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Learning without training – Books

The Management Centre

And whilst we spend almost all of our time delivering training, we wholeheartedly believe in learning lots of things in lots of different ways. There are thousands of management and leadership books, on all kinds of topics. Books are particularly useful if you want to take your time to digest ideas and to process information.

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Why Reducing Stress Stabilises Your Profits

Tom Spencer

Many times it is a good thing as it forces the business owner to adapt and excel so that his business thrives. Excelling, however, is contingent on the business owner knowing how to harness small doses of stress and manage its effects. While in the UK, the Labour Force Survey found that 11.7

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

In intervention stores, store managers who chose to participate committed to trying out the two changes above, plus five additional changes: Giving a core team of associates a “soft guarantee” or 20 or more hours a week. Managers could also use the app to post additional shifts. per year between 1987 and 2014.

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