In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? I remain impressed with the ongoing success of P&G, L’Oreal, Nike, Whole Foods, Pernod Ricard, Apple, and Starbucks. I am not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. This top management ethic is essential to brand resilience. That’s an understatement.

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Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” By Patrick M.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. One such activity was introduced by Deb Henretta while leading P&G Asia. Here are five: Commit from the Top.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

With former CEO A.G. She holds the Ernest L. She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. But note how P&G did it.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

Since Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO at Apple last week, there has been much concern, discussion , and hand-wringing in the business world. But other companies have managed to thrive long after the departure of their talented founders (GE, IBM, Procter & Gamble, HP until recently). Place product experience first, not P&L.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. Netflix's CEO, Reed Hastings, was recently asked if Redbox was a competitive threat.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO. She knew that to have a role in steering strategy, she had to earn the trust of her CEO and board. “To Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Earlier this year, I asked a CEO of Fortune 100 company how he dealt with analyst pressure. What he said was this: "I don't know any CEO that would want to run a company the way analysts would want us to.". What he said was this: "I don't know any CEO that would want to run a company the way analysts would want us to.".

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GAAP Short-term P&L EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. Directness.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Consider George, a CEO of a large building-engineering firm in Silicon Valley. As business boomed, new hires and managers competed hard with each other to scramble up the corporate ladder (while prying other people's fingers off of it). They want to chug ahead, like the Little Engine That Could. What does happiness mean?

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P&L Construction Survey Stress 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Tommy was a director and Jane was the Midlands regional sales manager for Egan & Sons, a supplier of doors and staircases to Westmid for 63 years. With three efficient plants staffed by 3,000 employees, it had reinvented itself to become an innovative manufacturer of modular steel staircases and fiberglass doors.

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Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". Valuing and internalizing the externalities: Puma Calculates its Environmental P&L. Watch this space.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Yet they don't work, and their repeated application makes many managers incredibly gender fatigued and frustrated. Solution : Make gender balancing a strategic initiative, led by the CEO, framed as a lever to achieving business strategy, not as a separate initiative for already overburdened executives. Problem 1: Calling it Diversity.

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Diversity Balanced Scorecard P&L Committee 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Tellingly, only five of the 30 CEOs Barron's picked in 2008 as the world's best showed up on a similar list in 2012. Maybe that mattered less in a world where change was better behaved, but today, senior management's monopoly on "strategic leadership" can rapidly turn a leader into a laggard.

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P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10