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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Objective analysis of how the organization has operated to date. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Utilization of industry consultants or technical specialists.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

To correct for the measurement inversion other methods, like applied information economics, introduce the ‘value of information analysis’ step in the process so that metrics focus on high-value measures. Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Bad managers will fall by the wayside.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. I recommend that team building training be conducted as part of a company Strategic Plan, with top management participating. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Management – Introduction. Periodically, the material is reviewed.

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Like It or Not, “Smart Drugs” Are Coming to the Office

Harvard Business Review

You’ve managed the same team for the past five years — then one day you find out that your most successful employee uses cognitive-enhancing drugs on the job. Meanwhile, the world of management remains stunningly silent. billion in 2015. This scenario may not be hypothetical for long. The Big Questions.

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Theranos and the Dark Side of Storytelling

Harvard Business Review

Following a long stretch of fawning coverage from business and technology journalists, The Wall Street Journal reported in October 2015 that the company’s flagship blood-testing technology was a near-total failure. Scientists understand that storytelling dials up emotion and dials back rationality, clouding objective analysis.

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Is That Chart Saying What You Think It’s Saying?

Harvard Business Review

For more on data ethics, go here.). But Takata’s example is one of the many clear signs that managers who hone their visualization skills may increasingly find themselves in a position to change emphasis in a chart, leave out data, or add some data. — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) December 29, 2015.

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