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Jcpenney's Core Process
Ron Johnson the former CEO of JCPenney had a very short-lived time at JCPenney. Ron Johnson who was formerly praised for his work at Apple was not able to last longer than seventeen months. During his time at JCPenney, he seems to ignore parts of the three core processed of business: People, Strategy, and Operation (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). The next few paragraphs will identify Johnson's failure(s) in these three core processes and make recommendations that would have helped him be more successful.

"Because all work ultimately entails some human interaction, effort, or involvement, Bossidy and Charan believe that the people process id the most important" (Kinicki & Williams, 2013, p.179). The first core process is People. In his own words

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