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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

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Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. MISTAKE #5: Punishing ‘good failures.’ ’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking.

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