Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

I took over a supply chain team just a few months before the largest sales day of the year…Black Friday. In fact they were all burned out in their careers fried, fizzled, and done. Burnout is Impacting Your Team and Costing You Money Right Now. How can they look at their current role as part of their future career path?

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Execution Stress Supply Chain Absenteeism 251

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I began my sales career in the late 1970s when there were no personal computers or mobile telephones. But companies still need to fix broken systems, such as a supply chain issue, and obey compliance issues and federal and state regulations, such as for OSHA, EPA, SEC, and OFEC. My History in Enterprise Sales.

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Dunning Supply Chain CPA Compliance 100

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. He began his career at the U.S. He started his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015.

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Human Resources Globalization Resources Diversity 469

HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

Through Altman’s words, we gain a deeper understanding of the human cost of progress and the ethical dilemmas that arise when powerful technology outpaces our ability to understand and control it. The discourse on employee well-being takes on new dimensions with Anthony Horton’s perspective.

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CEO Altman McCarthy Supply Chain 52

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Does your brand command a pricing premium, or force you into being a low cost provider?

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2020

If an idea or industry doesn’t light a fire inside of you, then avoid it at all costs. You could also study health management, operations management, global leadership, or supply chain & enterprise resource planning. To kickstart your idea, here are 10 helpful points to help with starting a business that will succeed.

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Supply Chain How To Brand Audience 65

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

If an idea or industry doesn’t light a fire inside of you, then avoid it at all costs. You could also study health management, operations management, global leadership, or supply chain & enterprise resource planning. To kickstart your idea, here are 10 helpful points to help with starting a business that will succeed.

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Supply Chain How To Brand Audience 68

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

By becoming SQF certified, you’re demonstrating your commitment to providing your supply chain and clients with products of the highest quality. SQF Certification Costs. The process of achieving SQF certification comes at a cost, both in terms of time and money. The costs of hiring an SQF consultant can vary.

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How To Supply Chain Document Licensing 65

QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

Even more amazing is the fact that for one kid, the cost of a nutritious mid day meal for one full year is only Rs. How do they achieve this sort of scale at such low cost? They collect some key metrics including cost per meal and constantly look for ways to optimize it. 600 (or ~$13). Truly remarkable! Don’t Kill It!

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Quality Innovation NGO Supply Chain 155

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 2, 2010

We do this by adapting techniques that are already well known from supply-chain management. What does it cost us? What will it cost us in each case? The idea of having a "deep bench" of talent costs us money. Once we know which cost is greater, then we plan accordingly. A deep bench is inventory.

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Attrition Talent Management Human Capital Supply Chain 107

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Coaching Tip

JUNE 2, 2011

In the mid-1970s, the GM bean counters combined the styling and design departments to reduce costs. As I read the Detroit newspaper that morning, I thought just maybe this car guy, who had worked for BMW, Ford, and Chrysler during his career, might be the right leader to save GM.

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Automotive Supply Chain Industry Engineering 95

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

In terms of solutions, Ann emphasised the need for employers to promote women proportionately through the ranks, offer flexible working solutions for those on career breaks and create sponsorship programs that cater to women from diverse backgrounds. She discussed the issue on LBC News with Martin Stanford.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. Cost cutting and process improvements always have their place, but on their own accord don't constitute a sustainable business model.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

In 2000, Ambani thought big about critical capabilities for the future core of his business and built an integrated petrochemical complex designed to serve a full 25% of the giant Indian market, with technology and scale that gave it a 30% cost advantage over his regional competitors. How did Verghese do it?

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Tough Supply-Chain Choices. Suddenly, companies and consumers across the world are finding themselves in a moral quandary: How can you make (or purchase) clothing cheaply without compromising supply-chain ethics? I Would Give This Five Stars, But. Why Women Aren''t Interested in Tech Jobs Fortune. Just a myth, apparently.

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Supply Chain Health Care Letter Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Two major forces are driving this clean label world: (1) technology-driven transparency about products and their supply chains, and (2) Millennials, who are regularly demanding good behavior from the companies they buy from and work for. But Millennial consumers aren’t the only ones driving the transparency train.

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Supply Chain Brand Metrics Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. Education is critical in creating career mobility and equality of opportunity, which are at least as important as, and closely tied to, income gaps.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

The potential to improve customer service while lowering costs makes this one of the most exciting areas of opportunity. Smoother supply chains. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2018

Every leader has to make tough decisions that have consequences for their organizations, their reputation, and their career. For example, perhaps your plants have been running at near capacity for a while and there have been occasional hiccups in your supply chain. Seeing these costs will push you out of avoidance.

