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BUILD AN A-TEAM: Introduction, Being the Kind of Boss People Love to Work For

Strategy Driven

The Rocket Chemical Company had a small lab and just three people, but they could see a major opportunity in front of them. She is an expert on helping high-growth organizations develop high-growth individuals. LarryEmond,“2ReasonsWhyEmployeeEngagement Programs Fall Short,” Gallup News, August 15, 2007, [link].

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Building Your Brand “Buddy the Elf” Style – Part 1 :: Women on.

Women on Business

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. But let’s assume that Buddy is indeed an elf, developed and created by the North Pole to fill a need…to make toys.

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What they don’t teach in business school, but should…

Strategy Driven

Favor developing general managers. There is a decline in opportunities for executives to develop general management skills to equip them for the most senior general management roles. There is an opportunity for business schools to create programs that support the development of these skills. This is due to two phenomena.

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Just How Important Is Manufacturing?

Harvard Business Review

That is because advanced manufacturing provides an important institutional foundation for learning and developing process skills and capabilities that are increasingly intertwined with core R&D in some of the industries most important to the country's economic future.

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To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think About It

Harvard Business Review

A wonderful New York Times article from 2007 recounted the 20 th annual “Operator’s Challenge” — aka the “Sludge Olympics” — a competition for New York sewage treatment workers. We’d all be served by identifying more ways to develop positive collegial relationships at work.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told. Consider leaving a comment!