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the ceo magazine, time management

If All Productivity Improvements Must Come from Technology, What Are Managers For?

Management

Edward G. Brown, Founder, Cohen Brown Management Group “The Employee of the Month Has a Battery” Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2014 CEOs and investors are right to worry when they see productivity gains from the digital revolution tailing off.  But many seem to have a quaint faith that salvation comes from one source only, the […]

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the ceo magazine, leadership

Does Your Company Need a Sterile Cockpit?

Leadership, Self Governance

Airline captains don’t have an “open door policy, and there’s a good reason for that. Aside from the obvious terrorist and crazy passenger threats, airline pilots realize they face another adversary: treacherous interruptions. In 1974 an Eastern Airlines flight carrying seventy-eight passengers and four crew members crashed in dense fog during an instrument approach into

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