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 The European textile and clothing industry is at a crucial phase of development – it faces unprecedented competition from abroad, plus rising production costs. Traditionally an industry of very small, specialised companies, new production approaches are needed to speed up the supply chain. Exciting new technologies promise unexpected textile applications, but SMEs need encouragement to innovate. |
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The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
by Ori Brafman, Rod Beckstrom
 If you cut off a spider’s leg, it’s crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish’s leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish.
What’s the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have in common with the abolitionist and women’s rights movements? What fundamental choice put General Motors and Toyota on vastly different paths? How could winning a Supreme Court case be the biggest mistake MGM could have made? |
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 While clients are buying skills, image does make a difference, and appropriateness is the key.
Is relaxing your organisation's dress code simply a favor to staff, or is there a strategic benefit? Geoffrey Colvin, writing in Fortune magazine, says recruits from business schools "want to be valued for what they can do, and they'd like some stock. Offer them that, and they'll wear sarongs and babushkas if you make them."
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In the new knowledge-driven economy, people have become the most precious and underutilized resource. They are the repository of knowledge and they are central to any company's competitive advantage. Well coached, and highly motivated people are critical to the development and execution of strategy and of any other way of business innovation. The business life and the managerial work becomes increasingly a leadership task. Leadership is the primary force behind successful change. Leaders empower employees to act on the vision. They execute through inspiration and develop implementation capacity networks through a complex web of aligned relationships. This site, sponsored by MACORIG ASSOCIATES, is devoted to the exploration of the business life and the various tools we can use to improve our business performance going through business innovation, strategy, business models, strategic marketing, management consulting, leader envisioning, smart tools, business lifestyle, methodologies and processes... A lot of cases, links, documents, articles, books and lifestyle tips are presented and suggested from the most authoritative sources.
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