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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. When one customer is responsible for the lion’s share of your sales, it’s like golden handcuffs.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ ’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Communications.