Inc. Magazine – September 2019

INC. BRANDED CONTENT / HR

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time and energy on non-

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driving growth,” he says.

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strategic matters is no

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not have these distractions

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more attention to growing

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observation about the

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the bureaucracy state-by-state.

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boom! We’re ready to go”