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Leadership Inspirations – Communications Excellence | StrategyDriven

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Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) ‘Father of Modern Management’ and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002 Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Bill Ackman Is Just Doing God's Work

Harvard Business Review

Or at least the market''s. Which is more than be said of a lot of other financial-market endeavors. Ackman is no Warren Buffett, who holds on to companies for decades, but he''s not obsessing over day-to-day market moves or quarterly earnings reports, either. But he''s doing God''s work. And it does appear to be useful work.

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Why Individuals No Longer Rule on Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. But the impact of employees’ “network performance” — that is, how much people give to and take from their coworkers — increased from 22% to 49%.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

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The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

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The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. We all "buy" consulting so if coaches just want to transact they just need to market and burnish their brand. Here is my bottom line take.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

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The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree. Accounting.