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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

.  In the latest installment to his Little Big Things video series Tom Peters declares war on these systems and encourages managers to make it easy for all members of an organization to identify problems with an organization's systems and provide bottom-up feedback for improving the way the company operates.

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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Make Civility the Norm on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

In 2011 half said they were treated badly at least once a week — up from a quarter in 1998. If your employees aren’t behaving well, and you’ve already gone through the trouble of hammering home the organization’s civility message, ask yourself, “Have I also equipped them to succeed?”

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. Failure was worth every cent.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. .’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking. Because innovation requires it.

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Green Police

Chris Brady

Government is like a sledge hammer. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious. However, when you are a sledgehammer, every problem tends to look like a cinder block in need of smashing. What a surprise, with former Monsanto executive Vilsek as the Secretary of Agriculture.