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4 Signs Your Business Needs a Storage Service

Strategy Driven

Such incidents are common in the businesses that deal with mechanical tools that include, drill machines, hammers, wedges, saws, glass, and other sharp objects. Especially, small or medium business needs to operate efficiently by making 100 percent use of every inch of their working place.

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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.” The most basic mix-up is between “objective,” “strategy,” and “action.” ” This is an objective, rather than a strategy. Busá Photography/Getty Images.

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Make the Internet of Things More Human-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

trillion market by 2020 — lay in its ability to operate with little or no “human intervention.” The initial vision involved embedding sensors and actuators in physical objects like UPS packages and factory machinery to sense the environment, transmit “huge volumes of data,” and facilitate new kinds of automation.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. Pick an Apt Objective. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. As the U.S.

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A Guide to Being Compassionate During Layoffs

Harvard Business Review

Far too often, leaders who are closing or shrinking an operation take the old tough guy approach. If the operation being closed or downsized is large or historically important to the company, the CEO should make at least one visit. Who stays and who goes should be decided on an objective basis. Be visible and personal.

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Motivating People Starts with Having the Right Attitude

Harvard Business Review

Seeing compensation as the primary or only tool we can use to motivate high performance is like trying to build a house with only a hammer. As an example, I recently coached a leader who’s responsible for a global organization’s operations in an Eastern European country.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Further second- and third-order interactions occur downstream.