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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

The pastor was clearly providing guidance to parishioners on how to help others confront tough problems, but to me it sounded a lot like a leadership strategy. Here in Denver, DaVita Healthcare Partners has demonstrated how this philosophy can pay big dividends in the increasingly scrutinized world of healthcare service providers.

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It’s Time for Companies to Be Strategic About Energy

Harvard Business Review

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

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

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, it requires reimagining the business you are in, empathizing with your target customers and their challenges, and creatively determining how to most effectively solve their problems. Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase.