The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Organizational engagement surveys are showing that employee frustration is accelerating as engagement plummets. As with many leadership and culture tools and techniques, too many managers are “doing their engagement thing” by asking their HR professionals to run engagement surveys. They feel trapped.

Power 61

Power Survey Uncertainty Globalization 61

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

He is the founder of The Potential Project – a leading global provider of corporate based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries. Gillian Coutts has over 20 years of experience as a leader and change agent in the sales and operations functions of large corporations. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 191, 2011, 36–43.

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Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries. Investing in research and development helps to establish this culture and ensure the company will remain ahead of the curve.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Over the past few years, we've all become much more aware of the forces that will powerfully shape global society over the next decade. It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. So in one sense, Polman is only being a good businessman.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

In 2012 the rise in consumer activism and mobility, the Occupy movement, 24-hour accountability (thanks to social media), and global resource depletion will force every enterprise, large and small, to make CSR a focal point. in operating income, while companies with lower levels declined 32.7% (Towers Watson). Marketing experts agree.

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Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

.&# When speaking with employees who have never been asked for their opinion before at work (33% of bosses rarely or never ask for their subordinate advise based on a national survey we conducted) they say they will never work for another company in which they did not get to participate in the strategic planning process.

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Strategic Planning Motivation Planning Executive Coaching 76

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

Only 35% are in line or operational roles – and there has been no significant change in these percentages over the last three years. However, this is better than the 20% in 2011. In this category, the individual(s) is in a staff or support function rather than a line or operational role. Gender Global business'

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Execution Committee Balanced Scorecard Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Among the top performers on the 2011 World's Best Multinational Companies list are culturally-strong technology companies such as Microsoft, NetApp, SAS, and Google. The survey garnered responses from 20 of the top 25 companies in the global workplace ranking. The response came back resoundingly: It's simply good for business.

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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. Insight Center.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. Macroeconomic data during the 2008 financial crisis show the bullwhip effect operating on a much broader scale. Lessons from the Past.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management. The system also improves product quality by creating regulated growing conditions.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Few major economies have been so critical to global companies’ top-line—and then stumbled just as abruptly. There are two key strategies that multinational executives operating in Brazil should consider. Each requires leaders to pay particular attention to nuances related to the Brazilian market.

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2010, IBM ran a survey of 1,500 CEOs and found that the most valuable management skill was no longer "operations" or "marketing" but "creativity." Since then BCG, Accenture and other consultancies have confirmed the global skill shift. CEOs say that creativity is a crucial leadership skill, but few apparently have it.

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Creativity How To Efficiency Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

When we at the IBM Institute for Business Value surveyed a group of academic and industry leaders about the current state of higher education, they agreed. Those surveyed overwhelmingly agree that providing experience-based and practical learning is critical to address the current performance gaps.

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Education Industry Technology Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Tomas* is a regional vice president in Santiago, Chile He works for a European company with operations throughout the globe. In the September 2011 issue of HBR, we published " Finding Great Ideas in Emerging Markets " to share our findings about this conundrum. One recent interview stood out.

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Marketing Wilde Innovation Learning-by-Doing 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. They engage, tell the big story of why you do what you do, listen, and model desirable behaviors.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

However, in our survey of 1,060 global executives , only 30% of executives work for companies that benefited from the internal use of social media. Even operational efficiency was unaffected. Many organizations have started using social media tools internally to interact with their employees.

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Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 16

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. Marijuana companies will trade on the major stock exchanges, and they’ll have global businesses.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 11

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

In a 2010 survey, a record 36% of women ages 25-29 had attained a bachelor’s degree compared to 28% of men of the same age. million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% companies have a woman CEO versus 9% globally. companies had all-male boards.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

A recently released survey reveals that 86 percent of firms face increasing complexity in their operating environment or organizational structure over the past three years. Complexity stemming from globalization or technology rank much lower in the list of causes. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Crisis Survey Analysis Finance 78

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

There's a difference between leading a global company and being a global leader. To be successful, any leader of a global corporation has to be brilliant, and master the functional skills they learned in business school. Kevin Kelly, and Bryan McDonald noted in their 2011 HBR article, "The New Path to the C-Suite.".

Globalization 16

Globalization Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Education 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab Spring, when a generation found its voice on the streets of Tunis and Cairo. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a rapidly diversifying, entrepreneurial, and globally connected business region. And this healthy growth is despite the uncertainty following the Arab Spring.

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Class Globalization Survey Cooper 15

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 17, 2012

In a recent survey of job skills relevant and necessary in the 21st century work environment (2), creative thinking and social skills drive 80% of skills needed for 21st century jobs: Social Intelligence: connecting to others in a deep and direct way, sensing and stimulating reactions and desired interactions. link] .

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Katz Globalization Class Survey 84

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men." Kirsten Gagnaire is the Global Director of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), launched in May 2011 by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Strategy 8

Strategy Marketing Market Segmentation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

A 2010 Mercer survey of about 3,000 companies found that same-sex benefits were offered by 72 percent of companies employing more than 20,000 people. The 15th Annual PWC Global CEO Survey (2012) section titled "The Talent Challenge" focused on the impact talent recruitment and retention has on business growth and competitive differentiation.

Advertising 18

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 18

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store. The Option You Can''t Use. Working Adults Mom Corps, Harris Interactive.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

When it comes to discussions on the various challenges leaders need to address in today’s fast-changing global economy, there’s one topic that merits a proper assessment as to whether or not it’s really an issue for today’s organizations. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P., Badger J.M., 3) Finegold D.,

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 243

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

When I ran the Talent Management division of a large global consulting firm after I left GE, I realized that these consultants were working from concepts that were academic vs. real life. That's where a members' survey is essential. One such example was a young man who was on my team with a Ph.

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Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 333

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. The marketplace dictates change as part of the company’s global being. Capitalization is stretched beyond limits, and operations advance in a cash-poor mode. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

Yet as the global recession continues into its fifth year, there are signs that businesses are adapting. Today, the environment in which businesses must operate has become consistently inconsistent and predictably unpredictable. Yet we also have higher corporate profits, positive consumer sentiment, and low interest rates.

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Uncertainty Long-term Dunning Stress 8