Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar ! Click here to cancel reply.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Within the context of business, mindfulness offers simple – but extremely effective – ways for leaders and their teams to increase productivity. In today’s fast-paced, high-pressure marketplace, leaders are continually looking for ways to improve productivity both for themselves and their teams. Her clients include Yahoo!7,

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

We’re having a giveaway for a $75 gift certificate to any product (out of the millions of items available) from CSN Stores. This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers.

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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. Where do you fit?

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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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Your Voice of Encouragement

MAY 11, 2011

At the 2011 Glazer-Kennedy SuperConference, I had the privilege of meeting Kathy Ireland and hearing her address the audience of 1200 entrepreneurs. Billion dollar company selling 45,000 products in 50 countries. Billion dollar company selling 45,000 products in 50 countries. I know I did. And I was surprised at how wrong I was.

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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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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Twitter Follow TeamBuildingNY Search Categories books (21) Buffalo NY (121) challenge by choice (25) Challenge Course (19) College (40) Corporate Team Building (181) creativity (34) Environmental (3) experiential theory (117) Generation Y (48) images (80) innovation (46) Leadership (185) Leadership Agenda (23) leadership coaching (79) Management (124) (..)

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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. Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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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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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Twitter Follow TeamBuildingNY Search Categories books (21) Buffalo NY (121) challenge by choice (25) Challenge Course (19) College (40) Corporate Team Building (181) creativity (34) Environmental (3) experiential theory (117) Generation Y (48) images (80) innovation (46) Leadership (185) Leadership Agenda (23) leadership coaching (79) Management (124) (..)

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Establish roles & responsibilities + discuss what each person ‘brings to the table’ – Understanding the various roles and responsibilities of the team is critical to success. One is the strategic leader and the other is the team leader. Oct 2010 Another great post I would add 2 others items.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. Retail has entered the era of Big Data. The biggest retailers are investing accordingly.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Only once you are shaken out of you dogmatic slumber can you accept different criteria for your illusions.

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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. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast ! Click here to cancel reply.

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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. Both this success and the failure stem from the same insight about consumer behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The Future of Retail. Retailers face several challenges as they enter the 2011 holiday season. Many retailers are responding with across-the-board price promotion strategies. One such category was over-the-counter family planning products, better known as birth control.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

New technologies and socioeconomic trends are reshaping the retail marketplace. The IBM Institute for Business Value recently surveyed over 30,000 people in three mature and three growth markets to discover what consumers will want from retailers in the future. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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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. Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. Penney's new CEO on how to create an irresistible retail experience.

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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. The most successful brands provide an “experience”—an emotional engagement between a company and its customers. External and internal brand alignment.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. 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. Improve productivity. Lead to breed success. We want to come out strong.”

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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?". Leaders need to look past Wall Street-pleasing adjacencies or new businesses, and instead make sure their core strategy will result in long-term success. Earning the right to win is never a cakewalk.

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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. It is because of this transparency, honesty and respect for its clients that Santander is seeing so much current success.

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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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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

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb. Further, successful reform would reduce the phenomenon of ‘job lock,’ in which workers are reluctant to leave a job with employer-sponsored health insurance out of fear that they will not be able to find affordable coverage.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As you take some time to reflect, relax, and renew before the year to come, we offer you our most popular multimedia content from the year that was: podcasts, videos, slideshows, and infographics that we hope help you chart a successful course in 2012. Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In fact, it matters as much or more than a number of other factors associated with successful businesses, like technology adoption. The plants that have adopted these monitoring and incentives-based management practices were far more productive, innovative, and profitable. And while this study focused on U.S.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2018

For companies in industries with razor-thin margins , as in the grocery business, responding to these dynamics may help increase the volume on which success depends. After they finished making their choices, they were shown a photo of a three-pack of chewing gum in a retail display. What might our results mean for retailers?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Is it the clothing retail business? The world isnt wired to make you successful. People who want to be successful should get serious work about developing themselves in all four of these areas. The business. Is it the restaurant business? If so, do you understand that business? Can you cook great food? Can you wait tables?

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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

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. He learned both industries under high-risk conditions where his own wealth was at stake and success highly uncertain. 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. Fault Line #1: At the Top.

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