Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As a project leader/manager one of your primary responsibilities is to increase the absorptive capacity of the project to organizational and community stakeholders. Team Building & Leadership; Sample Program Category: Management , manager training , problem solving Comments Leave a Reply All rights reserved.

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

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!

Team Building 114

Team Building Case Study Learning-by-Doing Training 114

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.

Price 100

Price CEO Brand Discount 100

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Is the manager fair and impartial in enforcing them? All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Team spirit : Are there opportunities for building and rewarding teamwork into jobs? Do methods of pay help develop team spirit? Discipline : Are the rules seen to be reasonable? Grievances : Are grievances dealt with promptly?

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Team Team Building Training Commitment 124

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 21, 2023

Debbie Laskey: In the CORNER OFFICE section of The New York Times , there was a memorable interview on January 29, 2011, entitled, " Hey, Rock Stars: Take Your Show SomeplaceElse ," conducted by Adam Bryant of Michael Lebowitz, founder and CEO of Big Spaceship, a digital marketing and communications agency. Do you agree with this approach?

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Brand Leadership Marketing Strategy Media 65

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 Posted by: mike The eXponent Leadership Process consists of coaching leaders to determine their capability to work as a manager as well as to determine the capability of direct reports. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

Team Building 132

Team Building Leadership Process Learning-by-Doing 132

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. To read Marshall’s complete biography, click here.

Supply Chain 57

Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

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

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

Establish an agenda for managing time to complete the task/meeting – Teams that do better at managing their time achieve better results. The concept of agendas is critical to better time management, whether the application of the concept is focused on project team work or meetings in general. All rights reserved.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

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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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Before you resign yourself to living in your own not-so-amusing TV show, let me offer some commonsense management advice. I launched a number of successful business ventures, including OfficeMax and my newest business, Max-Wellness, a new and unique health and wellness retail chain.

Motivation 51

Motivation Management How To Retail 51

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. He is the founder of The Potential Project – a leading global provider of corporate based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries. Then return to your work.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. They are usually quick to recognize operational problems and deal with them before they become disasters. Operational meltdowns at midsized companies can take much longer to notice and resolve.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

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

MARCH 2, 2011

Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. McKinsey teams are beavering away in places like the United Arab Emirates and the 'Stans — Turkmenistan, say, or Tajikistan — but they're as likely to be doing operations projects as pure strategy work.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

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. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Is it the clothing retail business? Can you operate weapons? Administration/management. If so, do you understand that business? Can you cook great food? Can you wait tables? Is it the military? Do you understand small unit tactics? You gotta know the business. You gotta have business savvy. Can you organize things?

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Skills Bottom-up Video Blog 44

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. COVID-19 has changed virtually everything, including the way electronics manufacturers operate. It operates simply and efficiently without the need for WiFi, yet its sophisticated inner workings enable it to take stock of its environment and easily move and manipulate items.

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Supply Chain Compliance Fashion Efficiency 117

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. billion to $8.6

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The bullwhip effect is the amplified response to demand signals as one moves “upstream” in the supply chain: from retailers to manufacturers to suppliers to commodity providers. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

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. Those disruptors are right around the corner.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. Google''s buyout of Android also fits into this category, adding the licensing of telecom-operating software to its main business model of contextual advertising. That''s a problem.

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Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Organizations can encourage managers to talk with their direct reports about what aspects of work they find meaningful, and get managers to share their perspectives with employees, too. increase in annual operating profits.

Creativity 15

Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

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.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

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.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’” Purpose might have informed the management of two failed brands – Blockbuster and Radio Shack — differently. The brand died a slow death, beginning when Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and then ultimately when its acquirer, Dish Network, decided to shut down all video rental operations in 2013.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

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. BlueArc’s devices were high-end, but its management believed it needed a mid-priced product to get it through the recession.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 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.”

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. of the U.S.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Big-box retailers, like Best Buy, now have large, fast growing e-commerce businesses. A few years ago, community managers did not exist.

Technology 14

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. And in a departure from attitudes five or 10 years ago, most employees care more about ensuring that the business operations themselves are sustainable than they do about philanthropic activities, as shown in this chart.

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These approaches show how companies are going beyond simply establishing an outpost in Silicon Valley to creating, instituting and sustaining different “operating models.”. Honda launched Honda Silicon Valley Lab (HSVL) in 2011 to partner with talented entrepreneurs and tech companies to create cutting edge products and services.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment.

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

There is no fee charged to retailers who use it and no exorbitant interest rates lying in wait for consumers. For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. retail businesses lose about $40 billion annually because of the theft of cash alone. It’s safe from hackers. How can this be?

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The managers who express this idea in our simulated competitive games aren’t thinking of some simple shelving-units-on-wheels format – the kind of oversized salesman’s bag that’s been hauled out to prospects for decades. It has made me think I should consider it more closely, and share it more broadly.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 8