Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 2, 2010

With the absence of job security and the likelihood of lifetime employment with one company a thing of the past, the open labor market means you may be investing in talented people who will leave your firm for a competitor. We do this by adapting techniques that are already well known from supply-chain management.

Attrition 107

Attrition Talent Management Human Capital Supply Chain 107

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. That compilation of tasks that go from time sheet to paycheck?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets. Everyone talks about it, but our whole system is built on meritocracy. We soon figured out why. Most companies would have backed off from such an investment.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 11

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.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Smoother supply chains. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks.

Process 10

Process Company Supply Chain Software 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. 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. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 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. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

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. Think of how new metering systems and motion sensors suddenly require highly technical skills from contractors, plumbers and electricians.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 16

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.” Regardless of what HR policies may dictate, in a tight labor market, managers are going to do what keeps their people.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Policies Insurance Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

The sight of gas pumps whose nozzles were covered with bags was a case of poor demand forecasting within the supply chain. The security-company technician who was troubleshooting an alarm at my house discovered that the system wasn't reliably transmitting to the local cell tower and needed to be replaced. But you must persevere.

Case Study 8

Case Study TQM Supply Chain Brand 8

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. However, wanting to be more diverse and inclusive is easier said than done and often requires a re-evaluation of hiring systems and practices.

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Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Remember the summer of 2001 when CIA Director George Tenet said of the Al-Qaeda threat "the system was blinking red" but few around him seemed to grasp the urgency? A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft. But the Internet has now grown up.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

With the international economic recovery uncertain at best and the stock market convulsing wildly with every Beltway standoff or whisper of bad news from Southern Europe, it's obvious we can no longer rely on job security or investment returns to protect us from hard times. Marketing guru Seth Godin is a notable example in the business world.

Brand 9

Brand Supply Chain Godin Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed.

Innovation 9

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I am now convinced, though, that the entrepreneurial driver behind talent churn in African labor markets actually yields significant net benefits for African economies. We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

This phenomenon is what I call the fissured workplace , the cracks upon which today’s economy largely rest, and it leaves so many without fair wages, a career path, or a safe work environment. And while it’s true that low wage workers — an estimated 29 million people in just 10 industries, according to the U.S.

Compliance 8

Compliance Supply Chain Hotels Insurance 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. Their system’s inability to deal with any kind of disruption. Communications.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57