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How to Boost Your Profits

Strategy Driven

There are over 28 million small businesses nationwide, and a further 22 million that are solely operated. Failing to plan. For your business to be a success, you need to make both short and long-term plans. Review operational procedures. There will always be aspects of your operational functions that can be improved upon.

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How to Boost Your Profits

Strategy Driven

There are over 28 million small businesses nationwide, and a further 22 million that are solely operated. Failing to plan. For your business to be a success, you need to make both short and long-term plans. Review operational procedures. There will always be aspects of your operational functions that can be improved upon.

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Hierarchy and Network: Two Structures, One Organization

Harvard Business Review

Almost all companies organize people in a hierarchy, and then run well known managerial processes (planning, budgeting, staffing, measuring, etc) with it. It strives to eliminate anomaly, standardize processes, solve short-term problems, and achieve stopwatch efficiency within its current mode of operating.

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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. But the past is merely a prologue. Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership.

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