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How Supermarket Donations To Food Banks Help Their Bottom Line

The Horizons Tracker

Most supermarkets today promote the charitable work they do in terms of donations to community food banks. Research from Northeastern highlights, however, how such seemingly altruistic gestures can in fact benefit the bottom line of the supermarkets. This frees up the shelf space for fresher and higher-priced items.

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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

A recent conversation with a community bank CEO focused on his vision for the company. A common effect-based conversation among managers when results that don’t meet expectations starts out with, “Revenue is 5% below target, so let’s do everything we can to drive it up to make plan”. Which customers did we focus on?

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Should We All Be Agile?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, the authors argue that business process modularity is a crucial element of success with Agile or when innovations are built from the bottom-up with the help of practical input and feedback from customers.

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Making the Most of Your Quarantine Time

Lead Change Blog

We’ve been able to do most of our banking without a trip to the local branch. We struggled to keep up. Bottom Line. For years, we’ve had technology that would enable us to do some things differently. We’ve been able to buy all kinds of things online and have them delivered. Now we have no choice.

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Prestige Underpins Employee Perks

The Horizons Tracker

They discovered that those who were on the outside looking in were more likely to invest in employee perks than those companies bobbing along at the bottom of the index. Thankfully, it’s quite probable that lower-status firms won’t need to break the bank in order to provide perks that matter to employees.

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Beware the Brutally Honest Workplace

Michael Lee Stallard

When cholesterol builds up, it clogs the flow of blood, which leads to a heart attack. When knowledge traps build up in a team, department or organization, it results in poor decision-making, which in time contributes to managerial failure (the organizational equivalent of a heart attack).

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Why P2P Lending Makes Complete Sense for Startups

Strategy Driven

This is an ideal scenario for startups as banks have extensive eligibility requirements and take a long time to approve a loan. Also, startup owners who do not have good credit but a healthy cashflow find it tough to get loans from credit unions or banks. Being completely online (unlike banks), P2P platforms operate on low overheads.