The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2023

The use of underdog narratives is a popular leadership tactic that has been proven effective in motivating teams and organizations. Leaders in various industries, such as telecommunications and sports, often employ these narratives to create a compelling story of overcoming adversity and achieving success against the odds.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 19, 2015

In my previous piece, I looked at an underlying theme found among the numerous issues leaders in every industry face today and what this tells us about how we can be more successful in bringing out the best in those we lead. The enthusiastic reaction to the ideas I shared in that article got me thinking about the other piece of this puzzle.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Apparel 100

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 16, 2013

What are the secrets to entrepreneurial success? “Act small, think small” – Scott Hamlin , Co-founder of Looptworks , who makes apparel and accessories that are made by “upcycling” excess manufacturing materials. Leadership' Have an entrepreneurial dream of your own that you are passionate about?

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2012

My original premise for this blog was to share a variety of leadership and branding principles with the current generation of business leaders. Yet every so often, I come across a very successful exception to the rule. In most industries, creating scale and leveraging that scale is the key factor for success. ounce size.

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Reis Brand Apparel Energy 240

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The first lesson of leadership: it is not about you. The essence of leadership is the ability to influence others. And all successful leaders realize what Dale Carnegie explained: “The only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.”. It doesn’t happen in one step.

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Apparel Motivation Influence Quality 88

Coaching Ourselves

MARCH 6, 2019

Gildan is one of the world’s largest vertically-integrated manufacturers of basic apparel with over 50 000 employees worldwide. Gildan uses CoachingOurselves, the approach created by Henry Mintzberg and Phil LeNir, as part of their leadership development program for managers with over 113 participants, in more than 8 countries. _.

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Case Study Globalization Mintzberg Apparel 30

Steve Farber

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And we know his latest venture, men’s sports apparel startup, Qor (pronounced “core”), is already achieving over 30% yearly growth in part because it’s replicating the Athleta culture of caring. Working with people in a vulnerable, heart-centered way leads to shared successes, joys, sorrows, and frustrations.

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Apparel Energy Workshop Uncertainty 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Where was its leadership bench? Because succession planning is one of the most important and consequential functions tasked to any board, we wanted to learn more about what boards were doing. Given the boards'' responsibility for succession planning, one would expect them to give the subject plenty of time and consideration.

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Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For every Apple, there is an Atari, for every Fuji a Polaroid, and for every Zara an American Apparel. Companies in the success trap over-exploit their current business models and fail to renew or grow future growth options. Why does this happen to large companies with a legacy of success? Five steps can help: 1.

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

That’s why CMOs need to develop four types of leadership, which are based loosely on Gartner’s Intelligent Brand Framework. The idea is to identify your power center — which one best represents your natural capabilities — and develop skills to flex across these leadership styles.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business?

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Back in the ‘90s, LEGO had cluttered its corporate structure with the complexity that comes with acquiring a variety of businesses from apparel to theme parks. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

That’s especially true, he adds, when the core business is successful and doing well. One write-in response to our question about obstacles to innovation was, “Leadership ADHD.”) ” Lack of the right strategy or vision (36% of respondents.).

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Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Second, many managers assume they should adopt the best practices of their industry and treat external benchmarking as the established path to success. That’s why the quality and caliber of top leadership is so important. We do not hold up the five acts of leadership as the only path a winning company might follow.

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Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

Judith Goldhaft employed the assistance of fabric designer and fellow hippie gal, Jodi Palladini, to create an apparel design that would permit San Francisco’s homeless women to sell their very own fabric creations. Third, the hippies were masters of re-invention and continuous innovation.

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Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

But there is another leadership role that has arisen in many organizations in recent years: the Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Diverse companies are responding to the digital leadership challenge in different and dynamic ways. In an increasingly digitizing business world, most companies need better digital leadership and coordination.

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CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The other, if you separate success from share price, is simply to assert a memorable number, such as doubling revenues over a five-year period. Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind. Once again this sounds straightforward.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Question : How has social media made it easier for you to be successful at CED? We have our apparel releases planned for the next year, but always take into account ideas people have or suggestions for colors. There are no overnight successes. Small efforts, compounded daily, to create large successes.

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Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 73

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2014

But if The Obstacle Is The Way could have half the success that The 48 Laws of Power has had I''d be thrilled. Then Dov Charney at American Apparel, who taught me everything I know about business today. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Ryan Holiday The Obstacle Is The Way'

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Ryan Apparel Crisis Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum. Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Business leaders, along with the companies they lead, will need to take an active stance, shaping the conditions for future success, rather than merely reacting to twists in the plot. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. We believe a compelling story will require reworking both the plot and the roles of the key actors. Essential background.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The ongoing failure of policy at a global level (with the important exceptions of some successes/workarounds such as new mileage targets for cars and trucks and a carbon tax in Australia ). Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

That “little” privately-held business has grown tremendously since its launch and currently has more than 90 physical retail locations and a highly successful eCommerce business. This principle has always been a priority for the leadership team at Vineyard Vines and it is still top of mind today.

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Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. Adam Pretty/Getty Images. It just does not work.”

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Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

What would this leadership look like over time? What are the greatest predictors of success for a talent management practice? consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., Methodology. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g.,

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Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

An apparel manufacturer kicked off its hackathon with the telephone game, the one where a spoken phrase inevitably gets distorted as a series of players whisper it to each other. In the best cases, user feedback influences the design and provides the ultimate measure of success.

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Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Then China’s President Xi said he’ll be attending the annual bigwig gathering in Davos for the first time, with reports of China’s interest in filling trade gaps left by Brexit and possible leadership gaps on climate left by Trump. Renewables Kept Growing and Getting Cheaper. ” Millennials feel even stronger.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8