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4 Signs Your Business Needs a Storage Service

Strategy Driven

Also, business owners have to carter seasonal demands when they have to hold extra merchandise so that they can meet the market demand. Such incidents are common in the businesses that deal with mechanical tools that include, drill machines, hammers, wedges, saws, glass, and other sharp objects.

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The Long Road to “You’re Hired!”

Harvard Business Review

There are now around 100 manual-intensive workstations in three of Toyota''s Japanese factories, where younger employees learn how to, for example, turn and hammer metal into crankshafts. This, in part, is what''s driving a new Toyota program requiring people – that''s right, actual humans – to build cars by hand.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. The story of the firing spread (as it always does) throughout the company, morale slipped, and the CMO never completely trusted his boss again. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place. That guy’s an idiot.

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The Case Against Competing

Harvard Business Review

An overweening focus on beating the other guy, gal, or outfit is just as bad for your psychological and moral health as it is for your business. But I would go one step further and suggest that avoiding competition is a condition, or more precisely, a frame of mind, that more should aspire to. You don’t learn anything new.

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What investment in your business are you REALLY making?

Strategy Driven

Return on morale. Big companies hammer their entire workforce to make certain that their customer satisfaction scores are high or higher, when they could be (should be) creating an internal training program that begins with the word wow, and progresses upward from there. Many Happy Returns : Return on training. Return on leadership.

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