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Reasons Outsourcing Your Production is a Good Idea

Strategy Driven

In addition to saving time and money for your business, outsourcing also helps reduce the stress of managing fulfillment operations in-house. It can help give you more control over your product, lower costs, and time-to-market, to name a few. Instead, they can focus on more critical tasks to help your organization grow.

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Team Chemistry Is the New Holy Grail of Performance Analytics

Harvard Business Review

As an 11-time champion, says Jackson, he was always looking for “what creates the bonds” between players that can meaningfully separate them from their competition. George Karl, the 7th coach in NBA history to reach 1000 wins, similarly stressed the need for serious coaches and general managers to quantify “teamness.”

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

Today’s organizational strategies call for small, manageable units focused solely on specific technologies, end markets, or geographical areas. Additionally, impractical and quickly outmoded high level P&L management can be supplanted by performance metrics that stress driving value for every critical part of the enterprise.

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

Harvard Business Review

About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. When I feel stressed, I will express sincere appreciation for the work of at least one person. So, take the initiative.

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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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