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Tactical Execution Best Practice 7 – Target Non-Value-Adding Work to Improve Efficiency

Strategy Driven

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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When a Fancy Degree Scares Employers Away

Harvard Business Review

.” Specific technical skills are getting increasingly easy to measure, so employers focus instead on assessing whether a candidate understands the context in which the business is operating, will be highly motivated on the job, and will get along with the rest of the team.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

Richard Branson, who is also a Planetary Resources investor, is already selling tickets for space-travel on Virgin Galactic’s commercial spacecraft, and he’s competing with the dreams of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin , and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary.

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. This might include banks, advocacy groups, travel agencies, hotel companies and more.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Project Apollo Archive/NASA Johnson Space Center/Flickr. It offers an example of what we call “strategic agility,” or the ability to effectively (and continually) adapt how a firm operates and competes. NASA today is a very different beast from the NASA of the 1960s. Think of the Apollo program in the 1960s.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business Review

The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. Though the implementation of the HITECH Act seemed superficially like a technology project, I gradually came to realize that it was much more than that. We reported the results publicly on a project website. This was a $1.2

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