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Give Your Employees a Knife

Lead Change Blog

The word servant (with a hat tip to Robert Greenleaf!) Competitive advantage today requires cutting edge innovation, distinctive service, and lightning fast responsiveness. What are the barriers to responsible freedom in your operation? Employees need guidelines, not unlimited license. Servants acquiesce; partners assert.

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. Click "READ MORE" to see the 44 content marketing agencies and 70 related tips from the experts! 8 Stellar Ones.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. Is the balance right in your organization?

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. No selling of products or services.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines. And perhaps failing to recognize that is whats really at the root of this great crisis. No selling of products or services.

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Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills

Harvard Business Review

This dispersion of practice makes it more likely that a surgeon today may be the only one to perform certain procedures in a given geographic region (particularly outside of large cities) and that innovative ideas, tips, and best practices may arise from outside of the traditional academic “hubs.”

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