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How Good Companies Become Market Leaders (Without an Infusion of Capital): Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

After eight years of service, I left and worked at a couple of commercial nuclear power plants and earned a project management certification and a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt, along with my engineering degree. But what I really enjoyed doing was – I’m really kind of that in-between guy.

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Can Employees Really Speak Up Without Retribution?

Harvard Business

Thus not surprisingly, lots of leaders say they want to encourage their employees to speak freely, whether it’s by offering creative new ideas, identifying process improvements, or even calling out unethical behavior. We collected data from employees across a wide array of different industries in Belgium.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

There are three very common shiny objects that derail customer success efforts in the early stage: Process improvements to issue routing, issue classification, and automated responses seem reasonable. Before you hire a data scientist or implement expensive machine learning software, have a face-to-face conversation with 15 customers.

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