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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. If we look around and see that people are disengaged, that leaders are driving toward tactical outcomes and short-term wins, and that organizations are blindly driving ahead.

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Protect Your Supply Chain During a Pandemic by Using Automation

Strategy Driven

In 2004, there was a severe earthquake and subsequent tsunami that resulted in profound effects to several Asian countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia. COVID-19 has changed virtually everything, including the way electronics manufacturers operate. as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Congestion Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. The Future of Operations. One tactical approach is to make more use of air freight. In the end, the above four are just tactics.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

Armed with this understanding, we will able we will be able to customize our negotiating strategy and tactics to suit each negotiating partner.” Singapore Free Trade agreement was successfully signed in 2004. At a deeper level, it will help us to understand how our American, Chinese, and Malaysian friends think and how they negotiate.

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