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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

I have been a leader throughout my whole career which started in late teens when I was fortunate enough to be provided with an opportunity to participate in a two-year supervisor traineeship with a large retailer in Adelaide. Whether managers are prepared to acknowledge this is another point altogether! Why does CoachStation exist?

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s.

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Small Business Cash Flow Management: Why It’s Important and How to Deal With Problems

Strategy Driven

The businesses that fail to manage cash flow effectively are often doomed to failure. Read on to find out why cash flow is so important and how you can manage it effectively. Cover debts and protect your business credit – Proper management of your cash receipts means you’ll always be able to pay your debts and suppliers on time.

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Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans

Harvard Business Review

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business Review

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. Later that afternoon, at the end of a regular meeting with the finance team, Lance asked Damon to stay behind.

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A Problem Shared Is a Company Aligned

Harvard Business Review

The steady stream of new products, they complained, was too much for their retail clients to absorb. We needed, therefore, to bridge the gap between the interests of our client and the interests of our salespeople and their retail clients. Managing people Sales'