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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

Put More Effort Into Effective Delegation It is absolutely accurate to state that intuitive delegation is part and parcel of the role of a leader, but if you can admit to yourself that you often hand out specific kinds of tasks and projects to the same people time and time again and without thinking, then this needs to change.

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Stereotypes Can Force Older Workers Into Retirement

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers conducted an ethnographic study at eight small and medium-sized companies within Denmark’s finance and production sectors, involving 92 interviews with senior staff, managers, union representatives, and HR personnel.

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Delivery Robots Unlikely To Provide Carbon Savings

The Horizons Tracker

We found that the energy and carbon footprints of this automated parcel delivery in suburban areas was similar to that of conventional human driven vehicles. The last mile is traditionally the most expensive leg of the product’s journey, both in financial and environmental terms. Optimizing the last mile.

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5 Why's and a How

CEO Blog

Often the process discovers simple tools that can greatly increase productivity. The biggest innovation that I add to the process is to not only ask the 5 Why''s but to add the How question. EG - in analyzing a shipping line, the 5 why''s might determine that only 1,000 parcels per hour can be shipped per hour.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design. I Think Not.

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Starting a Business for the Post-Pandemic World

Strategy Driven

American Express – The credit card company that originally delivered parcels across the country. You need to innovate immediately. Your good employees are often more productive because by cutting out their commute, they are less tired and more able to focus. Marriot Hotels – Began as a street-side root beer stand.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Principle 7 — Generate High-Velocity Decisions) in the section titled Invention Machine he explains the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 decisions and why understanding the difference is crucial to business growth through invention and innovation.

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