HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

Altman’s sleepless nights are a stark reminder that even the most successful leaders, those seemingly immune to stress and anxiety, are not exempt from the burdens of responsibility. Everyday interactions, such as listening and responding with empathy, shape the success of talent strategy far more than many CEOs realize,” says Neal.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Our employees are experts in helping our customers create more efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains. We have a critical role to play to help our customers, our industry, and our world lessen the environmental impact of supply chains. Robinson will continue to help advance the supply chain around the globe.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I began my sales career in the late 1970s when there were no personal computers or mobile telephones. Sales managers need to do a much better job at onboarding and coaching in this new environment. Sales pros need to understand the implications of the changes to be successful. My History in Enterprise Sales. About the Author.

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Dunning Supply Chain CPA Compliance 102

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Integrity, passion, and teamwork – these are the values that Walmart looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. Donna Morris: Walmart has long been committed to the growth and development of our associates to support our customers and enable long-term business success.

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Environment Diversity Leadership Supply Chain 98

Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2020

To set yourself up for success, you need to understand how to develop a strong business model and to avoid the potential pitfalls that could thwart your venture’s growth and profitability. A lack of experience could lead to a lack of success in your chosen industry. It is only natural to worry about failure when starting a business.

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Supply Chain How To Brand Audience 65

HR Digest

OCTOBER 3, 2018

That’s why every HR member planning to become a CHRO must first accept the responsibility of being the reason for a success or failure. As an HR with plans of becoming a CHRO, you would be on the losing path if your entire career is focused on administration and HR functions. How is the supply chain related to sales?

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How To Supply Chain Analysis Human Resources 45

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

To set yourself up for success, you need to understand how to develop a strong business model and to avoid the potential pitfalls that could thwart your venture’s growth and profitability. A lack of experience could lead to a lack of success in your chosen industry. It is only natural to worry about failure when starting a business.

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Supply Chain How To Brand Audience 68

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Leadership does not begin the when you step upon the first rung of the management ladder. And when you fail to demonstrate traits critical to successful leadership, the expectations of your colleagues and subordinates are dashed. Seldom, and at best, never to the degree of those in “management.” Craft or Career.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 25, 2021

I learned a few leadership lessons from my living room in 2020 – where I raised my nine-year-old daughter as I worked alongside her – that other executives might find useful in their careers. 2020 was a year of many firsts for almost all of us. For me, it was my first year as a […].

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Magazine Leadership Career Execution 111

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Even though I believe issues surrounding pricing decisions are root level drivers to a successful business strategy, I never cease to be amazed at how many corporations and professionals seem to pull their pricing out of thin air. Methodology : You do have a choice…Moreover most successful pricing models offer a variety of options.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. Unfortunately, organizations today are unknowingly leaving employees with skill gaps and blind spots that can derail careers and organizational effectiveness. And managers aren’t helping. What does success look like in your position?

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Career Development Company Supply Chain 15

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I invited my friend Peter Cappelli, a Wharton professor, author of Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty, and a recognized world authority on human capital, to discuss his new approach to talent management. Edited excerpts of our conversation follow: MG: First, what is talent management?

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Attrition Talent Management Human Capital Supply Chain 107

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. So how can you chart the shortest, surest path to success? franckreporter/Getty Images. Development matters.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. But what about those whose careers are sidetracked or derailed when passed over for a key assignment or big promotion? Very few managerial careers proceed upward in a straight line. The lesson here is that careers aren’t just about “winning.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

That’s one of the great secrets to the success of AB InBev, the world’s largest beer company. “Talent management is easily over a third of all executive time when you count it all,” one long-standing company employee told us about how the company is run. “It is big.”

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Clean Up Your Subcontracts 4 Tips for Business to Ensure Ethical, Slavery-Free Supply Chains The Guardian It may not seem like a topic for a listicle, but this quick rundown of what businesses need to keep in mind to avoid exploiting vulnerable people – and becoming embroiled in often well-deserved PR nightmares — is entirely useful.

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Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Software quickly sifts through thousands of job applications and shortlists candidates who have the credentials that are most likely to achieve success at the company. Smoother supply chains. Drone- and satellite-based asset management. Related Video.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Back in 1983, in a Harvard Business Review article , Peter Kralijc called for the procurement function to take on a larger and more strategic role in managing the supply chain. As the second graphic shows, many procurement managers are trying to demonstrate internally that they have strategic value. What went wrong?

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Supply Chain Discount Sample Marketing 8

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? But It''s Just Good Management. I Would Give This Five Stars, But. Just a myth, apparently.

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Supply Chain Health Care Letter Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

This is a boss you remember for years, one who has a lasting impact on your career. Here are two quick (disguised) examples: Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known manufacturing company. Since this was a minor operation, Sheila’s supervisor, the head of Supply Chain, paid her very little attention.

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Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In most fields we add value in the early stages of our careers by getting things done. ” Instead simply doing more , sustaining our success as leaders requires us to redefine how we add value. This emphasis on leading and not merely doing has had a profound impact on management education. In a word, we’re doers.

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Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

Managers in an up-or-out organization are expected to advance. It’s why companies like Colorcon and Deloitte are giving their performance management systems an overhaul. But in the meantime, what can you do in an up-or-out environment to build your career without inflicting collateral damage?

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Supply Chain Operations Restructuring Conference 10

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 15

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. We believe a compelling story will require reworking both the plot and the roles of the key actors. These are the seven areas: 1. Essential background.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

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.” Remote and flex work also present new challenges for managers. What can managers do?

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Supply Chain Policies Insurance Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2018

Imagine this: You’re a general manager for a manufacturing company and orders are up. Every leader has to make tough decisions that have consequences for their organizations, their reputation, and their career. Colormos/Getty Images. You know you should be celebrating, but instead, you feel gut punched.

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Uncertainty How To Supply Chain Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

When Tex Gunning, a Dutch CEO who has made a career of leading companies out of crises of growth, took the reins of TNT, a troubled express-package delivery company centered in Europe, he spent the first six weeks not in his headquarters office, but at the front lines of the business—in the depots, on the trucks, and with customers.

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Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

.” The interesting thing here is not so much the question of whether Uber should curb its aggressive recruitment, but the phenomenon that, for all companies, strategic success increasingly depends on competitive advantage in talent markets as much as in product, service, and brand markets.

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Industry Supply Chain Engineering Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? Experience in an outside firm should be a requirement before embarking on your career in the family business, says Lachenauer. You’ll also gain much-needed perspective on what you hope the arc of your career might look like.

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Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Understanding probabilities, statistics and analytics is increasingly vital to identifying and effectively managing high performing talent. As Moneyball and the rise of quants in professional sports worldwide attest, the ability to relentlessly improve the quality and specificity of performance analytics is key to success.

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Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Through our research on how people form impressions about experts and how people manage envy , we identify four strategies to help you turn around an interview. One of our managers shared another technique he used to disrupt the script by stating, “Let me tell you what’s not on my resume.” Disrupt the script.

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Supply Chain Self-aware Open-book Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Even the most naive of them agree that, like it or not, relationships hold the key to both their current capac­ity and future success. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. When I ask my executive students this question, most of them answer in the fours and fives.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Being promoted to manager is a good sign you’ve been successful to date — however, the road from this point forward gets trickier to navigate. With respect to your career, a philosophy is simply a cohesive way of thinking about your role. Becoming a Manager. Very few people take the time to establish one.

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Management Supply Chain Greenleaf Influence 8