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Leadership actions that are not an option for leaders.

Strategy Driven

Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. If the leader is slack, lacks work ethic, or is slow to decide, they have given tacit permission to their team to be and do the same. Start by rating yourself 1-10 on the qualities I have listed here.

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To bid or not to bid? That is the question.

Strategy Driven

They’ve refined the buying process so far that they have precluded the words ‘quality’ and ‘value’ from the buying process AND they have taken the words productivity, ease of use, and morale out of the delivery process. Especially as it relates to their actual experience and their projected needs.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach. The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015.

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Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

High-quality, carefully-edited content is great for pulling in an audience. One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects. As they lower their safeguards to attract more users, platishers enter a legal and ethical gray area.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. Often its members join in a professional organization, local, state, or national, which enunciates standards and ethics of professional performance sometimes with the powers of enforcement.”

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The Big Picture of Business: Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques. Professionals Who Go the Distance.

Strategy Driven

Stated, refined strategies for the winery to remain in business, producing a quality product and maintaining clientele appreciation. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Appreciation for value becomes a quality of life ingredient. You should.

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

Strategy Driven

We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities.

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