Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Five Reasons to Make Discomfort Your Friend How to Get Lazy People to Work Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday Ten Ways to Make a Great First Impression Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management Kevin Eikenberry: Thanks Dave!Kevin He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 21, 2023

Debbie and I have known each other since 2009, when we worked together virtually for MicroMentor, Debbie on the West Coast, and me in the Midwest – and Debbie has appeared here on my blog many times over the years, sharing insights about marketing and leadership. Be sure to visit both her website and her blog.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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. PHOTO: Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. .

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CO2

JULY 6, 2010

As a reminder, if you are not fully satisfied, you can return your undamaged iPhone to any Apple Retail Store or the online Apple Store within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. For those who have had concerns, we apologize for any anxiety we may have caused. We hope you love the iPhone 4 as much as we do.

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Steve Farber

MAY 7, 2011

I spent 6 years as Vice President of The Tom Peters Company , whose founder and namesake is arguably the most influential “management guru” of our time. Having started out as an entrepreneur in my late 20’s to early 30’s, I’ve worked for the last two decades in leadership development in the corporate world.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

On December 8 th , we’ll be meeting with Christine Magee of Sleep Country Canada to talk about her leadership lessons from close to two decades of building Canada’s best known mattress retailer. Click here to register for that session (12 seats only). Hope to see you then. Happy leading!

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Out of the Crisis resonated with me – not because of statistics, but because of the human factors, the psychology, and the workplace dynamics that I already recognized from the workplace, having worked a few part time retail jobs at that point. I had experience a bullying boss who didn’t listen to their employees.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Is it the clothing retail business? Administration/management. If so, do you understand that business? Can you cook great food? Can you wait tables? Is it the military? Do you understand small unit tactics? Can you operate weapons? You gotta know the business. You gotta have business savvy. Can you organize things? Account for things?

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

They manage their businesses (they use tools) In the web 1.0 Of course, hindsight 20/20 – we see that Google is entering into the “real estate&# game in a big way. Take a few things that people do normally online. They search 2. They communicate 3. They share 4. In the web 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. The proof is Cisco's own 2009 new product promise. My third innovation obvious is equally obvious: Why not a daily QR code in a 7-11 or other retail outlet to promote a product or service of the day? What happened? Smartphones were becoming smarter.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

All the world's apparel manufacturers and retailers have joined the race to clothe China. In 2009, sales totaled $114 billion, making China the world's second-largest apparel market behind the $287 billion U.S. Apparel retailers in China face three challenges: Geographic. The era of the all-purpose Zhongshan suit is over.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

In 2009, two bright, young entrepreneurs in India saw a key pain point with local retailers, who had no ability to engage with their existing customers. This new solution enabled retailers to better understand their customers, track their behavior, and deliver personalized offers based on Capillary''s predictive analytics capability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

March 2009 was the worst, at 830,000 jobs lost. These numbers, as with all those that I’ll cite here, are adjusted to iron out seasonal factors such as the customary rise in retail employment before Christmas and bust soon after.) The number of government jobs peaked in April 2009 at almost 22.7 million jobs lost.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

And Capabilities and Management Systems act as a reality check on the Where to Play and How to Win choice. If you can’t identify a set of Capabilities and Management Systems that you currently have, or can reasonably build, to make the Where to Play and How to Win choice come to fruition, it is a fantasy, not a strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Persuading consumers to pay more for a product by introducing some kind of “premium” element into it has always been a challenging task—but it was one that big, established brands had managed with a reasonable amount of success until recent years. One response by established brands has been to acquire smaller companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% We set about investigating the financial costs and benefits of the uptake of sustainable and deforestation-free beef by ranchers, slaughterhouses, and retailers in Brazil. of revenues).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. Essential Experts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, the world’s largest retailer took a major and important step toward helping all of us shop smarter. ” For the first time, a major retailer is giving prominent shelf space — albeit virtual — to companies operating in a better way. Sustainability Supply chain Market research Retail & Consumer Goods'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Back in January 2009, my colleague Tim Huse and I wrote an article for Forbes.com in which we offered some predictions based on a pattern we'd observed while doing research for The Silver Lining. We had assembled a database of companies that we called "on-the-brink" disruptors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

This preserved one of the indicators that have consistently pointed north since the economy emerged from recession in 2009. A few years ago, one of the world's largest retailers had literally hundreds of initiatives going after same-store sales growth. When revenue targets were hit, a manager would emerge and give that gong a wallop.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2009 it was reimagined as an online shopping festival. Unlike Amazon, Alibaba is not even a retailer in the traditional sense—we don’t source or keep stock, and logistics services are carried out by third-party service providers. This cannot be managed in the traditional way. Think enabling not managing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

The former Apple executive was too Silicon Valley for the Plano, Texas, retailer. He abandoned the discounting customers had come to expect from retailers. Among his more interesting initiatives was to leverage capabilities that Penney''s had long developed as a catalog company into the emerging world of Internet retail.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

This was originally posted in 2009, and it remains one of our most popular posts. Better Time Management Is Not the Answer. Management is chaotic by nature. Penney's new CEO on how to create an irresistible retail experience. Important advice for smart people (and their parents and managers). by David Silverman.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The book retail platform was not yet burning. The HBR article describes how B&N moved on multiple fronts at once: It aggressively reduced costs in its core retail business while refocusing its stores around consumer needs. But the flames were about to rise. Carefully monitor customer satisfaction.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

“The number of private-sector business establishments grew just 2 percent from 2009 to 2012 after growing 12 percent from 2001 to 2007. Texas - From 2009 to 2012, Texas accounted for 22% of all net new business establishments in the U.S. Nearly 30,000 more establishments in 2012 than 2009, up 5%.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

In the past, time management experts would recommend that you divide up your work into A tasks, B tasks, and C tasks. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

retailer, spent the last three decades improving its supply chain processes, and designing and launching a series of services, including smaller local convenience stores and online shopping. In response, Dan Jones, chairman of the Lean Academy who worked with Tesco, commented that the retailer''s success is rooted in failure. "In

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

It wasn't based on perceived popularity or some other subjective measure, but simply on the basis of how well the stock had performed during the CEOs' tenure — from the first day on the job to the last (or if they were still in office, until September 30, 2009, our last date of observation). His tenure had not ended. Hid did it all.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

The shop's small retail footprint means there is no "back of the store" and certainly no sophisticated inventory management software. The distribution vehicle was a bicycle, and the distributor carried the stock in a small plastic bag. The pharmacist took inventory by glancing over his shoulder at what he had on the shelf.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Ask a buy-side analyst why Amazon or Apple fetches the price-earnings multiple they do, and inevitably the conversation turns to things like their ability to innovate, their capacity to capture and grow the best talent, their skill at managing brand and vendor relationships or ecosystems. If you can't measure it, how can you manage it?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Apple created the online entertainment business retail pivot. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

The story of MBH Architects, a northern California firm that designs retail stores, conveys an important lesson on how to survive such a cash crisis. Retailers halted construction on new stores and shuttered underperforming ones. Top management must be very careful about how they downsize the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

It also confirms how simplicity can drive performance: a portfolio of the publicly traded companies in the global top 10 brands has beaten the average global stock index by 214% since we first started conducting the study in 2009, and this year’s top 10 continues the trend. Let’s look closely at the 2015 top 10 brands in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Imagine one of your managers walks into their subordinate’s office and says, “Our data analysis predicts that you will soon get restless and think of leaving us, so we want to make you an offer that our data shows has retained others like you.” Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management? Would they be delighted or disturbed?

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