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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

This results in missed opportunities for new products, process improvements, or creative solutions to challenges. Poor Leadership: Many leaders at the top come from a finance background and this inhibits their focus on people. Others just do not care. They value power, money, and influence over people and purpose.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

firms took offshoring a step further and began contracting design and product development activities overseas around the turn of the millennium when China joined the World Trade Organization and Asian producers started investing in major capacity improvements. That pattern has continued. Invest in hardware startups and scale-ups.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. Companies would like to see process improvements and better infrastructure at the border to reduce costs to import. Multinationals are heavily pushing for either minor tweaking to the agreement or a modernization of NAFTA.