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Creating a Successful Fleet Operation Means Investing in Employees

Strategy Driven

Coconino County has enhanced its Public Works fleet operations by focusing on employee development and establishing new business practices. Paradoxically, the County’s approach to improve operations in the Fleet Services Division has focused on developing employees and improving work processes. Staffing Challenges and Planned Actions.

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Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Another urged executives to “continue to educate themselves commercially, financially, and operationally.”. Some argued that merely keeping pace with industry and market changes is inadequate; an executive must anticipate change. The costs of not doing so—not continuously changing and evolving—are likely to be high.

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To Make Better Decisions, Combine Datasets

Harvard Business Review

Firms have been developing models that predict how their customers will behave for years. Indeed, as I argued in Harvard Business Review , complex systems with their continually changing interrelationships often defy understanding by using conventional means. Decision making Information & technology Strategy'

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

“The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” ” Second, Keller says that for years it was considered bad for your career if information filtered up to the highest ranks. It’s not my job.”

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

Strategy Driven

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. This negatively impacts our society, which continually seeks button-pushing answers for life’s complex problems without paying enough dues toward a truly successful life.

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