leadership
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Leaders Can Lead More People Through Measurement
- December 20, 2017
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Leadership, Management, Measurement
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I sometimes think we have too many middle managers clogging up the business world. I look at companies that do big layoffs of their middle managers and wonder if they were actually that effective to begin with. If a company decides they can do away with 20 percent of their workforce, and the managers are
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The Knife Angel of Shrewsbury, England and Its Message of Peace
- August 16, 2017
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Leadership
England is so much different from the United States in so many ways. For one thing, there aren’t as many guns per capita in England as there are in the United States — there are 6.6 guns owned per 100 Britons versus 112 guns per 100 Americans. No, our big problem is knives. British people
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Kitty Litter in My Parking Spot: Sometimes Leaders Have to Make Hard Choices
- April 19, 2017
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Management
Years ago, when we were still doing warehouse inventory counts by hand, we decided as a company that an inventory would be taken on a weekend so we wouldn’t disrupt service to our customers. This was not an unusual practice, because we were working toward taking inventory in a single day, not our previous 10