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Management Fads That Make a Difference

Source: Jonathan Walters, Governing, Vol. 26 no. 6, March 2013

New management tools are a dime a dozen and often just old strategies with fancy new names. But a few do make measurable differences.

This entry was posted in Management on March 20, 2013 by afscme.

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