Chart Your Course

JULY 24, 2018

This article was originally published by Vital Learning. By being a dynamic leader, and leveraging the strengths of each of these generations, effective managers can turn what seems like an obstacle into a competitive advantage. Closeup portrait of a successful business team laughing together. Above all, communication is key.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

My article was about the significance of anniversaries as important milestones. My articles reflect the Big Picture of Business. Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. Develop and share own philosophies. Digest of Take-Aways From 36 Articles. !

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

“Companies in which leaders at every level nurture a culture where employees can develop a sense of ownership in what they do are the companies that excel.” It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. The Key to Business and Career Success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2024

Employers who successfully navigate these will retain top talent and secure a competitive advantage for themselves. Gartner researchers have identified nine key trends, from new and creative employee benefits to the collapse of traditional career paths, that will impact work this year.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To enhance their effectiveness in this arena, they must become more curious to develop the innovations we require, as well as more eager to adapt their behaviors accordingly. Striving towards intergenerational leadership is key to overcoming these issues and unlocking competitive advantage by enhancing businesses’ capacity for renewal.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2013

These podcasts elaborate on the principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven Professional website. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2013

These podcasts elaborate on the principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven Professional website. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

These podcasts elaborate on the principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven Professional website. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2014

You have now started spinning human feedback loops. Anna Carroll, MSSW, is an organization development consultant, facilitator, coach, and speaker. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. You just finished reading Human Feedback is the Greatest Path to Efficiency ! About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2012

These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2015

The Leadership Development Practitioner as a Change Agent. When leadership development programs are aligned with results-based initiatives or what's important to the organization, it becomes more likely that Leadership Development initiatives are easily measured and supported. He is the author or editor of more than 75 books.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2014

An internship is an important part of your career development strategy. Human resource departments offer these as a means to recruit the best students from the top schools. Develop a great cover letter. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Regardless, this is all valuable insight.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. It is good business to recognize opportunities for practice development. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Actions are always required.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2014

Additionally, within STEM companies themselves, those with STEM degrees are willing to take, and often desirous of, non-STEM jobs to broaden their experience as they seek larger leadership roles; thus, internal competition for this talent is also increasing. Companies Recognize the Need for Programs to Develop and Attract STEM Talent.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. With the development of modern business management solutions, it is easier than ever to stay connected with your teams all over the world. Stay connected with the cloud.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Your healthcare executive resume will be read by not only scientific professionals in medical affairs, research and development, clinical operations, but your resume will also be reviewed by financial, operational, marketing and human resources leaders. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. 7 Steps of Professional Development : 1. Personal Development.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

This is not something that can be conducted alone by internal human resources departments. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Could lean manufacturing have a similar positive impact on jobs in the developing world?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. They worked together to identify the technologies that could improve the company''s competitive advantage versus technologies that were needed to support the business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Improving the in-store experience, promoting omnichannel shopping and fulfillment options, and developing in-person service innovations are avenues that leverage its brand equity and core competencies — and they’re approaches that would put Amazon at a disadvantage.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions. Successfully implementing such a capability could dramatically affect headcount in human resources functions, but also in other functions, such as sales.

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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. How you operate on the inside should be inextricably linked with how you want to be perceived on the outside.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In this new reality, managers will have to become as thoughtful, strategic, and fearless as Beane was to develop new strategies to close the gap between their business aspirations and the talent that is available. In an article Tom Malone, Rob Laubacher and I recently coauthored for HBR, we describe one way to construct work differently.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Achieving sustainable competitive advantage through superior strategic alignment does not happen by accident – it happens by design, or not at all, and it requires a special breed of leadership, which I call enterprise leadership. If that’s the case, you urgently need to address this gap in leadership focus and capability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Offer professional-development opportunities. She breaks down the operational and human resource decisions that make this possible in her HBR article and book The Good Jobs Strategy. Other low-cost retailers, from Costco to Trader Joe’s, have also shown that raising wages can create a competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This makes sense, because the alternative is for behavioral insights to be tried out by individuals or specific departments, and their knowledge and skill are likely to vary: Someone in marketing might use their behavioral knowledge to develop more-effective campaigns, while at the same time someone in HR uses theirs to focus on employee engagement.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. Our human resources department takes care of that. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Can’t change the weather or the world.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Business development. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Prescribe a more competitively advantaged outcome.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

After six months of development, we assess each manager again, and this time the assessments have teeth. Better people will also bring long-lasting competitive advantage in our industry. Accountability. Managers’ bosses see the assessments and start to factor them into promotion and other considerations.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

I recently talked with the Chief Human Resource Officer of a significant player in the insurance industry about this exact topic. In the same vein, we can’t predict the business development sales function to be perfect either. If you can’t get in the field, then sit in on a few quarterly Zoom sales meetings to listen in.

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