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In particular, the Galactic Empire strikes me as a quintessential example of how not to effectively run an organization. Let’s take a look at five of the Empire’s biggest mistakes and see how you can avoid them in your own organization.

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by adopting a management style of “failure leads to Force choking,” Vader developed an organizational culture that was destined to be weak. 

(via Forbes)

Captain James T. Kirk is one of the most famous Captains in the history of Starfleet. There’s a good reason for that. He saved the planet Earth several times, stopped the Doomsday Machine, helped negotiate peace with the Klingon Empire, kept the balance of power between the Federation and the Romulan Empire, and even managed to fight Nazis. On his five-year mission commanding the U.S.S. Enterprise, as well as subsequent commands, James T. Kirk was a quintessential leader, who led his crew into the unknown and continued to succeed time and time again.

(via Forbes)

Against the backdrop that the challenges faced by today’s government agencies and private businesses in Nigeria are many and varied, experts have called on public and private sectors’ managers to adopt operations research as an efficient way of tackling these problems.

According to Akingbade Funsho, president and chairman of council of Institute For Operations Research of Nigeria (INFORN) and former dean of Business and Social Sciences, University of Lagos (UNILAG), operations research is a discipline that can be applied in virtually every area of business and government such as in health care, manufacturing, finance, city planning, judiciary, defence, entertainment, among others.

(via INFORMS)