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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. If the CEO doesnt play this role, process improvement stays comfortably within functional boundaries. The company was too big for that."

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

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You Can’t Delegate Change Management

Harvard Business Review

The CEO of a large telecommunications firm announced an enterprise-wide cost-reduction and simplification effort as a way of responding to rapidly changing technologies and new competitive threats. Consider this example. The initiative was launched with great fanfare and positioned as key to the company’s long-term success.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well. For example, a Starbucks manager told us that he lets each employee experiment with how they connect to each customer, and a bank manager we worked with said he encourages people to suggest process improvements.

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How Crisis And Uncertainty Can Be A Catalyst For Growth

Chief Executive

On the heels of this expansion, in 2004 courts struck down a central tenet of the 1996 US Telecommunications Act that obligated carriers to provide wholesale network access to competitors like MetTel.

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Why the TSA Screening Revolt is Like Poison Ivy

Harvard Business Review

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