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Rethinking Digital Transformation: An Interview With Kathleen Wilson-Thompson

HR Digest

Harnessing Digital Transformation of Covid-19 Crisis. The HR Digest: How has Walgreens Boots Alliance responded to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure employee safety, managing relationships with clients, collaboration with industry leaders and internal workforce management? plant as the Human Resources manager.

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Shantou's Workshop: The Company Behind 2010's Hottest Toy

Harvard Business Review

Instead, managers tend to refer to development. The company started out in 1997 with a product line mainly inspired by Japanese products and cartoons — and its ability to learn from others is what saved it at a crisis point. He saved Syma," Kevin Cheng, Syma's sales manager told me. Frustrated customers had stopped buying.

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3 For Your Leadership Reading List: The Half-Full Book Review

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 3 For Your Leadership Reading List: The Half-Full Book Review by Starbucker on January 28, 2010 As the big stack on my desk attests, I love to read books that expand my knowledge and offer new insights on topics that interest me.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. More like a chasm, really.)

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How to Anticipate a Burning Platform

Harvard Business Review

As we can see with an additional year of hindsight, the lesson of the burning platform is that it is far better to anticipate the crisis and change your behavior well before the explosion. By 2010, it would have been too late to act, as we saw with the Border's bankruptcy. The book retail platform was not yet burning.

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Temporary employment has jumped 50% since the depths of the financial crisis. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.". Something profoundly structural is going on.

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When Does the Buck Stop?

Harvard Business Review

From 1998 to 2005, J&J ranked at the top of Harris Interactive's National Corporate Reputation Survey , and in 2008 Barron's named it the world's most respected company. He shook up the management of J&J's consumer arm, replacing former consumer chief Colleen Goggins with a 30-year veteran insider. Weldon did take action.

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