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Guest Post: Begging For Leadership Won’t Get You A Pocket Full of Change

Lead on Purpose

A successful leader who leads by example and keeps his promises will gain the trust and loyalty of his employees. They failed to suggest quality control improvement that is inherent in “Kaizen.” Kaizen is the Japanese philosophy of continuous incremental improvement in life that Toyota has incorporated into its leadership style.

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How to Boost Your Profits

Strategy Driven

The chances are high that they have switched to a more relationship-based model that uses technology to improve their customer experience and loyalty. The Japanese word ‘kaizen’ translates as improvement, and is the name given to a strategy that works on the principle that all employees work together to improve process incrementally.

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Top Trends for Entrepreneurs in 2019

Strategy Driven

Through social media, email newsletters, and in-house blogs, consumer engagement is the key to improved customer loyalty and higher conversion rates. However, one of the most consistently successful is through the use of a Kaizen Burst. Consumer interaction is more important in the business landscape than ever before.

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How to Boost Your Profits

Strategy Driven

The chances are high that they have switched to a more relationship-based model that uses technology to improve their customer experience and loyalty. The Japanese word ‘kaizen’ translates as improvement, and is the name given to a strategy that works on the principle that all employees work together to improve process incrementally.

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How to Give a Robot a Job Review

Harvard Business Review

Effective executives understand the productivity and customer loyalty future depends as much on motivating and managing their machines as inspiring their people. How should smart machines be programmed — or trained — to offer up new insights or kaizen? Are there new networks — Internets of Things?

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business Review

The company lost the trust of its frontline employees, the commitment of its travel agent partners and the loyalty of its passengers, who increasingly switched to other vacation sources. Eventually, feeling it had no other option, the company adopted a low-cost strategy on the outside: last-minute price-cutting.

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