Leading Your Business Forward: Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success

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Traveling—whether across country or across the city—is much easier today than it was a mere decade ago.

Back then, in the “olden days,” if you were going somewhere previously unknown to you, you had to either call ahead to get elaborate directions from someone at your destination or you had to consult a map and hope you could remember every turn, especially if you didn’t have a navigator with you in the car. Even if you used both methods, the likelihood was high that you would make some wrong turns along the way.

Since the mid- to late 2000s, when global positioning systems (GPSs) became commercially feasible and affordable, taking a trip has become much more efficient. Plug in the portable unit, enter into the GPS where ...