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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013. For the sake of speed, they assemble the “usual suspects” or the department’s “high potentials”.

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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The Brief and Fascinating History of What You’re Wearing and Where It Gets Made

Harvard Business Review

Then came ill-advised decisions — like making a flip phone when market research showed that no one wanted flip phones — and an accretion of layers of management that operated by consensus. He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I They said, ''This kid is a fad.

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

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. The Big Picture.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.