Lead Change Blog

MAY 27, 2016

A struggling business after 50 years, it re-invented itself after almost going bankrupt when the owner and staff decided to make the company survive by infusing fun into their work. Why do some companies have fun during meetings but carry on otherwise stoic daily routines? Can smiling and fun be a core value?

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LDRLB

MARCH 21, 2012

Just look at some of these essay titles: “Does Human Resources have a future?” “‘Don’t send me one of those typical human resource people'': A true life adventure story” (Harold Johnson). “Human resources in the future: An obstacle or a champion of globalization? .

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  You probably also know that I have a passion for entrepreneurship and working with start-up companies. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. License. .  Enjoy!  Enjoy! .  Enjoy!

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 28, 2016

As a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources, the highest award that can be given to an HR professional in the US, I’ve been asked to speak at many HR conventions around the world. I believe that companies should do whatever they can to create an environment that builds employee engagement. What is the difference?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 19, 2016

Every company and leader wants the answer to this “Now what?” As a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources, the highest award that can be given to an HR professional in the US, I’ve been to many HR conventions. This would be great, but the company was headed towards a record $17 billion loss!

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Surviving Leadership

JUNE 29, 2017

Companies are constantly looking for differentiators. It will make or break your company! Whether or not you personally like Southwest Airlines (and I love them, so there), you can’t argue with their success in a tough industry. It pushes the company forward. I thought we’d come further than that.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A study conducted by the University of Michigan’s Workplace Research Foundation also found that increasing investments in employee engagement by 10 percent can increase your company’s profits by $2,400 per employee per year. Companies like Google, who are keen on keeping their talent, already know this fact and act accordingly.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 5, 2015

Airlines, telecoms, and credit card companies promise customer satisfaction all the time; do they deliver it? Successful companies don’t stumble upon insight. Those who embrace the notion of ‘keep it simple’ and ‘do less, better’ come out on top. Promising service is easy.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. How do they do it? Insight Center.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Utilizing strengths and the contacts I had made to write the book, I scaled my practice to service women in business—the companies that support them and the companies that they own. Being timid leads nowhere.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs today who practice digital bricolage can construct amazing companies and organizations from existing pieces, many of which offer capabilities once available only to large businesses. Take a company like Airbnb. Other fast-rising digital companies like Uber have employed similar approaches. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

In relentless pursuit of lower costs and greater throughput, they might miss the fact that advantages in storytelling, judgment, and other human strengths are much harder for competitors to replicate. In airlines, for example, seat pricing and crew scheduling optimization systems are practically part of the woodwork.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The pandemic has led to many companies announcing layoffs and job cuts of their furloughed employees. Recent weeks have seen a spate of layoffs being announced by the retail, beverages and the airlines industries totaling nearly 200,000 in number. More than 400,000 airline workers have been fired, or furloughed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. Higher-ambition CEOs know who they are, and how they lead and run their companies reflects their personal values and principles.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Just a few months ago he was the company's fastest-rising star, promoted, he thought, to bring fresh thinking to the firm's self-service kiosk business. Tom had joined the company just a year before, at age 28, and he immediately set about getting noticed. map with each of the company's five sales regions. Tom interrupted.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It’s proving to be an eventful year for AirAsia, the Kuala Lumpur-based airline that has emerged as Asia’s most successful low-cost carrier in recent times. Doing so provides focus, reduces complexity, and enables companies to collaborate with different partners to meet their goals. AirAsia’s experience is instructive.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2011

As IBM celebrates its 100th birthday, many observers are rightly calling attention to the many strategic changes the company put itself through to remain relevant amidst dramatic technological and economic change. According to the company, a full 40% percent of IBM's 400,000 global employees now work remotely.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Schulman: The global head of human resources at American Express was on the board at Virgin Mobile, where I was CEO. American Express CEO Ken Chenault describes your unit as a start-up within the company. The power of being a startup within a big company is that you can take advantage of those resources and assets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. It doesn’t matter if your company culture is friendly or competitive, nurturing or analytical.

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