Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio 12 Steps To Building & Maintaining The Team Thursday, December 09th, 2010 Posted by: mike 3 circles image = TM John Adair (1) Leading & Working in teams 3 areas of focus are necessary; Team : the need to develop and maintain good working relationships among team members. All rights reserved.

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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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Fashion Press Release Discount PR 124

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. 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.

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Press Release Magazine Entrepreneur Discount 133

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 21, 2010

All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio Positive Illusion an Elbow to the Crotch of Your Dogmatic Leadership & Team Building Tuesday, July 06th, 2010 Posted by: mike image from Grand Illusions THE IMAGE ABOVE IS NOT MOVING! really it is not.

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Team Building Case Study Learning-by-Doing Training 114

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio Team Building & Leadership: Case Study; Increased Trust=Faster Implementation of Decisions & Problems Solved Cheaper Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 Posted by: mike The following is a true story, of value added results that come from Create-Learning’s Team Building & Leadership Processes. All rights reserved.

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Case Study Team Building Team Leadership 110

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Working through this determination of Potential Capability; Applied Capability; Future Potential Capability Leaders can accurately develop skills and alignment of values to the work that is to be completed. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio Is Your Leadership & Work Matched to Capability; How do you know?

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Team Building Leadership Process Learning-by-Doing 132

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Related posts: How to Select the Right Project Team Members Eliminating Negative to Increase Positive Team Building & Leadership Process for a Retail Operation; New Product Launch Before the Promotion He Was Nice & Had Potential. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 14, 2010

When you have and rely on models and processes that work and match your time-span, values & commitments, plus skill set you can take more time for the thinking and problem solving necessary for leading yourself developing a skill set of leading others. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Once your responsibilities change.

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Delegation Leadership Team Building Process 92

Your Voice of Encouragement

MAY 11, 2011

At the 2011 Glazer-Kennedy SuperConference, I had the privilege of meeting Kathy Ireland and hearing her address the audience of 1200 entrepreneurs. It’s easy to look at someone who’s attained celebrity status like Kathy and make assumptions about what led to her current success. I know I did. And I was surprised at how wrong I was.

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Retail Taylorism Taylor Magazine 102

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Establish roles & responsibilities + discuss what each person ‘brings to the table’ – Understanding the various roles and responsibilities of the team is critical to success. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. One is the strategic leader and the other is the team leader. Oct 2010 Another great post I would add 2 others items.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The big question for many leaders as they look toward 2011 is: "How can my company be one of them?". Leaders need to look past Wall Street-pleasing adjacencies or new businesses, and instead make sure their core strategy will result in long-term success. Define precisely how your way to play adds value for your chosen customers (e.g.,

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Strategy Fixed Assets Competitive Advantage Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This non-traditional, gung-ho guide is not afraid to lay out the leadership methods that can effectively get a new business off the ground, and through the requisite fast-track growth phases that produce tangible success measured by your bottom line and your wallet. billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

This non-traditional, gung-ho guide is not afraid to lay out the leadership methods that can effectively get a new business off the ground, and through the requisite fast-track growth phases that produce tangible success measured by your bottom line and your wallet. billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy.

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Motivation Management How To Retail 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

And while action addiction is a natural outcome of the modern work environment, it doesn’t need to be a perpetual obstacle to success. Rasmus has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development & Adult Learning and degrees in Philosophy and Human Resources. Franklin Covey, “FranklinCovey Global Time Matrix™ Survey,” 2011.

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Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Is it the clothing retail business? The world isnt wired to make you successful. People who want to be successful should get serious work about developing themselves in all four of these areas. And in my new online self-development service, ProStar Coach. The business. Is it the restaurant business? On this blog.

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Skills Bottom-up Video Blog 44

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Joel Barker says you can innovate faster, cheaper and with less risk by developing innovations at the verge. Lead to breed success. Innovate quickly.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In fact, it matters as much or more than a number of other factors associated with successful businesses, like technology adoption. Third, being located near a successful large new entrant improved practices, probably because it allows local companies to learn about best practices from leading firms.

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Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either.

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Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Be a floodlight and share the successes. And, enjoying success when it comes along is important, but don’t get too high. 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.

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COO Crisis Management Crisis Blog 34

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Three and a half months after announcing a price increase in July 2011, Netflix had lost 800,000 customers and its stock nosedived from $291 to $75. While I don't condone it, most retailers set prices by simply marking up their wholesale costs. Thus, if wholesale prices go up, retail prices do too.

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Price Retail Press Release Banking 12

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon).

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Brimming with confidence after their recent success in China's biggest cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, both foreign and local marketers have expanded into many smaller cities across the country. Getting around these retailing hurdles will require flexibility and creativity. This market was estimated at around RMB 2.9

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Marketing Franchising Retail Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Growth has slowed sharply among oil exporters and North African countries affected by the 2011 Arab Spring democracy movements—but the rest of Africa posted accelerating growth at an average annual rate of 4.4%

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Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The launch of Pokémon Go this summer was a huge success—both for the gaming industry and for Augmented Reality (AR). But it is just as important to ask: What has contributed to AR’s increasing success? This growing presence of AR results from a long trajectory of development that has been full of hits and misses.

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. E-retailers in these emerging markets are today confronting a number of fundamental issues, a large one being trust. model and adapts it for local customer needs.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

More importantly are the Big Picture statistics that affect every aspect of business growth and success. Business development. One learns three times more from failure than from success. Failures are the surest tracks toward future successes. The current success rate for organizational hires is 14%. by Hank Moore.

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 83

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The malfunction caused major delays shipping toys to retailers. Not surprisingly, many of those retailers refused to pay when the toys finally did arrive, too late for the holiday season. Blue Arc’s R&D had a track record of success; it was a proven team. BlueArc’s new product hit the market and was an instant success.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. In a survey of attendees, he found that nearly 80% of the respondents would rather have a boss who cared about them finding meaning and success in work than receive a 20% pay increase. Current compensation levels show only a marginal relationship with job satisfaction.

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Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

This popularity has enabled Heineken to raise admission prices by more than 60 percent since 2009 and increase retail sales per capita by 100 percent from 2009 to 2014. The Coca-Cola Company has seen similar success with its World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta. The principles of destination storytelling.

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Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

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. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6%

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

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