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The Awarness to Lead

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If you answer these questions before you write something off as an error, you can create something truly innovative. If you study really successful companies, take Google and Zappos, they teach staff knowledge of company policies and systems but fully expect staff to come with their own knowledge and ability to solve problems.

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The Growing Power of Women in Business

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Women are intuitively great “system-thinkers.” In other words, rather than just look at the piece of the puzzle you’re responsible for and executing on that, which men tend to be very good at, women are adept at looking more holistically at the entire puzzle or system and seeing how the various pieces go together.

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The USPS Lesson

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The postal situation is not unique and what it highlights is how the wrong type of organizational culture can kill even a giant like the postal system. You create an environment for innovative solutions, employee growth and increased morale. Eliminating more positions and reducing service is not going to make a difference.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

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A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston.

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Lessons from J.C. Penney

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They have a three tags system: red for everyday low prices, white for monthly value and a blue tag for the cheapest price. Strategy is a tricky part of business, but it’s also a chance to innovate in ways that your competition isn’t aware of. Simplify, Simplify Simplify. This is the best part of the strategy, even though the J.C.

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HP Headed to Hotel California?

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It isn’t entirely fair to heap all of the blame onto the CEO’s; there was another broken system at play, the Board of Directors. that focuses on customers and innovation. If we take past behavior as the best predictor of risk, HP’s new CEO seems pretty risky. HP Has Historically Had an Ineffective Board.

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