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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. Operational and financial improvements are rapid, dramatic, and lasting. You build your way up to those levels.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business

Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. ” He continued, “let’s not launch Product X version 2 and instead focus all our efforts on Product Y.”

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business

” “Craft brand identities that position products and companies to capture #1 category positions. Communicate across logos, taglines, ads, marketing, trademarks, media, trade shows, and conferences.” Combine big-picture thinking with rigorous execution.” ” Résumé Story. Australia, New Zealand.

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