Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Stop Enabling your High Cost Producers – Like your Exemplars, the High Cost Producers on your team produce good results, but they incur high costs along the way. Victor Prince: As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the U.S. They may cause a lot of problems and ill will with others as they steamroll their way to results.

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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. Increased Reliability.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2015

For nearly three decades, Ruth led the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations’ (INPO) Information Technology Division as Director, Computer Systems and Telecommunications and Director, Information Technology and Data Services. nuclear power industry which reduced costs with economies of scale, shared content, and secure student data.

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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. There simply was not enough hiring taking place for Millennials to make their mark on organizations, and so the dynamics in the workplace and how these companies operated really didn’t change.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting initiatives. Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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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).

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Make-good efforts cost more on the back end than doing things right on the front end. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Research shows the by-product costs of poor quality are high for any business, up to 40 percent. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). … Intermountain has been identified as a low-cost, high-quality provider.1 However, our payments also fell—often even further than our operating costs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2016

In addition to costing dearly, these practices send the message that bad performance will be rewarded. Most of my clients have a list of espoused values (what we say we believe) and a notion of operating values (how things are done around here). Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. She can be reached in St.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Booth exhibitions at trade shows are viable and cost-effective sales tools to: Achieve new customers, in order to grow and increase profits. Trade shows generate sales leads at a lower cost per contact than a typical sales call. Research shows that industrial sales calls costing $252 to reach a prospect, with 4.6

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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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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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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. The company uses direct sales from its web site; social media; fan engagement; and weekly updates to its Android-based operating system to get ahead of rivals. India provides Xiaomi with a learning opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

That leaves most organizations lacking a clear total workforce perspective and no integrated strategy to engage workers at the right time, cost, and contractual arrangement. Their goal is to meet time-bound work requirements at minimal cost and risk, relying on suppliers for selection and development.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

And when misclassification is adopted as a business strategy by some companies, it quickly undermines other, more responsible employers who face costs disadvantages arising from compliance with labor standards and responsibilities. All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images. Our results.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Leadership begins with sharing a vision with many people in numerous communities from diverse walks of life. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. I like to think of Project ECHO as an operating system, akin to Apple’s. So he conceived of and launched Project ECHO. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. This shift means that PE firms’ approaches to talent and leadership must also change.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Before joining Facebook as a security engineer in 2015, I worked in industries from consulting to manufacturing to retail. I observed that leaders often treat security as a liability cost — until the company experiences a security breach, after which increased support is a given. Driving Financial Goals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio. It starts with leadership support. In Year One, we have avoided 1.5 We will convene third parties and industry players.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. In turn, the company is achieving lower levels of employee and customer churn, and correspondingly lower employee hiring and customer acquisition costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Cyberattacks cost companies an estimated half a trillion dollars in damages every year. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction. In 2015 Chrysler announced a recall for 1.4 Secure-by-Design. That needs to change.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Bundled payments in health care have gained favor because they can reduce costs and help improve outcomes. In essence, episodic bundles cover the cost of a patient’s care from start to finish—all the procedures, devices, tests, drugs and services a patient will need for, say, a knee replacement or back surgery.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The cost of solar and wind are falling rapidly ; in fact, a few days before the new EPA announcement, Xcel Energy, which provides power to the American heartland, revealed that it was acquiring extensive wind and solar assets, “all at prices below fossil fuel alternatives.” The program delivered $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

Those trains routinely operate at speeds of 150 to 200 miles per hour, and in 2012, the average deviation from schedule was a miniscule 36 seconds. Delayed or cancelled flights cost the U.S. I put aside work on a book about leadership to tackle the infrastructure issue. Since then, other countries surpassed the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

This translates into savings because the company spends less on wages and other labor-related costs. In the 1990s and 2000s, leadership’s focus on efficiency produced solid results. Starting with the quarter ending March 31, 2015 , however, S&P 500 earnings began falling, and earnings growth has remained negative ever since.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. Many have speculated since about failures of its leadership under its bullish former CEO, Fred Goodwin.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

It doesn’t have one center of organization and imagination looking out at the far horizon to inspire and guide all of the component parts to get to a place together that none operating independently could ever get to on its own. It has the Council on Foundations, which provides leadership and opportunity to philanthropic organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. They’re now working on version 8, which they will produce in October, and version 10, with better lighting, and there is a design projected for 2015. For this year, we’re not going to worry about the product and program costs in calculating the payback.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Fourth, a conventional company might try to reduce costs across the board by going lean everywhere. But the companies we studied cut costs to grow stronger. That’s how Lego went from losing a million dollars a day in 2004 to being the world’s largest toy company in 2015. Lego cut these businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. Indeed, Ukraine’s troubles offered an opportunity to build the leadership capacity of my management team.

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