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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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Why Your Employees Count as Much as Your Clients

Strategy Driven

Job satisfaction and productivity is directly related to relationships with superiors. Even if an employee likes the company, a negative relationship with a manager will impact the quality of the employee’s work life ultimately leading to a loss in productivity or complete loss of the employee. This will affect morale and productivity.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. You won’t have a lot of money.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

As growth became a competitive imperative, business leaders began seeing the firm as a system of investment rather than a system of production. At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated.

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Some Companies Are Banning Email and Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

So, he took steps to eliminate what he believed were negative effects on company productivity. He’d stopped using internal email nearly five years earlier because he found it hampered his productivity. He’s a middle-aged former minister of finance for France and a former professor at Harvard Business School.

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Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce, and World

Harvard Business Review

Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions. Nigeria, in particular (with a population projected to exceed that of the USA by 2050 ), will increase its workforce threefold in the next 50 years. higher productivity rates and 1.5%

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). “Now, access to tools, capital, and other supports [make] manufacturable products like the [ Oru ] collapsible kayak possible.”