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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business.

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

Women on Business

With the highest per capita spending across all industries, Washington, D.C. Detroit , MI With the auto industry and heavy manufacturing in decline, Detroit is using its stimulus dollars to combat soaring unemployment. Women Leadership and Mad Men Some revolutions are bloody, and some are flash-in-the-pan moments.

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Seven Lessons American Manufacturing’s Decline Can Teach Any Company

Strategy Driven

And that is a failure of American leadership on an epic scale; a failure of government to work with manufacturing instead of against it; a failure of business to adapt to the global marketplace instead of running from it. But most of all, it is a failure of leadership to harness and unleash the remarkable potential of the American worker.

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Opportunities were abundant, especially with used cars, since so many dealers were panicking and slashing their inventories even as demand for affordable transportation increased.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

Five thousand years ago, use of the wheel began to spread from Mesopotamia across Eurasia, revolutionizing transport and enabling chariot warfare. Over the past three centuries, the spread of industrial technologies gradually weakened Britain while stimulating the United States. It pledges $1.5 Technology belongs on that list as well.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

Tesco came to the party much later in the 1980s but ended up winning with its “good-better-best” private label lines, setting the industry standard for how to play the private label game. Blindly transporting a retail concept across international borders is seldom a recipe for success. Ethics Global business Retail'

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