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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Businesses need leaders able to take action amid economic uncertainty and operate effectively in a digital workplace with a diverse workforce. Studies reveal that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. Productivity, wages, and intrinsic motivations. Journal of Leadership Studies , 7(3), 18-40.

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Mergers May Be Profitable, but Are They Good for the Economy?

Harvard Business

In recent research, we provide new evidence that while mergers may raise profits, many fail to deliver efficiency gains that could increase overall prosperity. manufacturing plants from 1997 through 2007, an important and diverse sector of the U.S. manufacturing plants from 1997 through 2007, an important and diverse sector of the U.S.

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Lettuce Bot - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

MishTalk

On the Salinas Valley farm, entrepreneurs with Mountain View-based startup Blue River Technology are trying to show that the Lettuce Bot can not only replace two dozen workers, but also improve production. food system - particularly fruit and vegetable production - depends on immigrants more than any other sector of the U.S.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

They seized this opportunity to establish a firm that would help firms gain clarity about their business models, products, and clients and then advise them by creating long term strategies. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects.

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The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose

Harvard Business

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Most companies have articulated their purpose — the reason they exist. Consider Nokia.

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America's First Marijuana Stores Open in Colorado; Record Opium Crop in Afghanistan; Six Beneficiaries of "War on Drugs"

MishTalk

The new data surpasses the previous record set in 2007, when 477,000 acres were cultivated, according to the UN drug watchdog. With profits from opium cultivation nearing $1 billion, or 4 percent of gross domestic product, insurgency groups like the Taliban will only benefit from the cash crop.

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