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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1999, rock-and-roll legend Rikk promoted me within six months from sales associate and drum department head at Sam Ash Music to Operations Manager, where I not only led a warehouse crew, but I became the regional trainer on an Oracle-based POS system at the age of 23.

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Scranton Needs 117% Property Tax Hike to Balance Budget

MishTalk

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. It may be viewed by some as kicking the can down the road, but it may prove to the state that we need a (countywide) sales tax.". December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). Big Picture.

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Truly Inane Bloomberg Analysis On Gold

MishTalk

Some of it is so bad you wonder if the authors understand how any markets work, not just the topic of discussion. For example, please consider Gold Euphoria Won’t Last With Yellen’s Rally Fading , a truly remarkable exercise because it took three Bloomberg writers to produce. Sales of American Eagle gold coins by the U.S.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

First, I have helped my CEO clients navigate multiple industry, capital market, and economic crises over the past 25 years. There was the Great Recession in 2008. I’ve also led mass casualty training exercises as a field operations leader and incident commander. They will also tell everyone else, "Hey, sales are down 50%.”.

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To Reduce Complexity in Your Company, Start with Pen and Paper

Harvard Business

And I wasn’t the only one concerned about the company’s direction – in 2008 my colleagues Yves Doz and Mikko Kosonen wrote about the “rollercoaster” that was strategy at Nokia for many years, just before the Apple phenomenon decimated the company’s handset business. Eliminate bureaucracy.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. It requires a broad knowledge and a high-level, big-picture understanding of the company and its markets. My group chose to examine the U.S.

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How Many Versions of a Product Do Consumers Really Want?

Harvard Business

In another exercise, 286 participants were asked to imagine that they owned two cars: one they drove for pleasure on weekends and one they used to commute to work. In 2008 Walmart famously cut 15% of its SKUs, but consumer backlash and reduced sales soon followed, prompting the company to reverse the decision.