Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Question : Can work ethic be taught? In that regard, he taught me a “work ethic.”

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Books Leadership Ethics Morale 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2015

In a survey conducted by a BIG benefits management company (a management and human resource consulting firm), they asked 365 CEO’s and sales management executives, “What are the three key factors that separate high performing sales professionals from moderate to low performing sales professionals?”. PLEASE HELP ME.

Loyalty 50

Loyalty Open-book Customer Loyalty Ethics 50

HR Digest

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Gender equality, workplace behavior and ethics, and stringent human resource policies and cases of sexual harassment have rendered the infamous ‘50s and 60s gatherings largely obsolete. The company sent a questionnaire to 150 human resource executives across the United States in 2017 about their annual holiday party plans.

Human Resources 64

Human Resources Insurance Media Policies 64

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it.

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Top management has as a priority the need to develop and practice People development, skills and team building responsibilities.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Ethics Information & technology Innovation'

Ethics 8

Ethics Zimbardo Explicit Knowledge Kahneman 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become ‘management.’ The management that takes steps to ‘fix themselves’ rather than always projecting. Organizational purpose, vision, ethics, long-term growth. ’ Approach your career as a body of work.

Mentor 50

Mentor Succession Benchmarking Long-term 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. Customer Focused Management goes beyond just the dynamics of service and quality.

Article 50

Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

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. Along with fixing the sales culture, the bank will have to address these critical management issues to prevent the next scandal.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team. Outside of 'think tanks' for company executive committees, full-scope education does not occur. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Writing for the Harvard Business Review in 1988, Peter Drucker predicted that in 20 years the average organization would have slashed the number of management layers by half and shrunk its managerial ranks by two-thirds. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. in 2001 to 16% in 2015.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

You’ve managed the same team for the past five years — then one day you find out that your most successful employee uses cognitive-enhancing drugs on the job. Meanwhile, the world of management remains stunningly silent. But sooner or later executives will have to confront the issue of these drugs. billion in 2015.

Ethics 15

Ethics Stress Policies Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Much less attention is paid, however, to the manner in which Buffett manages the company itself. This is somewhat surprising, given that his management system is very different from those of other publicly traded companies. We found the following three things: Managers are highly trusted and given considerable autonomy.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. The marketing industry will be no exception. The good news is that, as an industry, we are starting to see meaningful progress on both fronts.

Marketing 8

Marketing Policies Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). Such organizations do so by prioritizing the things that drive the most value—customers and talent, data, and products—and then they are disciplined in their execution.

Organization 8

Organization SPM Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Additionally, nearly 175 executives recently launched CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion , the first CEO-led, and largest ever, commitment to cultivate a trusting and safe environment where all ideas and dialogue are welcomed and where employees feel comfortable discussing race and inclusion amid a flood of escalating tensions.

Diversity 9

Diversity Politics Survey Incubator 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. At normal companies, managers look to their attorneys to advise them on how to keep their business within the law.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree™ and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. Managers, by default, see 'band-aid surgery' as the only remedy for problems.but only when problems are so evident as to require action. Arrogant attitudes.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree™ and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. Managers, by default, see “band-aid surgery” as the only remedy for problems… but only when problems are so evident as to require action.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. This tool becomes advantageous for technical communicators, project managers, and engineers doing contract work to both promote their skills and expertise, educate potential clients, as well as maintain multiple projects and clients.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

James McQuivey, principal analyst and vice president at Forrester, suggested that executives should sit up and pay attention to HoloLens. McQuivey, the author of Digital Disruption , agreed to answer this skeptic’s questions about HoloLens, why it matters, and why executives should pay attention. This one comes to mind.).

Forrester 8

Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

For more on data ethics, go here.). But Takata’s example is one of the many clear signs that managers who hone their visualization skills may increasingly find themselves in a position to change emphasis in a chart, leave out data, or add some data. — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) December 29, 2015.

PR 8

PR Ethics Engineering Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. Making these decisions requires that directors have expertise, exercise informed judgment, and be guided by an ethical compass. Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company. Consider what Aetna faced in 2012. million to the U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8