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- Starbucks Lists Stores it Will Close
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Management
- How to Manage Your Team in a Downturn (and Come Out on Top)
- During a downturn, the usual rules of the workplace change dramatically. Here's how to keep your team motivated and productive.
- Recession Survival Strategies
- Has the recession put your organization in a choke hold? Here's how to survive even thrive in the face of budget cuts, ...
- Recession-Friendly Employee Perks
- Worried that you can't afford to give raises and bonuses this year? Here are three ways you can reward employees without breaking the bank.
- Managing Millennials
- Confident, forward-thinking, and 80 million strong, Generation Y will reshape the workplace. Here's how to get the best out of your youngest workers.
- Hiring and Inspiring a Dispersed Team
- Certain managerial traits become more important when work gets done out of your sight. Here's how to get off on the right foot, whether ...
Strategy
- The Competitive Imperative of Learning
- Most managers believe that relentless execution--the efficient, timely production and delivery of offerings--is vital to corporate performance. Execution-as-efficiency is important. But focusing too narrowly ...
- The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
- A brilliant strategy may put you on the competitive map. But only solid execution keeps you there. Unfortunately, most companies struggle with implementation. That's ...
- The Next Revolution in Productivity
- Despite decades of reengineering, large companies still have problems with their business operations. They duplicate processes. They perform hundreds of noncore tasks that should ...
- Patent Sharks
- Technology firms face a serious menace: patent sharks. These predators collect patents through acquisitions in bankruptcy proceedings, licensing agreements, or their own R&D efforts. ...
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Work Life
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- Despite racking up impressive accomplishments, you feel frustrated with your career--convinced you should be achieving more. You may even wish you had chosen a ...
- The Uncompromising Leader
- Managing the tension between performance and people is at the heart of every leader's job. Focus single-mindedly on delivering profits, and you disenchant your ...
- Competing on Resources
- What gives your company a competitive edge? Your strategically valuable resources--the ones enabling your enterprise to perform activities better or more cheaply than rivals. ...
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