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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

DaVita operates more than 1,800 dialysis centers and employs over 40,000 people domestically. Regardless of the markets we serve, every one of us knows that our organization’s providence rests squarely on our ability to make the changes demanded by the fast moving target of customer satisfaction.

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The Trade War with China Could Accelerate 3-D Printing in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

Fed up with Beijing’s industrial espionage, market manipulation, and cyber attacks on the West, coupled with its bullying of neighbors and repression at home, the Trump administration announced a series of strong steps to fight back. Companies that move especially quickly could pioneer the next stage of additive manufacturing.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase. The resulting challenges may include new contract-manufacturing relationships, which can be a complicated and disorienting process for the uninitiated. Engineering. and design and user experience.

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CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales

Harvard Business Review

The best CEOs call on their management toolkit to transform sales into a growth engine by focusing on three actions in particular: Crank up the analytics. You also need to push sales organizations to find overlooked pockets of growth in "tapped" markets. In manufacturing, lean both cuts cost and increases effectiveness (e.g.,

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

But it is realistic to envision the growth of high-value-add, high-skill, high-wage manufacturing industries like the microprocessor and computer-networking businesses that Intel and Cisco launched in the 1980s. Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine.