The Frontline CEO: Turn Employees into Decision Makers Who Innovate Solutions, Win Customers, and Boost Profits

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CREATE A LEARNING ORGANIZATION

One of the beautiful characteristics of progress is that it accelerates. Increasingly, we are able to connect with and learn from more people who have access to a much greater cache of ideas than ever before. Those ideas can then inspire the next generation of thinkers. Albert Einstein didn’t develop his theory of relativity in a vacuum. He drew on the work of earlier physicists, mathematicians like Marcel Grossmann and Tullio Levi-Civita, and even the science fiction author Felix Eberty, who wrote about traveling faster than light, and used it to move our understanding of the world forward.

The same process plays out in every business every single day. In fact, this process is the most important part of any ...