HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

By evaluating an employee’s communication skills , employers can identify areas for improvement and provide targeted training to help them become more effective communicators. Strives to continuously improve communication skills through training and feedback. Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration.

Review 105

Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This is an except from Jan-Benedict Steenkamp’s Time to Lead: Lessons for Today’s Leaders from Bold Decisions that Changed History , New York: Fast Company Press. In marketing, this idea is used in “purpose branding”—how a brand can change the world for the better. Printed by permission. . Reflections on Charismatic Leadership.

Charisma 144

Charisma Bond Leadership Brand 144

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Gianpiero Petriglieri – Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD , Director of the Management Acceleration Programme at INSEAD , medical doctor and psychiatrist by training. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company. million times. Non-profit CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When a company is content with being merely mediocre it may survive but it will never do extremely well. The company must have an emphasis on high standards, a desire to create and give value to customers, accountability to the employers and to your customers, and the drive to learn. Focus on excellence. Business development.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 29, 2014

A Choice, Not a Symptom “Confidence is a choice,” wrote marketing savant Seth Godin, “not a symptom.” In politics, what if Vice President Al Gore’s sharp intellect had been driven by on-center confidence and less by off-center arrogance, which made him come off as condescending in election debates with George Bush?

Self-aware 229

Self-aware Comparison Learning-by-Doing Charisma 229

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Being sharp means being succinct. Utilizing strengths and the contacts I had made to write the book, I scaled my practice to service women in business—the companies that support them and the companies that they own.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Companies less frequently offer formal training – a trend that has been on the decline for years. This is a sharp contrast with the investment that senior leaders used to make in employees. This is a sharp contrast with the investment that senior leaders used to make in employees. And managers aren’t helping.

Career 15

Career Development Company Supply Chain 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2015

You’re calling people who will get angry at you or your company. Your mother never told you to use the alternative of choice close or the sharp angle close on Johnny. His website, www.gitomer.com , will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com. A gate-crash.

Customer Loyalty 50

Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Sharpe Seminar 50

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. You see, that is part of the mystery of life. Keep adapting your plan over time as well.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For example, this study examining the rivalry between sales and marketing showed that conflicts between managers from these historically warring functions were not driven by interpersonal issues. The seams that connect major functions are where a company’s greatest competitive distinctions lie. What value do we create together?

How To 8

How To Sharpe Operations Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

These commanders, personally trained by Nelson, he called his "band of brothers" and they took the right decisions because they knew what he would do in their shoes. In an effort to cover all the bases in an uncertain, changing world companies are trying to give themselves as many strategic and organizational options as possible.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

labor market over the past 30 years. In boom times, companies may face adjustment costs that deter them from adapting to technological change. That is, even while most measures of local labor-market strength had converged back to pre-recession levels, differences in advertised skill demands remain.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

Because this elephant can take on so many faces, there is a good chance that all of those points of view exist within the management ranks of many companies – even the ones that already have some kind of SM presence. Social Media has its own language protocol, and “company-speak” isn’t one of them. So what to do? Blog about it.

Media 305

Media Sharpe Learning-by-Doing Blog 305

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Here’s a truth: many in the marketing industry today don’t really understand brands. If companies can get their data-driven content and platforms right — as brands such as Lego, GoPro, Marriott, and KLM have done – you can turn people into media, willing to spontaneously spread your brand’s gospel far and wide.

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Yet I still have a sense of anticipation because in every one of Friedman's books there are a handful of insights that are so clear, so sharp, so flat-out right that they frame how you look at the world going forward. But their insight applies just as powerfully to companies and their leaders.

Airlines 16

Airlines Mission Statement Sharpe Brand 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Don’t use your customer team as a buffer between company and customer. What to do.

Metrics 13

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

World-class athletes and dancers explicitly train for pain even beyond the point of injury. The former is like a runner struggling to perfect their stride after the tenth kilometer of practice; the latter is a sharp pain suggesting a torn tendon. Overcoming resistance is not the same as pushing through pain. That shouldn't surprise.

Innovation 14

Innovation Self-aware Resistance Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures. It's not a matter of training to choose option "A" or "B."

Uncertainty 13

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Ratings on other countries and companies are more likely to improve than deteriorate. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. This is the time to revisit the market spaces you occupy and position yourself to ride the uptick. Upgrade skills.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. Sharp, clear answer , Aliyah thought. ” she asked. This was an important question.

Case Study 10

Case Study White Paper Analysis Brand Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Organizations like Kmara in Georgia, Pora in Ukraine and the April 6th movement in Egypt, received advice and training from the group and found similar success. The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Our power train electronics are sophisticated and efficient — I think as good as anybody's.

Case Study 8

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough. These are not mistakes.

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address. Preliminary group results for 2008 had revealed sharp falls both in the number of transactions per store per day and in the average value of each. She gave Luisa a hard look. "So

Case Study 10

Case Study Price Policies Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We’re all well aware of the fact that marketing is shifting from a landscape where marketers can utilize mass media to speak at consumers, to one where marketers are simply part of the crowd themselves. The bullhorn of radio, television, print and other one-way interruptive marketing approaches are quickly losing efficacy.

Marketing 20

Marketing Content Brand Audience 20

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. With a knife a trained surgeon can do something that a skilled villain or even an experienced butcher could never do. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. He or she can wound with the intention of healing.

Blog 419

Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

What caused the average of the expected number of children to plummet was the sharp decline in the portion of people who planned to have any children, through birth or adoption. A massive overhaul could start with labor market compensation practices. We know, of course, that not everyone wants to be a parent, but the majority still do.

Policies 10

Policies Health Care Education Career 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And they receive little on-the-job training to develop skills such as how to allocate short- and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business. Yet most doctors in the U.S. aren’t taught management skills in medical school.

Training 14

Training Health Care Management 360-Degree Feedback 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

strong opposition to the Iran nuclear deal; a ban on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries), many companies are still looking to invest in the region. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., Since Trump was elected, Dunkin Donuts has opened its first outlet in South Africa; U.S.

Depreciation 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9