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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

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Do Less Better is also a culture and a strategy of organizations and their leaders. They have added a vast array of canned goods, juices, fresh and frozen foods, organics, and baby food to their core soup business. If you plant as well as prune, your organization will prosper. Do Less Better is the name of my book. Think again.

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What Makes P&G Great?

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Once taken, they co-operatively move forward toward the common goal. The organization is structured in a way that almost every proposal requires concurrence from a peer. It takes individuals with a lot of confidence in their intelligence and spirit to work happily in this kind of system. P&G people are highly competent.

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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader | In the CEO.

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How is it possible for three months of crisis management ineptitude to occur in an organization the size of BP with a product as environmentally toxic as oil? this was how to deny them their goal. Compared to Giuliani’s challenge, a business crisis should be a cakewalk for the organization’s leader. But it is not.