Chapter 12. How Can You Affect the Company’s Margin?

Incorporating the attributes of a profit contributor into your awareness and daily activity will enhance your value to the organization. Dollars saved can strengthen the research and development of new products, create new jobs, and be invested in capital improvements that will enhance the company’s competitive standing, your job security, and the economy.

You can start by understanding the goal in the big-picture sense and then relating it to your own microview of your daily responsibilities. By finding ways of tying the macro (big picture) and micro (your desk) objectives together you will be delivering work that meets company goals in the fullest possible sense. By creating personal goals ...

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