HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. Mining automation market will reach $3.29 The US mining company is also using other mining automated technologies to lower production cost for an ounce of gold to US$700. billion by 2023. million ounces of gold.

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Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Coaching Tip

APRIL 15, 2015

-->Andy Grinsfelder, --> vice president of sales and marketing for the Buffalo, N.Y.-based The automation of the job application process, combined with powerful data tools and inexpensive online software, have led to falling costs, more accurate results and a surge in use. Source: The Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015.

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Self-aware Directory Software Reference 70

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The following blog post is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. And while the dynamics of the talent market have changed over time, the impact of this change is now upon us in full force. Did we fall asleep? labor force ( Pew Research Center).

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Resources Talent Management Rogers Constraint 52

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. The more energy we deliver, the lower will be the unit cost of electricity.” It was 200 gigawatts and reached 370 by 2015.

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Project Letter Trends Wilde 67

Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC announced the launch of an online business performance assessment forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help executives and managers better assess the performance of their business operations. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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ExactHire - Leadership

DECEMBER 22, 2016

It has freed companies from the constraints of their locations and endless paperwork, and helped them to become more robust, flexible, and cost-effective. Research in 2015, stated that 37% of all small businesses had adopted cloud computing, and by 2020, this could rise to 78%. Reduced Cost.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

This is pain avoidance up the ladder at the cost of pain induction everywhere else. It’s not leadership. One of your most promising managers has just led a two-year late-to-market death march on a brand extension that has launched and failed. Your competitor is getting nothing but a disingenuous cost center.

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Performance Review Review Learning-by-Doing Document 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

While sales objectives are most common, trade shows may also be behavior, product, distribution or marketing oriented. Booth exhibitions at trade shows are viable and cost-effective sales tools to: Achieve new customers, in order to grow and increase profits. Perform informal market research. Keep labor costs to a minimum.

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How To Follow-up Participative Objective 50

Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Here’s a sample of how bad things really are: The National Automobile Dealers Association’s 2015 Dealership Workforce Study (the most current study of its kind) found that car sales consultants had the highest turnover at 72 percent annually (non-luxury turnover was 80 percent, luxury turnover was 48 percent). How can they afford not to?

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Automotive Industry Sample Training 40

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

New technologies and new leadership styles are needed to succeed and win. Today, Drew’s heart to help business owners leverage the influence of their business platform for eternal impact is at the core of Acumen which he founded late in 2015. For example; Knowledge may change as times change, right? Bad company corrupts good morals.

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Cooper Groupthink Leadership Styles Servant Leader 51

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2016

And yet we continue assuming the bottom line is about minimizing costs and maximizing profit. The costs of degrading and ignoring employees and making customers conform to our money-saving practices cost us high turnover, a paucity of fresh ideas and new leaders, and the need to hire more supervisory managers to handle the fallout.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2015

SECOND FAILURE: The sales process is at odds with you AND the market. FEAR of FAILURE: The salesperson thinks it will cost them sales. No proof that the system or process actually works in your market. Whatever the strategies are, they MUST be state-of-the art and state-of-the-market. It’s too much of a hassle.

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System Process Open-book Customer Loyalty 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Make-good efforts cost more on the back end than doing things right on the front end. Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Research shows the by-product costs of poor quality are high for any business, up to 40 percent.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Cost containment is one (but not the only) factor of company operations. Business Success Checklist. About the Author.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

THE SECRET: These big pacesetter corporations have discovered that by partnering with smaller, specialized companies they are able to obtain the critical skills they need to gain a competitive advantage – thus paving the way for innovation and increased market share. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Competitive Advantage Trends Bottom-up Loyalty 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2015

And yet we continue assuming the bottom line is about minimizing costs and maximizing profit. The costs of degrading and ignoring employees and making customers conform to our money-saving practices cost us high turnover, a paucity of fresh ideas and new leaders, and the need to hire more supervisory managers to handle the fallout.

