

Strategy Driven

some sort of change management to ensure that the new and the old work together. Bringing in something new into an existent system – whether it’s a purchase or an implementation – is a change management problem. A Buying Decision Is A Change Management Problem. A Buying Decision Is A Change Management Problem.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what?

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. ” The company was already developing content, targeted specifically at recruits, that demonstrated its “culture and the type of company we want to be in 1, 5, and 10 years.”

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Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System

Deming Institute

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. Deming is the core of our management.”

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