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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

Working within the intersection between these disciplines, Jack emphasizes leadership development, inter-cultural business communication, employee engagement, and customer focus. This is not a service offering; this is a laundry list of skills. What is his sweet spot? What is he really good at?

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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. To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. The scrappy functionality of the space culturally constrained their evolution from start-up to mature business.