Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Leadership Lessons from Sparky Anderson by Kevin Eikenberry on November 5, 2010 in Influence , Leadership , Learning I grew up like many men my age, a big baseball fan. I always liked George “Sparky&# Anderson.

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Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Workshop 190

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

What distinguishes members of one group from another rarely has anything to do with intellect, wealth, social pedigree, career standing, or other like pursuits…It has everything to do with desire. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Not to boast, just to confirm what you are saying.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

That's where a members' survey is essential. A simple survey can identify, within barbershop chapters, whether the group is mostly interested in a) socializing or in b) performing at a high level. It addresses the important leadership tenet: Find out what your members (followers) want and help them get it.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 8, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Getting to the Heart of Mental Toughness The Importance of Being Purposeful → March 9, 2010 · 4:37 am ↓ Jump to Comments Employee Engagement…What’s in a Name? Were the hospital’s costs better managed or the patients’ experience enhanced?

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Survey Human Resources Blog Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

That slice of information can be the difference between a workforce that is satisfied and productive and one that isn’t — costing the business money in the long run. At Glassdoor we have a unique window into the labor market, as we use reviews and salary surveys to gather insights about companies and employee sentiment.

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Morale Long-term Career Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

According to a recent survey, 76% of senior executives reported that their organizations needed to develop global leadership capabilities , but a mere 7% felt they were doing so effectively. A 2005 survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that only 7.5% sits right at the global average with 14% non-native CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

If you are a business leader at the very top of your game, it will help you avoid career stagnation. A recent Gallup survey shows a record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed. Then in December of 2010, I received an email that changed my perspective, and my life. Or was it okay?

Leadership 11

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Census Bureau announced that the percentage of Americans who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 — 11.6 But recent research from CareerRelocate.com and CareerBuilder shows that Americans may be more willing to move than we think: 44 percent of workers surveyed said they would be willing to relocate for a career opportunity.

Health Care 12

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. Especially telling: 57% of the Chinese women university graduates surveyed for our book Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets rated the public sector as an attractive job option. More than 6.4 What's going on?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Many employees are encouraged to “just be yourself,” only to find their authenticity — and their career ambitions — constrained by unwritten office rules about appearance, speech, and behavior. Walling off parts of your life can cost you not only personally but also professionally.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

We recently surveyed more than 2,000 hiring managers about their recruiting behaviors and tactics. According to the survey, 46 percent of employers exclude salary and wages from their job listings, and the idea that companies should disclose a projected salary range before the interview phase will be a nonstarter for many employers.

Company 8

Company Tactics Open-book Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth. This was crazy, we initially thought.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

To answer these questions, we surveyed several dozen senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm in 2010. For more on the survey respondents, see “Who We Surveyed” below.) The answer turns out to be far more nuanced than mere wealth accumulation and career advancement.

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Reputation Consultative P&L Execution 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Executional excellence on each policy usually costs very little beyond some creativity and a little care. Survey users to make sure their needs are being met. This may sound like a big project, so we find it is useful to start by improving our implementation of one policy and then moving to the next. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

To answer these questions, we surveyed 32 senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm. The costs of not doing so—not continuously changing and evolving—are likely to be high. Many respondents recommended a mentor—one whose career trajectory the executive hopes to emulate—as a source of information and advice.

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360-Degree Feedback Self-aware Mentor Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Tenure locks in big costs and makes it difficult for universities to explore more productive teaching techniques. colleges need to tap their cutting-edge research, best teachers and the growing array of technological tools to make education more cost-efficient, exciting and accessible. In the U.S., The impact on teaching.

Engineering 8

Engineering Education Class Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Their distribution systems make CSD items available in virtually every retail format, in every country in the world, and have cost efficiencies that emerging brands cannot achieve. Second, we surveyed consumers to understand what was appealing about Zevia. European, Latin American and Asian countries also have approved it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Another survey notes that 69% of employees are already at least passively shopping for new job opportunities via social media today. A little stability in career and workplace can help them cope more effectively with the stresses that are sure to occur within the rest of their lives. Now the employees and management own the company.

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Long-term Execution Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Annually, my firm ManpowerGroup conducts a global Talent Shortage Survey [pdf] , and remarkably, from 2010 to 2011, the percentage of employers in the U.S. On top of that huge recruiting disadvantage, he recognized that the selection model teams were using was more than a century old. million open jobs.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Budgeting Construction Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

As I sit to write each morning, I draw upon the vast network of people (many in active chat windows) with whom I've worked in the trenches over the course of a 35-year career, while also having the benefit of opinions and insight by expert strangers a click away. It's a huge and real loss in terms of career development.

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Silverman Real Estate Fashion Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative 11:52 AM Wednesday November 24, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Business is, above all, busy. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it. All rights reserved.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. At that point if you took a survey of what the outlook was, you’d get an overwhelming positive response the day before it falls on its face. But that’s the true cost.

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