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Clive Shearer
Management
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By Clive Shearer
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February 14, 2001

Chronic problems can cripple companies

By CLIVE SHEARER
Special to the Journal

After nearly 40 years of observing hundreds of businesses, I have observed that their problems tend to distribute into two categories: 30 percent of problems are transitory in nature and 70 percent of problems are chronic.

And Shearer’s 30-70 model shows that both of these categories are themselves distributed in the same proportion.


 
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