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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7

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Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time. Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. While this might have been the […]

StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Panic of 1907 vs Great Recession of 2008

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This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. That is “good advice in general,” Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told attendees at the Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference, in Washington, D.C earlier this month. “An appreciation of the parallels between recent and historical […]

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The Advisor’s Corner – Am I an At-Risk Leader?

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Question: Is there a way to tell if I’m an ‘at-risk’ leader? StrategyDriven Response: (by Roxi Hewertson, StrategyDriven Principal Contributor) Sure. You can ask yourself the questions below to get a good start and then you can and should regularly ask for direct or anonymous constructive feedback from your direct reports, peers, leader and others. […]

Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

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I get a ton of emails from people seeking insight or asking me to solve their sales dilemmas. Here are a few that may relate to your job, your life, and (most important) your sales thought process right now. Jeffrey, A company that installs gutter guards recently lost my business. I was solicited by their […]