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Business Strategy

08 Sep 2009

Unlocking the Potential of Your Frontline Managers

  • By Bill Conerly
  • In Business Strategy

This is a little outside my specialty, but this article from the McKinsey Quarterly strikes me as the most important reading of the day for executives with widely dispersed operations, such as retail, banking, and a variety of other industries.

If you want to implement the ideas here, I can suggest a couple of consultants who can help you.

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