Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 24, 2017

I’ve spoken with Jim Sinegal, Costco’s co-founder and CEO from 1983 to 2011, and interacted with Ryan Watkins, a young Costco warehouse manager across the country in Oregon. In this culture, most people feel controlled by one of more of the following: autocratic leaders, micro-management, too many rules and/or bureaucracy.

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Competitive Advantage Ryan Bottom-up Customer Loyalty 309

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Bi-plane - Do you travel for business? Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Connect , Connecting , Listening , Networking , Part Two , Questions , Seeding { 4 comments… read them below or add one } Ryan Malone 12.17.10 &# Huge leather work glove – What do you do? Where do you work? What is it like to work there? Laura 12.17.10

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Follow-up Licensing Ryan Learning-by-Doing 225

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2018

We’ve heard it so many times that when we started tracking why employees leave Facebook, all bets were on managers. But our engagement survey results told a different story: When we wanted to keep people and they left anyway, it wasn’t because of their manager…at least not in the way we expected.

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Career Ryan Learning-by-Doing Project 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Managers can use this knowledge to improve the effectiveness of a process or system inside their organizations. Just as an architect thinks carefully about how to best design environments and physical spaces to avoid inefficiencies, managers can adopt choice architecture. We commonly think of leaders as managers.

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Norton Operations Ryan Airlines 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

And unlike other strikes and stoppages, it received broad condemnation, with even union-busters like Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and VP candidate Paul Ryan calling for the speedy return of the "real refs." When teachers or factory workers go on strike, they're hoping to remind management of the value of their expertise.

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Forrester Banking Ryan Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

I talked with Ryan Buell , an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, who studies the intersection of operations and customer behavior. After you enter your preferred travel details and click submit, you see the different websites that it’s searching and a running tally of the best rates found so far.

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