Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Know your values… as an individual and as a company. 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. It pays for leaders to be a little bit paranoid. Hope to see you then. Happy leading!

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COO Crisis Management Crisis Blog 34

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so. million in 2011. companies had all-male boards. companies have a woman CEO versus 9% globally. of the U.S.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Max Brown (to learn more about the book and the numerous book retailers where you can buy a copy, click here to check out the book page on my website ). Give Thanks My practice of writing over 30,000 thank you notes during my tenure as CEO of Campbell Soup Company is somewhat well known. I isolated myself.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.

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Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

He arrived as President at Quaker Foods North America in 2011 to find a strong, trusted brand with nutritional oatmeal products, but he knew there was an opportunity to build upon the legacy of this iconic brand. Earlier in his career he worked at EDS (an IT services provider), where he learned how to run IT as a business.

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Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Researchers in the fields of business, economics, and psychology maintained their relentless pursuit of knowledge in 2011, discovering, among other things, that a joke can get you a raise and that it's OK to mimic your customers. If you're a waitress, become a close-talker: Waitresses can increase their tips 22.6% by standing 0.6

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P&L How To Stress Comparison 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

But even if you embrace a less extreme version of the old ‘command and control’ style of leadership, you’re blocking the natural flow of the life’s blood of the company. Yet one of the biggest threats facing small, medium-size, and, yes, even Fortune 500 companies is inertia. Innovation.

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Innovation How To Retail Motivation 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 25, 2012

After leaving the C-Suite almost twenty years ago, I pursued a career as a strategy consultant. Last year, I came out of retirement for six months to help a smaller company brand itself. The company is Houweling’s Tomatoes. For most food retailers, this will require a mindset shift. I know – you’ve never heard of them.

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Brand Retail Bureaucracy Constraint 242

Roundtable Talk

JULY 21, 2010

This isn’t the first time Hsieh has sold a company. of companies say that their customer is #1, the difference with Zappos.com is they really walk the talk. The company is guided by a set of 10 core values. billion (yes billion) dollars. So, probably 99.9% Here they are: Deliver Wow through service. Embrace and drive change.

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CEO Retail Mission Statement Blog 46

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. ” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year.

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