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Strategy, Culture, Knowledge Management, Firm Performance: How Are They Linked?

Strategy Driven

Executives that employ corporate strategy can propel knowledge sharing in the company to generate more innovative ideas and solutions for new and demanding issues that come up constantly in our hypercompetitive economic environment.

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U.S. Manufacturers Are Hurting Themselves by the Way They Hire

Harvard Business Review

Given the hypercompetitive nature of global manufacturing, it wouldn't take much to kill this momentum and put the U.S. Companies that learn to hire and partner with an engaged, savvy workforce will ensure a viable American manufacturing sector and prepare the way for long-term growth. back to where it was a couple of years ago.

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Seven Problems a Recovery Won't Fix

Harvard Business Review

That's not just grossly unfair in common sense terms, it's a recipe for a society coming apart at the seams. Perhaps they don't care not just because the work they do feels pointless, but because, in human terms, it mostly is. But can you blame them? Dehumanization. If that sounds simple, it's anything but.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

One of my CFOs once told me that the return on new capital investment is long term and the success rate has a high variance, while the return on “maintenance capital investments” required to keep existing production facilities running is short term and has a low variance.