Imagine picking up a newspaper and reading that the country’s largest petroleum company has petitioned the government to increase the gasoline tax at the…

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Many of us are familiar with the following drill: Corporate pushes a new program, and each department must come up with its own plans…

Your division has been plagued by late launches in its last five new products, and now management has charged you with “getting to the…

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When Marvin T. Runyon took over the US Postal Service in 1992… He announced plans to slash layers of management and an early retirement…