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Creating a Successful Fleet Operation Means Investing in Employees

Strategy Driven

The continuous challenges of recruitment, onboarding, and retaining mechanics led the Public Works leadership to reevaluate their approach to staffing. These challenges created the perfect opportunity to re-envision the careers of Coconino County mechanics. The process started by reevaluating the role of mechanics.

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7 Ways we can Stretch Ourselves as Leaders

Ron Edmondson

A rapidly changing work culture takes creative, innovative and adaptable leaders. Leaders must learn to stretch ourselves as the demands upon us continually change. It’s mandatory just to keep up with the pace of change. How can a leader keep up with the pace of change? It’s not an option these days.

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To Make Better Decisions, Combine Datasets

Harvard Business Review

A complicated system is somewhat like a complicated recipe. In a complex system, however, elements can potentially interact in different ways each time because they are interdependent. In a complex system, however, elements can potentially interact in different ways each time because they are interdependent.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Do employees feel that their boss honors their career aspirations, building needed skills that serve their organization now and in the future? Joel Garfinkle , from Career Advancement Blog , says “ Improve Your Perception: A reputation that took decades to build can be threatened by a single event.

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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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Research Shows Immigrants Help Businesses Grow. Here’s Why.

Harvard Business Review

Hiring immigrants may help you build the organizational muscle of adaptability that will enable your company to be more receptive to, and act upon, the continual change that is required of businesses today. Businesses are increasingly finding that rapid adaptation is necessary for success in today’s competitive environment.

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The Big Picture of Business: Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques. Professionals Who Go the Distance.

Strategy Driven

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. ’ The nature of value continually changes and evolves. Commitment to Career. Refining career with several levels of achievement, honors, recognition.