Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

More recently, organizations have played with open office plans and Google and Facebook-esque spaces that include beanbag chairs and basketball hoops, all in a ploy to attract and retain younger workers. Creating a productive and innovative working environment requires understanding when, where and how people need to interact.

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Real Estate Absenteeism Construction Open-book 65

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Absentee leadership. Office doors, once open, are closed. Strategic and operational paralysis has become the norm. Innovation is something other companies do. Too many operational changes. So here is your 50 Shades of Corporate Decay ‘watch’ list : 1. Lack of vision. High employee turnover.

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Absenteeism Short-term Long-term Strategic Planning 100

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I first read the book during a break between quarters during my junior year in college. Occasionally, a brother would get voted out of the chapter after a period of excessive absenteeism. After escaping GM, I had an opportunity to attend graduate school at MIT, to study operations management, system dynamics, and other topics.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While all of those certainly play a role, I'm guessing that what Elizabeth Scharpf stumbled across as a critical factor in absenteeism wasn't on your radar. Scharpf told me she recently ran an ad for SHE's first job opening in New York. "If Minimal professional training? Insufficient infrastructure? Emotion Attracts Good People.

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13