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3 Marketing Strategies to Direct your Food Business towards Success

Strategy Driven

Restaurant marketing trends are continuously changing the digital works, and staying updated often seems a challenge. This saying holds good, especially when you’re keeping up with day-to-day restaurant management. Restaurant marketing strategies are complicated and ever-changing. The Verdict.

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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Because the top-down pushes imposed changes from the outside, front-line people went along, but they didn't own or internalize them. For me the lesson is this: Companies should complement a top-down push with as much bottom-up pull as possible to sustain momentum and avoid regression back to previous, inferior levels of performance.

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Harness the Power of Feedback Loops for Better Strategy Design and Delivery - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM BRIGHTLINE

Harvard Business Review

As strategies move from design to implementation inside the company, outside forces are continually changing: New competitors emerge, the economic and regulatory pictures shift, and customers have new demands. Deliver a Strategy That Works by Managing Culture and Communication. Reference points change.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

My analysis: Productivity software does no good unless one commits to change, alters behavioral traits and commits to time management. Many managers have poor people skills, as well as poor verbal-written communications skills. My analysis: Managing data and managing doctors (which is tough to do) are not the same thing.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

In early April, following the news of faulty ignition switches and recall of more than 6 million cars, GM CEO Mary Barra announced a “Speak Up for Safety” program. “GM This is “not because people screw up, but because of the immense complexity of what we do,” she told The Washington Post.