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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

Innovation Advocate. 11 2,410 220 2,346 Brian Tracy Personal Development Professional Speaker, Author, Success Expert, CEO of Brian Tracy International¬ô 12 254,000 20,600 1,064,000 Charles Duhigg Personal Development New York Times reporter ([link] ) and author of The Power of Habit ([link] ). It is a manifesto of human creativity.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

. “For most of the last half-century — 84 percent of the time since 1966 — average wages have grown more slowly than would be predicted based on productivity and inflation growth,” The New York Times reported. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. Deming Insitute Grant and Visiting CEOs in California.

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