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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. The bottom line is that progress in wage equity has hit a wall. Men at the top are more likely to pull other men up by their collars into the C-suite to join them.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Apple's iPhone Pricing Strategy: Good, Not Great

Harvard Business Review

With yesterday''s iPhone release, Apple changed things up by going to a " good-better-best " pricing strategy on its new devices. Often times a premium product with large market share encounters a new wave of competition that is winning customers via rock bottom prices. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone.

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Apple’s iPhone Pricing Strategy: Good, Not Great

Harvard Business Review

With yesterday’s iPhone release, Apple changed things up by going to a “ good-better-best ” pricing strategy on its new devices. Often times a premium product with large market share encounters a new wave of competition that is winning customers via rock bottom prices. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone.

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

But the strength of small business is dependent on the availability of bank loans, and the evidence suggests this critical funding may be drying up. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. Finance Small/medium business Technology'

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How We Transformed Emergency Care at Our Hospital

Harvard Business Review

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. Individual providers who didn’t measure up had to follow a remediation plan, with incremental improvements that were documented. Speak with one voice.