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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Mark Brown: Leaders in the outdoor leadership space are quite familiar with a wilderness ethic and organization called Leave No Trace. Business, particularly manufacturing has embraced the Japanese concepts of Muda and Kaizen , which have been widely adapted across industries as Lean.

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How to Give a Robot a Job Review

Harvard Business Review

As long as customer desires are legal, ethical, and safe, smart machines could be as appropriately responsive as smart humans. How should smart machines be programmed — or trained — to offer up new insights or kaizen? “Why would you treat them differently?” ” asks Tom Mitchell , the E.

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Silver Bullets Won't Fix Your Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

Create and sustain a sales culture of accountability, achievement and ethics. Excellent sales forces continuously improve capability around every sales force effectiveness driver through "kaizen." These sales force effectiveness drivers are the spokes of a wheel that powers the sales force.

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