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Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau

Emerson Consulting Group

So inspired to uncover a solution to this, Henry took himself back to Harvard for a week to engage in an MBA-like “independent study” project, specifically aimed at how to fashion a “recipe” for pencil lead that would transform Thoreau pencils into an efficient product that everyone could use and love.

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When Selling, Ask Questions, Rank Your Prospects … and Listen!

Emerson Consulting Group

These will often heighten your efficiency as to who should be considered a worthwhile prospect to meet with at all, thereby increasing each sales call’s likelihood of success. which transforms business consultants, CEOs, attorneys, finance experts and other business leaders and their companies into published “thought leaders.”

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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

Harvard Business

In a series of studies recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research , people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward. You’re hardly alone.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Commitment to efficient value creation invariably inspires more thoughtful investment in the quality — not quantity — of staff.

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Was Russia's Annexation of Crimea Illegal? Who Has the Right to Decide? Transformation of Mainstream Media

MishTalk

Paul Craig Roberts is a former assistant secretary of the treasury and associate editor of The Wall Street Journal. What has happened in Ukraine is the United States organized and financed a coup. While all Nazi forces took part in massacres and atrocities, the Waffen SS did so with particular efficiency.

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Burger King Flips Obama the Bird; BK, Warren Buffet, Greg Mankiw, Barry Ritholtz, Mish on Corporate Tax Inversion "Fairness"

MishTalk

The Wall Street Journal reports Warren Buffett Enters Tax Fray With Plan to Finance Burger King Deal for Tim Hortons Investor Warren Buffett is helping finance Burger King''s planned takeover of Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain Tim Hortons Inc. Warren Buffet the Hypocrite? Buffett''s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. tax policy.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). Journal of Business Research, 62(7), 673-679. Gregory, B. Harris, S. Armenakis, A. & Shook, C. Manyika, J., Madgavkar, A. & Smit, S.

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