Task your managers to find new ways employees can bring value to the company.
Mr Kann is being taken to task by his own managers as well as his shareholders.
As discussed in the Harvard Business Review, he was charged with the task of convincing 100 senior managers and 55, 000 employees to assist in the transformation.
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Staying overweighted in technology requires a task force of analysts and money managers to help sort out the news.
Clinical trials executives met with factory managers to explain the task's urgency.
One plausible starting point is to bring the original brand literally back to life for the managers charged with the revival task.
Last week Walter Hewlett, whose father co-founded the company, expressed concern that the merger would increase HP's exposure to the shrinking PC market and would distract managers from the more important task of navigating through the recession.
Baxter is Bafana Bafana's eleventh coach in a decade but he said that he will not allow the South African Football Association's (Safa) high turnover of managers to distract him from his immediate task of restoring the country's football reputation.
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If the emerging or minority managers and manager-of-managers are playing games, they too will be taken to task.
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Most managers and leaders have, on a regular basis, the unenviable task of trying to get other people to adopt particular goals.
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Managers can look to services like Odesk and eLance to contract out virtually any task.
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