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. He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote. Are you showing by your example that you are a continually learning leader? Do it now !

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Workshop Blog Learning-by-Doing Video 179

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 28, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio Expectations + Capabilities = Judgment Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted by: mike Expectations: Your perception, anticipation and interpretation of what work should be completed and the level of competency that should be present in order to complete the work. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Team Building Learning-by-Doing Retail Training 116

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!

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Team Building Case Study Learning-by-Doing Training 114

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Already we’ve seen retail demand falling to unprecedented levels, with reduced mobility also causing demand for oil to plummet. It’s a contract that’s based upon trust and is vital if productivity is to be high across the business. Supporting the foundations.

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Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 84

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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2010

All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. 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.

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Team Team Building Training Commitment 124

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Cortazar Related posts: Leadership Development Program Team Building & Leadership Process for a Retail Operation; New Product Launch Little things that make a BIG difference as a Leader Make decisions & Solve Problems Within a Time Span…TeamBuilding & Leadership Process Planning, Delegation, Accountability + FUN!

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Delegation Leadership Team Building Process 92

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 12, 2010

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

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. Jan 2011 Guy.

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Case Study Team Building Team Leadership 110

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio 9 Team Dynamics That Get Results Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 Posted by: mike Team dynamics defined as the motivating and driving forces that propel a team toward its goal and mission 1.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

Penney in November 2011 with a mandate to turn the ailing retailer around, all eyes were on him. He had an amazing legacy: Senior VP of Retail Operations at Apple pioneering the concept of the Apple Retail stores and the Genius Bar. And indeed he had a very innovative strategy for J.

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Retail Price Merchandising CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Last week, I moderated a "Super Session" at this year's annual National Retail Federation " Big Show." Powered by local, mobile, and social media, online retail is becoming something that no long-time, card-carrying NRF member might reasonably have anticipated. Ultra-Specialization: Ultra-specialist sites unlock latent demand.

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Retail Fashion Merchandising Apparel 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. Improve productivity. Innovate quickly. Innovate constantly.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org are taking a look back at the most popular blog posts of the year to find out what most preoccupied you, our readers. HBR's 11 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011. Do you perpetuate these productivity-destroying falsehoods at your company? Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

Moreover, attracting and retaining talent is “at the top of the agenda” for CEOs, according to the 2011 Annual Global CEO Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to a recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics , the employment outlook by companies in the United States has soared to a 12-year high. . Barbara T.

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Armstrong Storytelling White Paper Brand 108

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?". The competitive value of capabilities, however, will only grow as you apply them to your entire portfolio of products, day in and day out. Paul Leinwand is a Partner in Booz & Company's global consumer, media, and retail practice.

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Strategy Fixed Assets Competitive Advantage Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

They might include sales productivity metrics such as market share, the company’s ability to charge premium prices relative to peers, or sales force productivity. Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production. But please.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

First off, our most popular podcast this year was Justin Fox's interview with Bob Pozen, " Productivity Secrets of a Very Busy Man." Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes." How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping. Wish You Worked Here: Beautiful, Productive Office Spaces.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. If you will not buy for yourself a specific product, don’t try to sell it. Santander has also been innovative when it comes to social media and mobile campaigns. Click here to cancel reply.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 65

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

The decisions, which were both unanimous, significantly scaled back the ability of patent holders to slow innovation by competitors, tipping scales that many legal scholars believe have become badly imbalanced. Taken together, the two cases will improve the innovation environment for companies in fast-changing industries.

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Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

CO2

JULY 6, 2010

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. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Letter Blog Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Jobs was an innovator at heart. Put two-and-two together, and you simply see less innovation with Cook at the top than with Jobs. Employees on the factory floor and in the retail stores are on the move, and it's not a completely positive journey. Neither bode well for the future.

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Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The Future of Retail. There are troubling signs for the country's retailers as Americans continue to slow down their spending and hunt for deep discounts. Most retailers are just hoping to eek out a slight increase over the year before. No one expects a blockbuster holiday season.

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Tactics Retail Discount Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

Ever since Amazon''s Price App appeared on the retail scene some 18 months ago, pundits have prophesized the demise of big-box retailers. There''s no question that Amazon''s innovation went right for the jugular of any volume- and price-focused retailer selling commodity goods like consumer electronics and household wares.

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Retail Reis Merchandising Download 8

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

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

A laser-sharp strategy is much more practical, productive, and economical. He is also CEO of Max-Ventures, a venture capital and retail consulting firm, and founder and CEO of Max-Wellness, a comprehensive health and wellness retail chain that launched in 2010. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

DISH Networks, the owners since 2011 of video rental giant Blockbuster, announced Wednesday the shuttering of all remaining company-owned retail locations and of Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service. As the disruptor improves its offering, though, the incumbent’s position becomes increasingly fragile. postal service.

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Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. A manufacturer might have had a close working relationship with a STmicroelectronics product distributor , for example, yet they had only a foggy idea of the tertiary vendors who were affiliated with that company. These were followed by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Compliance Fashion Efficiency 117

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. She is a seasoned business professional and author, who brings a wealth of real-world experience and an innovative style to her position at Hammer and Company.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

And Apple's share performance skyrocketed between the time we compiled the data and when he stepped down on August 24, 2011. Jobs' final scorecard for his entire tenure from 1997 to 2011 is: Country-adjusted total shareholder return: 6,682%. Steve Jobs combined creativity with discipline, and innovation with scale.

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Remarkably, the leading challenger is online retailer Amazon, with its Kindle Fire tablet. The innovation game is changing. Delivering great products is no longer sufficient for success. And as the Fire's limited memory, ho-hum processor, and and lack of camera demonstrate, great products may not even be necessary.

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Strategy eBook Library Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

As the argument goes, that’s good for workers, who don’t want to be bored or overwhelmed, and it’s good for retailers, whose biggest cost and revenue driver is typically labor. Our collective research has also shown that retailers really do struggle with scheduling. on Saturdays.

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Software Management Retail How To 9

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." Ron Johnson''s 17-month tenure as J.C. It''s true. That''s just negligent.

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Merchandising Retail Gordon Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 According to chairman and CEO Timothy Smucker, 67, who is now stepping down to hand the jars to his younger brother Richard, 63, "Volume gains in the fruit spreads category were supported by investments in advertising and product innovation." billion in sales. That's a lot of PB&J.

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Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13