Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2024

Rather than sticking to a predetermined path, adaptive logistics uses up-to-the-minute data and modern technology to make instant changes, aiming to keep things moving smoothly even when there are bumps in the road. For instance, imagine a company that makes products using materials from different parts of the world.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Too often, information technology and operational tools are minimized as costs to be controlled. If you screw up, own it. Clearly, excessive cost control at the risk of the companies operational foundation played a role.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. A leader simply operates at their best when they understand their ability to influence is much more fruitful than their ability to control. Bottom line – what you do or don’t surrender to will define you.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

And the bottom line is that trust is anything but soft. Trust needs to become baked into the DNA, strategy, and day-to-day operations of all aspects of business because it impacts relationships with all the business stakeholders. Customers are willing to speak up, organize, and boycott when their expectations aren’t met.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies. Customer capitalists abide by the Golden Rule with customers, whereas financial capitalists make decisions with the bottom line as their only guide. Perhaps not. Love and greed. You know them when you see them.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Topping the list of experiences is a thorough understanding of your marketplace; most often, your candidate will have previously operated as a senior leader within a relevant sector. The CEO might find it incongruous the drive for re-invention and accelerated growth bottom and top line with market realities.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

These priceless individuals value results and the bottom line. The leaders people want to follow balance bottom-up and top-down decision-making. They’re pros at the “science” part of the job, knowing the technical, operational, financial, regulatory, and process components of their job stone cold.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this blog post, we dive into how you can keep your warehouse clean and the impact it could have on your bottom line. Clean Warehouse and Reduced Operational Costs A clean warehouse is an efficient warehouse. Or they could slip on some spilt water on the floor that hasn’t been wiped up.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Leading executive search firms operate in very specific ways to find top leaders who can take a company to its desired future state. While executive search firms have been around for decades, there’s been a recent, revolutionary shift in the ways executive search firms operate. How do executive search firms work?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

The hotel opened in 705 AD and is still operating. Professor Makoto Kanda from Meiji Gakuin University studied the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel and other long-term operating businesses to understand their longevity. Picture the playground teeter-totter with one side up and the other down. Impressive. His findings?

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Invest in Technology Too often, information technology and operational tools are minimized as costs to be controlled. Accept Responsibility If you screw up, own it. Southwest knows they screwed up.

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Airlines Leadership Short-term Long-term 130

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2018

People show up with emotions that affect how they act. People have lives outside business that affect what they’re like when they show up. They come up with good ideas. That’s operational trust. Bottom Line. When someone asked him to sum it up, he said, “In the end, it was all about the people.”.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Karl Moore takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to understanding what drives millennials and generation Z and how the education system they were brought up in has informed their worldview. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bottom line, organizations are seeking to reconstitute themselves as a network of teams, ditching the traditional hierarchy. Leaders are at the bottom of the pyramid supporting those in the team above them and not the other way around. Simon operates from London with a Dublin-based support office. Not really.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Warehouses play a vital role in the supply chain and can, therefore, have a dramatic impact on your business’ bottom line. Of course, having a small amount of safety stock is always sensible, but you should reduce this to the bare minimum if you want to run a really smooth operation. Photo courtesy of Pixabay. Make Safety a Priority.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Creating good jobs In The Case for Good Jobs , MIT Sloan’s Zeynep Ton suggests this should be the wake-up call employers need to ensure that they’re providing good jobs to people so that they’re both better able to attract but also retain the people they will be increasingly hard-pressed to recruit.

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Lead from Within

MAY 31, 2022

If your skills are more focused in other areas of leadership, here are some tips that can help you increase your influence in every direction—up, down and across. They understand every level of their organization, top to bottom. The post How To Increase Your Influence—Up, Down And Across appeared first on Lolly Daskal.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2024

Efficient inventory management is a cornerstone of organizational success, impacting everything from customer satisfaction to the bottom line. The integration of automation further reduces the risk of human error, ensuring that inventory data remains accurate and up-to-date.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Vukelic notes that boutique firms create team structures to work on projects, and their “top-to-bottom” approach offers the client extraordinary attention to detail. This sets both the client and candidate up for success on the first go-around, saving everyone involved valuable time, money, and energy.”. Typically, Ms. Earlier, Ms.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

