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How a Board Search Firm Can Support Organizations

N2Growth Blog

Boardrooms today face new, evolving challenges that are increasingly complex to navigate, and they are under immense pressure and scrutiny to operate at maximum effectiveness. Here’s how a global executive search firm can ultimately allow a Board to operate at its peak performance and empower it to realize its most ambitious goals.

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The Process is as Important as the Product: 7 Tips to Manage Both

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SNET had been thrown into uncharted waters as Connecticut was the first state to open its telecommunications markets to competition, more than a year and a half before the United States Congress passed the federal Telecommunications Act (1996).

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Practicing Patience and Faith

Persuasive Powerhouse

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. It comes from the work my clients do. They are amazing.

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. I don’t try to mislead others or deliberately cause injury to someone for my gain, so I simply assumed everyone else would operate that way in business. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight.

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Use Big Data to Find New Micromarkets

Harvard Business Review

Another might be made up of markets with similar operating cost structures. One telecommunications company we spoke with continually tested plays on different customer segments to determine which offers at which price points with which types of services were most successful in various markets.

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