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Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments

Martinka Consulting

The headlines about the Texas freeze and energy disaster caught my attention. The bottom line is Texas officials had been warned many times over the last 30 years about their energy infrastructure not being winterproof. And he’s got a handful of leases on which he’s obligated (in a tough office real estate market).

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

Few people are in the habit of looking for a gap in the market or trying to identify an unsatisfied need. This is extremely frustrating for the customer as she has to spend more time and energy explaining her case to multiple departments and wait uncertainly as each one tries to push responsibility on to the other.

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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

Few people are in the habit of looking for a gap in the market or trying to identify an unsatisfied need. This is extremely frustrating for the customer as she has to spend more time and energy explaining her case to multiple departments and wait uncertainly as each one tries to push responsibility on to the other.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

For example, one organization I worked with had no training and were last in their market. With training for multiple process improvement action teams, they won the JD Power Award. Great team leaders creatively renew the energy and focus of this team, this takes reiteration. Pulling It All Together.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

For example, one organization I worked with had no training and were last in their market. With training for multiple process improvement action teams, they won the JD Power Award. Great team leaders creatively renew the energy and focus of this team, this takes reiteration. Pulling It All Together.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. Companies would like to see process improvements and better infrastructure at the border to reduce costs to import.

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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business

The process improves farm productivity and reduces input waste by using analytics to facilitate data-driven farming practices for small-scale farmers. And SunCulture , which sells drip irrigation kits that use solar energy to pump water from any source, has made irrigation affordable.

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