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Bottom-up Conference Cost Article 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

If you're an experienced professional, it can be tough to find a job in today's market. The market dynamics that pushed her out of a job were happening across the whole marketplace for her profession. As a result, many companies cut costs in those areas, just as they outsourced manufacturing decades ago. Find a market niche.

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Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 15

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Return on leadership. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Many Happy Returns : Return on training. Especially for front line people.

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ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Over the past 18 months, Sergey’s experience has been echoed in offices in Ukraine, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and many other emerging markets that have faced substantial currency depreciation due to the drop in commodity prices and the flow of capital to the U.S. Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g.,

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Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

And yet we continue assuming the bottom line is about minimizing costs and maximizing profit. The costs of degrading and ignoring employees and making customers conform to our money-saving practices cost us high turnover, a paucity of fresh ideas and new leaders, and the need to hire more supervisory managers to handle the fallout.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Active Listening Conference Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Much has been written about the troubling lack of women in leadership roles generally and in health care in particular. In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Positioning Leadership Health Care Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Europe is at the top of your risk list for 2015. You look at Podemos in Spain, with elections coming up in 2015. And because Europe is the world’s largest single common market, all of this redounds very negatively to the global scene. The firm has just published its annual assessment of Top Risks.

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Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2015

The cool part is it costs (almost) nothing. here are some of the small business, internet, AND business social media value-based messaging and marketing elements I use to transfer my messages. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. And these are habits that create attraction. Real attraction. Value attraction.

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Media Video Follow-up Customer Loyalty 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Information, when used to influence or sell, has cost us untold loss in business and relationships. Conventional sales, marketing, training, coaching, and leadership models use sharing and gathering information at their core. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. It actually causes resistance.

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Information Resistance System Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Its market value of $46 billion (as of June 2015) is larger than that of Uber, Snapchat, or even Palantir. Last year, Xiaomi overtook Samsung to become the leader in the Chinese market. While the Chinese market is close to saturation with over 70% smartphone penetration, the corresponding number for India is less than 20%.

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Price Globalization Business Model Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. emissions from electricity generators fell 20% from 2007 to 2015, while emissions from other sectors fell more modestly. emissions from electricity generators fell 20% from 2007 to 2015, while emissions from other sectors fell more modestly.

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Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is elegantly logical: Expenses must be justified for each new budget period based on demonstrable needs and costs, as opposed to the more common method of using last year’s budget as your starting point, then adjusting up or down. Who would argue that a business should not eliminate unjustifiable costs?

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Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

becoming the second largest smartphone market in the world. billion in 2015. In 2015 alone the country attracted $9 billion in venture capital and was home to four “unicorns” — privately held ventures valued in excess of a billion dollars. Although only one-fifth of its 1.3 The evidence continues.

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Price Globalization Forrester Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Of the many contributions Jack Welch has made to business wisdom, one of his most famous was “Be #1 or #2 in every market.” General Mills actually grew from #2 to #1 in market share the last few years. But the cereal category declined $4 billion dollars from 2000 to 2015, so it didn’t matter.

Strategy 9

Strategy Mass Marketing Business Model Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10, and generated 50% more earnings (defined by market capitalization).

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Company Ethics Automotive Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Like its American compatriot Ford Motor Company , GM’s market share in India has always been in the single digits, but recently Ford has reported rising monthly sales of 36% in India. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Unlike Bentley or Rolls-Royce, GM is a mass-market car company in the U.S.

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CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

But if ASEAN businesses are going to capitalize on this new scale, they must contend with a scarcity of available leadership talent in the region. And more complexity will come with the creation of the ASEAN Economic Community at the end of 2015. Make long-term career plans, but remain open to possibilities.

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Leadership Globalization Long-term Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Gayathri Vasudevan , a 2015 “ Entrepreneur of the Year ” in India, is a cofounder of LabourNet Services , which provides training for the unskilled. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder.

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Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Several studies (including this one ) have shown that doctors want to be led by other doctors; they trust physician leaders to make the right decisions about redesigning health care delivery and balancing quality and cost. The second is, it can reduce physician turnover (and thus the cost of recruiting) and boost morale.

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Training Health Care Management 360-Degree Feedback 10