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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

Recently economists have connected what is now labeled Quiet Quitting to a fall in US labor productivity output. Like me, you may have first learned about this company from their marketing campaign: "We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better.". BASF at a glance. Broderson, M.,

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Launching Your Online Business: Guide for First-Time Entrepreneurs

Business Consulting Agency

In today’s digital era, the prospect of establishing an online business offers unparalleled opportunities for budding entrepreneurs to bring their innovative products and services to a global market. Procuring or Creating Your Products The procurement strategy for your products defines your business’s operational foundation.

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Matrix Structures and Virtual Collaboration (Kates and Erickson, Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams, 2008)

Kates Kesler

Chapter in The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams, 2008. They need to serve multiple products, markets, and geographies and, if they are to reap the rewards of growth and scale, they need to integrate laterally and find synergies among all the various dimensions of the business. Virtual Collaboration in a Matrix Organization.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance: Five Ways to Activate a Global Operating Model

Kates Kesler

Bridging Organization Design and Performance is a handbook for leaders looking to enhance the success of their organizations and themselves. Companies that compete globally require organizational operating models as robust as their strategies.

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Reinventing the water cooler – and why it matters

Brimstone Consulting

The studies found that cohesion (defined as how connected your work friends are with each other) among employees is one of the most significant factors in productivity and job satisfaction.

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Ten Principles for an Employee Bill of Rights

Rick Conlow

Most companies have statements of ethics or teamwork in their employee handbooks. They increase poor morale, productivity, innovation, and customer service. 7 Keys to Unleash Employee Productivity, Motivation, and Engagement. European countries do a better job. Unions are on the decline. 7 Reasons that Define the Problem.

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management by Scott Berkun Making Things Happen is a practical handbook for project managers written in an easy-to-read and witty manner. The “productive laziness” is built on the Pareto principle that states that in many cases, 80% of the consequences come from 20% of the causes.