Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. Prove to Others That You’re Proving It to Yourself by Steve Farber (posted 11/22/10) Extreme Leadership is not a solo act; it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. More on that in an upcoming post).

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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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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 14, 2011

Leadership. by John • April 14, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. So, knowing that price fixing is illegal, why would the European executives put their companies and themselves at such risk? April 26, 2011 at 11:20 pm. Leadership. December 2011. November 2011.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. My engagements with CEOs often focus on helping them to embrace change through disruptive innovation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. New technologies and socioeconomic trends are reshaping the retail marketplace. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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CO2

JULY 6, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. 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.

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Letter Blog Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 74

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 65

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. 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. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. The results are mixed.

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Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

He is training senior executives, leaders and employees in organizations like Google, Nike, Accenture, GE and many other organizations in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. She has worked across a range of industries including retail, government, transport, oil and gas, and human services. Her clients include Yahoo!7,

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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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Have you ever said to yourself, How in the world did [insert name of powerful business executive] get to where he is? That executive who made it big probably doesn’t have more powerful brain cells than you… but what he (or she!) He’s not any smarter than I am! Well, chances are you’re right. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Since the unit’s reported financial results were so good, the executives at the corporate headquarters didn’t ask many questions about the drivers of the unit’s profits – until it was too late. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Don’t go it alone… reach out for support through peer groups, coaches and other experts who can help you build your personal resilience and support you in your leadership. Listen to your employees… the further up the leadership ladder you go, the easier it is to get disconnected from the day-to-day realities. Hope to see you then.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. Despite five years of explicit and repeated warnings, the executive team and the board of directors were remarkably slow to see the breadth and gravity of this fraud, and to address it effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

As the year draws to a close, I'm reflecting on what I have learned about leadership from my clients. Over the last twelve months, I have seen the best and worst in leadership. Another executive from South Korea spoke forcefully about how he would leave his highly-paid job in an instant to join 1.6

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Leadership Crisis Banking Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What caused the retailer’s problems in Canada, and what are the lessons learned? Global expansion had been on Target’s mind for some time, and growth through physical stores rather than e-commerce seemed to be the retailer’s preferred path. As Target found, international expansion is difficult, even for top retailers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Just as important, Johnson was trying to significantly change the retailer''s merchandise offerings and hence, its customer base. It can''t revert to its past strategy because the chain was spiraling downwards before hiring Ron Johnson in late 2011. From 2007 to 2011, the chain store''s operating profit dropped from $1.9B

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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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The people who work in a given department all focus on the same departmental goal— advertising promotes sales, shipping moves the product, procurement buys the parts— and they report to the executive in charge of their department, who measures their performance and rewards or penalizes them according to the department’s own metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Penney''s CEO was a catastrophe — an assessment captured in the coverage of his ouster this week: "Former Apple Retail Guru Dumped;" "How Ron Johnson Made JCPenney Even Worse;" and my favorite: "I Am Become Ron Johnson, Destroyer of Worlds." Innovation Leadership Retail' It''s true. That''s just negligent.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Some executives may be reluctant to admit – perhaps for sentimental or political reasons — that their brand is sucking out more value from the company than it creates. Blockbuster’s executives didn’t act quickly enough, but Radio Shack’s leaders might have too ruthless in killing their brand.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent. Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

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). Yet these executives also had an outsider role where they worked on an emerging growth business or consciously explored external opportunities, giving them critical distance from the core.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

million in 2011. Yet corporate leadership still lags as does the percentage of women on U.S. Fortune 500 chief executives were female and 40% of U.S. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% million women-owned businesses in the U.S., corporate boards. of the U.S.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Last week, I shared the news of a special, month-long leadership series here on my blog to celebrate the release this month of my first leadership book, “ Leadership Vertigo ”, co-written with S. In their new book, Leadership Vertigo , Tanveer Naseer and S. If so, you’re not alone.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. It’s that time of year again: time for business owners and senior executives to take stock of the past twelve months. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

The truth is I meet few CEOs or senior executives at large companies who seem to have a vision much beyond the next quarter''s earnings, or a sense of responsibility and commitment to their employees, customers, suppliers, and communities that equals their focus on their shareholders. over the years 1996-2011.

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Company Self-aware Retail CEO 10

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. Innovation managers execute improvements and simultaneously engage and develop people. Jose Luis Prado is a good example.

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Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The evaluation process typically includes a trip to the Bay Area with the senior executive sponsor and his/her leadership team to meet companies and evaluate them as potential partners. Many industries, from retail to manufacturing, have been fundamentally transformed by Silicon Valley technology,” said Zawacki.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Here are our recommendations for the CEO: Give the CMO a seat at the executive table. We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. Leadership Marketing' Tariq Shaukat, CMO for Caesars, agrees.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Get executive buy-in and foster accountability It’s not enough for executives to agree on the goals, business rules and constraints, and decisions that will be made. Juliano Howard T.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 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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