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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 14, 2011

by John • April 14, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. I’ll take an educated guess and say that P&G and Unilever top management knew absolutely nothing of the conspiracy until the regulators came knocking. April 26, 2011 at 11:20 pm. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011.

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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.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There is still time to vote for Steve or our other great nominees for the Best Leadership Blog of 2011. 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

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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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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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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Whether you’re a business student, aspiring entrepreneur, or a practicing executive, you need to discover the winning ways of The Benevolent Dictator. Before you resign yourself to living in your own not-so-amusing TV show, let me offer some commonsense management advice.

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Motivation Management How To Retail 51

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

The idea of incentivizing CEOs and senior executives seems reasonable to most people. Yet the large executive bonus is a relatively recent phenomenon. Executive pay grew more slowly than the average worker’s income during the 50s, 60s and part of the 70s. Dave Wheeler for HBR. Is it now time to redesign the experiment?

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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

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

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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Based on thousands of years of practice, mindfulness techniques enable people to manage their attention, improve their awareness, and sharpen their focus and clarity. She has managed teams of more than 100 people and budgets of over $60M. Notes : Harvard Business Review, “Beware the Busy Manager,” February 2002.

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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

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

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?". Paul Leinwand is a Partner in Booz & Company's global consumer, media, and retail practice. Cesare Mainardi is Managing Director of Booz & Company's North American business and is a member of the firm's Executive Committee.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes." In this forward-looking item, we kicked off the year with a practical infographic tool to help executives identify which geographies to invest in — and which to avoid. How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping. Well, a girl can dream.).

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Like Satan in the book of Job, I've been going to and fro in the earth over the past few months, in my case talking to corporate executives, consultants, and former consultants. Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. Monitor & Co.,

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

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. Leave a Reply Cancel reply RSS - Posts Subscribe to our Blog Brought to you by: Online MBA Rankings Join our Fan Page The Executive Roundtable Inc.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Most companies get metrics all wrong. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

On June 14, 2011, JCP appointed Apple Store star Ron Johnson as CEO to replace what activist investor Bill Ackman derided as the completely failed regime of then-CEO Mike Ullman, who had apparently badly mismanaged JCP for his seven years at the helm. It has been a surreal two years for shareholders, customers, and employees of J.

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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. Meanwhile, the number of people agreeing with the statement "I build my wardrobe around different occasions and needs" rose from 36% in 2010 to 45% in 2011. Apparel retailers in China face three challenges: Geographic.

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Apparel Franchising Retail Fashion 13

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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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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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

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' Ron Johnson''s 17-month tenure as J.C. It''s true.

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Merchandising Retail Gordon Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

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. ’” Purpose might have informed the management of two failed brands – Blockbuster and Radio Shack — differently.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

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). We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The executives of Fortune 500 companies might be able to lose the same bet with impunity, and the founders of venture capital-funded startups are only renting the farm (with the VC’s money) anyway. But for a midsize company, an ambitious investment that you don’t have the wherewithal to execute on can be fatal.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 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. Yet fewer than half felt that their companies were doing enough to address this disruption. Minimize Pain.

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. million in 2011. 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% Her husband left his real estate firm to run her office and manage the company. of the U.S.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. Artificial intelligence (AI) is another emerging innovation that can reduce disruptions and make it possible for electronics products to reach consumers and retailers in a timely fashion and in compliance with quality standards.

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Supply Chain Compliance Fashion Efficiency 117

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The managing director needs to know when and where we're launching. These were exciting times for their employer, the German automaker Vado, as it moved into the rapidly expanding e-bike industry, but Stefanie, the manager of the new e-bike unit, was feeling the weight of the decisions she faced. "I I can't wait any longer. More >>.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Nor do I have to convince leaders to develop new competencies: experience taught them that self-awareness, being able to deal with ambiguity, manage continual change, devolve leadership, and coach their people and are critical to their survival. I hope 2011 will be a calmer ride, though I very much doubt this will be the case.

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Leadership Crisis Banking Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. Statoil , a Scandinavian energy company, launched a climate and energy program in 2011 that nominates 10 senior executives to take part in a year-long program. Sustainability Talent management'

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Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Firms in this segment have many more “moving parts” than start-up companies – systems connected to other systems, more layers of management through which bad news in the field must travel, etc. As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. Later that year, Dave’s got $2.1

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