A common effect-based conversation among managers when results that don’t meet expectations starts out with, “Revenue is 5% below target, so let’s do everything we can to drive it up to make plan”. Math vs. Behavior – Operating results presented in an organization’s P&L reflect an aggregation of activities.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2023

One of the examples they found was the e-kanban, a digital workflow board, developed to help operators visualize the stock levels of different tire models. This new HTSR enables operators to prioritize products based on real-time information displayed at their workstations.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As the need for mobility grows and environmental concerns rise, businesses are keen to optimize their fleet operations not only for cost-effectiveness but also for sustainability and efficiency. By providing fleet managers with up-to-the-minute information, it enables informed and agile decision-making.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

And continuing using the metaphor of head and heart, whilst the head gets things done (20 th century leadership) it is the heart that is essential to pump blood around the body, and so enable the head to operate. So why wouldn’t a company want to become purpose led and help contribute to the triple bottom line of people, performance, planet?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The repercussions of water damage are far-reaching, potentially causing extensive property damage, interrupting business operations, and leading to substantial financial losses. Technology can revolutionize the way businesses operate, offering new tools for efficiency, communication, and data analysis.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. His story is told in Made from Scratch. Most [leaders] are made.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Boosting performance The results show that knowing your boss’s salary is beneficial when operating under a promotion-based system, but not beneficial when you’re not. If you increase pay for the boss, that’s good for the boss, but the people at the bottom will be mad,” the researchers conclude. “If

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2019

The executive signs the company up for everything. A top executive gets bored with day-to-day, boring yet efficient and profitable operations. He or she decides change will spice things up. Boss’s Bottom Line. Business book authors today come complete with pre-designed change package. See paragraph above.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

There was no riding the elevator up to mahogany row on the top floor. A radiotelephone operator (RTO) carried the 20-pound radio and talked on the field commander’s behalf—the reason: enemy snipers looked for signs to identify the leader as their first target. .” Why the insistence on a title when the role is obvious?

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Amazon’s impact is so pervasive that business leaders in nearly every sector around the world need to understand how this force of nature operates. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Its performance determines the health of your daily operations and the long-term success of your enterprise. When something’s wrong, the pain can be acute—even bad enough to keep the company on the floor, unable to get up. Your supply chain is the backbone of your company. Like a backbone, your supply chain is a complex mechanism.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Bottom Line—face reality—the good, the bad, and the ugly! Help people see themselves operating in the new environment. At regular intervals, provide up-to-date information on progress and problems. Open up and share what you are thinking and feeling. Don’t surround yourself with “yes people.” Determine What’s Possible.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 28, 2018

This is true in all three directions: top-down, horizontally, and bottom-up. Involve bottom-up: Traditionally, organizations follow a top-down design, resulting in one-way communication. You as leader play a pivotal role by ensuring excellent interpersonal communication is the basis from which your team operates.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

The bottom line is when you don’t do what you say you will do, or when others have unclear expectations about what you will do, it will result in disappointment, lack of engagement and trust and compromised integrity. When you are not able to keep your word (or keep it on time), let everyone know immediately and clean up the mess this causes.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The residents of those islands had never seen airplanes, or canned food, or many other things that the military uses to support operations. But they were intelligent people and they observed what the military people did to make all those goods show up. The soldiers would go up into a tower with little poles sticking out of the top.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

But we usually are not aware of the who : the inner place or source from which we operate.” The question for leaders is “ How does our blind spot show up in our leadership? That quality of time, if connected to, operates from [pre-sensing] the highest future potential.”. The boundary between observer and observed opens up.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face. The bottom half is comprised of 11 Reactive Tendencies. How do you show up as a leader? As our context change, we have to grow with it.

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Leadership Self-aware Agility Creativity 276

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you currently own and operate a small construction company, here are three common ways you could be losing money right this second: Poor supplier relationships. As a result, this whittles away at your bottom line, making it harder for you to make a profit. The solution? On-site crime.

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