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Reasons Outsourcing Your Production is a Good Idea

Strategy Driven

Outsourcing your shipping operations also allows you to take advantage of economies of scale. In addition to saving time and money for your business, outsourcing also helps reduce the stress of managing fulfillment operations in-house. By outsourcing, you can free up valuable office and warehouse space.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. Tens of thousands of agile teams have operated for decades without much awareness — let alone active support — from CEOs. Tetra Images/Getty Images.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. Decision making in today’s organizations often no longer has the necessary responsiveness, detaching them from both their customer base and market realities.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. The best PMs know how to push hard on the right priorities, with urgency, but without conveying a sense of panic or stress.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Among peacocks, large tails so charm the peahens that the male tail has grown to the point where the males are stressed by the nutritional burdens of growing and carrying the stupendous appendage, and are more subject to predation because of its weight. First, by stressing that the point is innovation.

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