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Jon Acuff Resignation from Dave Ramsey Team Raises Questions

Modern Servant Leader

The actions by Ramsey’s organization and the lack of transparency from either man raise questions in the Christian business, personal finance and leadership communities. Dave has very kindly stressed to me his desire to make that happen as fast as possible.” Friday, September 20, 2013 at 2:27 PM.

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Some Companies Are Banning Email and Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

He’s a middle-aged former minister of finance for France and a former professor at Harvard Business School. Atos’s operating margin increased from 6.5 percent in 2013, earnings per share rose by more than 50 percent, and administrative costs declined from 13 percent to 10 percent. percent to 7.5

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The Cure for Self-Inflicted Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. The key, as with so many things in life, is to get beyond either/or.

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Unify Your Global Company Through a Common Language

Harvard Business Review

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. As difficult, stressful, and crazy as Englishnization has been, it has been the right move for Rakuten.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. There can be a lot of stress in this industry.