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The Future of Global Competition – Responding to the challenges of global markets
The challenges of today's global marketplace are forcing companies to look at doing things differently in order to get that extra edge over their competition.According to Makino, a global provider of advanced machining technology, companies doing things the same way...
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The Power of Quality Improvement Process
November 2005. Winter is just around the corner here in Western Michigan. The leaves are literally raining off the trees. Just this morning at breakfast as I looked into the woods and I could see a steady stream of golden brown, red and yellow leaves heading towards...
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The Top 10 Marketing Mistakes To Avoid
"The True Function of Any Successful Business is to Sell People Precisely What They Want To Buy" -Bob Serling I suppose the above seems rather obvious. After all, no customers, no business, right? But if the failure rate of businesses today is any indication,...
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The Top 7 Myths That Make Meetings Miserable
You can hold effective meetings and become a more successful leader if you avoid these seven monsters. Here's how. Myth 1: Executives belong in meetings.Although the demands of business cause executives to attend more meetings than other professionals, executives...
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20 Traits and Behaviors of Highly Successful People
Let's look at 20 of the most common traits and behaviors shared by the world's most successful people. You can then try to emulate these to try and encourage that correlation to work for you… 1. Optimism: We've already discussed why this is important and it's very...
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TEAMS and Team Building Make Great Organizations!
I do A LOT of team building in organizations and one thing I’ve noticed is when I mention “team-building” in almost any office or company people get long faces, groan, and maybe even some good old-fashioned heckling. People avoid voluntary team building seminars and...
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