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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Resources indicate that the term “employee relations” started to gain popularity around 2006 when, according to CIDP , the meaning began to shift from the industrial relations understanding of employees as a collective whole , and instead emphasize the focus on individual employees.

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Pain VS Gain: How to Best Motivate Buyers to Buy

The Empowered Buisness

The following example comes from coaching a Mazda/ VW automotive dealership sales team. Dan is also the author of 5 books, including the #1 business best-seller, Sales Autopsy (Kaplan, 2006). Once you know, you’ll need to be prepared to have some bullet points to use, Gain-based and Pain-based language to use during the sales call.

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Is Tesla Really a Disruptor? (And Why the Answer Matters)

Harvard Business Review

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? In the meantime, of course, there’s no guarantee that Tesla will be the winner in any automotive technology arms race. None of them succeeded.

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Why Elon Musk’s New Strategy Makes Sense

Harvard Business Review

The first installment had been written in 2006. It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. Last week Elon Musk released the second installment of Tesla’s Master Plan.

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

In IBM's 2006 jam, the company assembled 150,000 people from 104 countries and 67 client companies. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands. In part 2, employees rated the best-of-the-best ideas and senior management committed to implement the top 35.

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The Defining Elements of a Winning Culture

Harvard Business Review

When Alan Mulally became CEO at Ford in 2006, the company operated in regional silos. They rationalized brands, consolidated automotive platforms, made options and parts more common and designs more innovative. But high-performing organizations typically spike on the three or four that are most critical to their success.