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Uncertainty How To Supply Chain Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Nike subsequently became an innovator in supply chain accountability and promulgated a rigorous supplier code of conducts, accompanied by third-party factory inspections. Internal advocates for safety and labor rights in the supply chain have become powerful contenders within Nike.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In most fields we add value in the early stages of our careers by getting things done. But the pacesetting style can also carry a high cost – Goleman notes that it “destroys climate [and] many employees feel overwhelmed by the pacesetter’s demands.” We’re fast, we’re efficient, and we do high-quality work.

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Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Since joining the Harvard Business School in 2007 (after a long career at IBM, Kodak, Silicon Graphics, and other companies), I have visited hundreds of factories. Making parts for an iPhone is a challenging mix of materials science, mechanical engineering, precision fabrication, and managing mind-boggling complexity in the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. And it's not only white-collar, college-driven careers that will suffer rapid skills obsolescence. Companies are increasingly more concerned about their human capital than about business issues like sourcing, supply chain and location.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

But they’re also increasingly available through other venues that individuals can access on their own at a much lower cost. No career paths absolutely require an MBA—it’s an optional degree and is nothing like a JD, an MD or the other credentials that professions such as law and medicine make mandatory.

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Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Most parents can also save on childcare costs if they can arrange their schedules to be at home when their children are out of school. They’re most successful when they have the everyday flexibility they need to meet the demands of their professional life and accomplish the things they identify as priorities outside of their career.”

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Supply Chain Policies Insurance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Publishers must therefore rebuild their cost structure by doing such things as “moving to a less fancy office and lowering [managers’] salaries.” Management moved him around the company to the point where, according to a former colleague, "He still has a job — but he doesn''t have a career."

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Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

How much does it cost you when your employees are chatting with recruiters from other organizations, polishing up their LinkedIn pages, or just networking with employees at rival organizations? Your pivotal talent today may seem safely insulated in a cocoon of traditional employment and HR practices like rewards, careers, and culture.

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Industry Supply Chain Engineering Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

If a leader is committed to lifting others up and making the workplace better, we have a special opportunity for them to get the book at no cost (really!) for a limited time. Since we started, we’ve given away almost 3,400 copies to amazing trailblazers looking to learn and grow, and there’s still time to participate by using this link.

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Books Leadership Open-book Supply Chain 103

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

We analyzed this as a case of defective design, probably the result of poor cost analysis. The sight of gas pumps whose nozzles were covered with bags was a case of poor demand forecasting within the supply chain. And it might be good for your career. At another point in the trip, their $8 headsets broke at the plug.

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Case Study TQM Supply Chain Brand 8

Eric Jacobson

MAY 29, 2022

If a leader is committed to lifting others up and making the workplace better, we have a special opportunity for them to get the book at no cost (really!) for a limited time. Since we started, we’ve given away almost 3,400 copies to amazing trailblazers looking to learn and grow, and there’s still time to participate by using this link.

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Books Leadership Open-book Supply Chain 105

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the biggest challenges employers and HR faced in 2019 is helping people adjust to AI, robotics, and other forms of automation through retraining and career changes. The result is often a longer vacancy, higher sourcing costs, and lost productivity. What spurred your interest and passion for the topic?

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Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We designed a data center that was 38% more energy efficient and that cost 24% less to build than a traditional data center. By instituting environmental impact reductions, we gained important cost efficiencies. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. We need both.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Your ability to build trust has a profound effect on business results because trust affects two measurable outcomes: speed and cost. When trust goes down (in a relationship, on a team, in an organization, or with a partner or customer), speed goes down and cost goes up. As each target was met, trust went up, and costs went down.

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Supply Chain Commitment Report Skills 8

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 24, 2022

If a leader is committed to lifting others up and making the workplace better, we have a special opportunity for them to get the book at no cost (really!) for a limited time. Since we started, we’ve given away almost 3,400 copies to amazing trailblazers looking to learn and grow, and there’s still time to participate by using this link.

Books 65

Books Leadership Open-book Supply Chain 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a leader is committed to lifting others up and making the workplace better, we have a special opportunity for them to get the book at no cost (really!) for a limited time. Since we started, we’ve given away almost 3,400 copies to amazing trailblazers looking to learn and grow, and there’s still time to participate by using this link.

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Books Leadership Open-book Supply Chain 65