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Financial Fluency and A Leadership Opportunity

Great Leadership By Dan

While speaking this last week to one of the largest apparel companies in the country, I led an exercise that became an “Aha!” After a half-hour of speaking with the group, I asked them all to participate in an experiential exercise. moment for many in the room. In most companies it is easy to create a model of revenues and production.

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3 Ways to Develop Winning Team Spirit

Michael Lee Stallard

Today, Varsity Brands includes Varsity Spirit, BSN Sports (sports apparel, footwear, and equipment) and Herff Jones (school graduation and achievement products). Witness the Impact: Participate on the Front Lines. Over more than four decades, he led Varsity to combined sales exceeding $1.5

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5 Convincing Benefits of Sustainable Business Practices

Strategy Driven

The company persuades and empowers its employees to participate in the green programs and become part of the change. Thus, they are working towards making their apparel and accessories more sustainable. Retaining a valued workforce is thus also less of a hassle if the company has a positive image in the market.

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GILDAN Case Study : Using CoachingOurselves Globally

Coaching Ourselves

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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How Consumer Brands Can Connect with Customers in a Changing Retail Landscape

Harvard Business Review

The accessories and apparel designer uses in-store radio-frequency identification to send clothing items to dressing rooms, helps customers choose different styles and sizes, and shows stock availability in stores and online. But brick-and-mortar retail doors are closing, especially for apparel, as shoppers take their business online.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. They have been displacers, not disrupters.

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Marketers Need to Stop Focusing on Loyalty and Start Thinking About Relevance

Harvard Business Review

This experience creates a sense of pride for customers who want to participate in a high-end cycling experience (given the pricing and the tendency for instructors to be young and fit). Instead of thinking of itself merely as a sports apparel manufacturer, the company has purposefully developed a “connected fitness” ecosystem.

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