Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 10, 2013

Death and Taxes, 2014. Death and Taxes, 2014. Instead of measuring the call center on calls answered per minute, he insisted that the operators be trained and rewarded to take their time and actually be human, to connect and make a difference instead of merely processing the incoming. The sophisticates. Colors or numbers?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Since 1994, Dow has invested nearly $2 billion in improving resource efficiency and has saved $9.8

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

In 2014 Jess Jacobs, a director in an innovation lab, started blogging about her experience as she received treatment for two rare diseases. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt. So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

If your company offers internal finance training, take advantage of it. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. But when he first arrived at Chicago-based TransUnion in 2014, a private equity group owned it.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

How could a well-trained crew flying a modern airliner so abruptly lose control of their aircraft during a routine flight? In fact, they are the most prevalent cause of fatalities in commercial aviation today, accounting for 43% of fatalities in 37 separate incidents between 2010 and 2014. Automation on the Flight Deck.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

If businesses leverage it from the back office forward, focusing mainly on increasing efficiency and optimizing internal processes, then our use of technology will result in the displacement of labor. Leverage technology from front to back. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2016

In the spring of 2014, we proposed a radical approach: offer anyone on staff – over 2,500 individuals, many of them union members – the chance to shape the library through strategic conversations with senior leaders. And finally, they recommended modular training sessions for staff on providing those services.

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MishTalk

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, driverless truck convoys will be safer and more fuel efficient than human-driven trucks. " The fuel savings witnessed by trucks in a platoon has a significant impact on the operating profits of the operator, not to mention the environmental impact of reduced CO2 and emissions.” It now seems very likely, if not a given.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In 2014, the U.S. On July 30, 2014, exactly 13 months after retiring as P&G’s Chairman and CEO, McDonald was sworn in as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. In my first national press conference, in September 2014, I gave out my cell phone number and my email address, and so I get emails and calls from veterans every day.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Particularly in the UK, which relies heavily upon locum physicians, concerns about their quality of care have grown as demand for temporary physician coverage has outstripped the supply of qualified locum candidates, leading, at times, to locum tenens being hired to cover medical specialties they’re not trained in.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Businesses invest a great deal of time and money in interventions that claim to increase workers’ productivity through on-the-job training, new protocols, advice from consultants, and so on. Several aspects of the firm’s operations allowed us to credibly isolate the effect of pollution on productivity.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

While PwC is a global brand in the professional services industry, each member firm in various locations around the world are locally owned and operated and subject to the laws of their geographic jurisdictions (which makes sense, because some countries require this of accounting firms). Public Sector Practice. Internal Firm Services (IFS).

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates. ” IT companies in India and the U.S.

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