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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones.

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Alphabet Workers Union to bring back the ‘Don’t be evil’ motto

HR Digest

More than 400 engineers and other workers at Google and its parent company, Alphabet , have formed a union open to all employees. The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) will give protection and resources to workers who join in the U.S. and Canada, and is intended to push the tech giant to live up to its motto: ‘Don’t be evil.’.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement. They ensure their people have access to both the financial and human resources they need to get the job done and cut them loose to do their thing. These leaders never micro-manage. Tone at the top is critically important.

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Leamington, Canada: The Little Town That Could

In the CEO Afterlife

Taking a lesson from the signature phrase in the illustrated children’s book, The Little Engine That Could , the Leamington community did not throw in the towel. That’s right, one day. But, one little town was not about to give in to the seemingly inevitable. This would save the jobs of 30% of the original workforce.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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The Big Picture of Business- Evergreen Business Strategies. Digest of Take-Aways From 36 Articles.

Strategy Driven

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. Long-term track record, unlike anything accomplished by any other individual, all contributing toward organizational philosophy, purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Develop and share own philosophies.

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