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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing

Organizational Talent Consulting

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Manufacturing organizations like General Motors report spending more on healthcare than they do on raw materials for their products. One emotion that often defines work is stress. Stress is an emotional contagion. Organizational Talent Consulting.

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12 Best Lessons Learned From 2016

Chad Barr

I would like to share my 12 best lessons learned from 2016 with you: Continued commitment to the creation of unique intellectual property. As this growth continues, more individuals and organizations are in need of our products, services and our transformational impact. Remove the toxicity in my life. Thinking and down time.

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African Consumer Sentiment 2016: The Promise of New Markets

BCG

Focus Tuesday, June 21, 2016. A wide range of products and services have already found enthusiastic buyers. And certain products—like mobile phones—are a greater priority than food in some regions. But nothing could be further from the truth. If projections hold, Africa will have over 1.1

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Industrial Production Growing, Manufacturing Inching Along

MishTalk

The Fed G17 report shows Industrial Production is up 0.4% Mining is once again the highlight of an otherwise soft industrial production report. Mining is once again the highlight of an otherwise soft industrial production report. percent for a third straight sharp increase, mining pulled industrial production up 0.4

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Global Payments 2016: Competing in Open Seas

BCG

Report Monday, September 26, 2016. At the top of the collective agenda in 2016 is the digitization of payments, which has come with more than its share of hype. This adaptation will involve deploying an agile approach to product development and overhauling organizational structures to reduce decision layers.

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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

This is almost 10% higher than in 2016. Their plan for the next couple of years is to prevent quality failures with bold investments by “building a database of previous failure cases and production traceability management.” Due to poor project performance, $99 million is wasted for every $1 billion invested.

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Beyond Bricks and Mortar: The Open Banking Revolution

Tom Spencer

Open banking enables these third party service providers to develop new payment services and other financial products. The concept of open banking gained renewed traction with the implementation of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) in the European Union in 2016, enhancing the rules put in place by the initial PSD in 2007.

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