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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. tool knife from the rig on my body armor and let the pristinely sharp blade slice effortlessly through the tape and label—while being ever so careful to avoid harming whatever wonders lay inside. I drew my standard-issue Gerber?tool

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Case Study: Is It Ever OK to Break a Promise?

Harvard Business Review

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. He still talks about one senior manager—a man he’d spent years teaching the business to—who left a while back after taking an executive education program and being wooed away by one of our competitors. Date: May 12, 2013 21:37.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management? Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. On the front pages of major U.S.