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How to Boost Your Profits

Strategy Driven

You need to identify your goals and define objectives that will help you reach them, from the next few months through to the following years. Your goals will shape every business decision you make and give you direction. Kaizen is a valuable mindset to adopt and can dramatically reduce waste and improve a business’s profitability.

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How to Boost Your Profits

Strategy Driven

You need to identify your goals and define objectives that will help you reach them, from the next few months through to the following years. Your goals will shape every business decision you make and give you direction. Kaizen is a valuable mindset to adopt and can dramatically reduce waste and improve a business’s profitability.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

The Japanese employees, while already fluent with Japanese concepts such as kaizen (improvement) and omotenashi (hospitality), struggled to become proficient in English. If you feel a sense of belonging with the larger organization, you’re more likely to share its values and goals. Aspiring to a global career.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. The goal here is not UX for the sake of UX, but UX as a medium and platform for value creation and capture.

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Being the World's Largest Ad Agency Might Not Be Something to Brag About

Harvard Business Review

This week''s merger announcement between Omnicom and Publicis, two ad and marketing agencies with a combined 2012 revenue of $23 billion, involved glasses of champagne. But in order to let them pursue their goals, it has to enable individual freedom and fairness of opportunity, which are among society''s important moral "goods."

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Silver Bullets Won't Fix Your Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

Offer incentive compensation and recognition programs that encourage salespeople to work hard in pursuit of personal goals that align with company goals. Set sales force goals that are challenging, fair, and well-understood by the sales force. That's where a clear head and a purposeful prioritization process come in handy.

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