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Why Face-to-Face Meetings Make All the Difference

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope. At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical.

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How to Work Confidently with Numbers People

Harvard Business Review

In the era of Big Data, analytics are becoming a competitive necessity for many managers. For some managers, this is intimidating. Besides, hiding is bad for your business and your career, says Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute, and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence.