In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 13, 2012

With the exception of mega-company “clout” in the marketplace, sustainable competitive advantage cannot survive in toxic cultures. Superb strategy and execution comes from the people within the enterprise. That is sustainable competitive advantage. For all intents and purposes, culture is the strategy.

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Competitive Advantage Long-term CEO Strategy 268

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017. PHOTOS: SAP.

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Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Without leadership, a business enterprise will eventually fail. Great strategy with lousy execution isn’t worth the piece of paper it is written on. The glue that binds leadership, strategy, and execution is people – quality individuals at the board level, in the C-suite, in the office, on the factory floor, and in the field. .

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Human Capital Competitive Advantage Tactics CEO 203

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 20, 2012

With the exception of mega-company “clout” in the marketplace, sustainable competitive advantage cannot survive in toxic cultures. Great strategy and great execution comes from the people within the enterprise. That is sustainable competitive advantage. After all, culture is the strategy.

Competitive Advantage 250

Competitive Advantage Long-term CEO Ethics 250

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

The reward is longer-term competitive advantages. Farsightedness is essential to effective leadership. The glue that binds leadership, strategy, and execution is people—at every level of the organization. Human capital is the source from which competitive advantage flows or falls.

Company 177

Company Apparel Competitive Advantage Long-term 177

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Organizations can and must define the culture they desire and intentionally execute a well-thought out road map to shape their future. There is no doubt that strong culture translates into a powerful competitive advantage. In fact, there is a huge risk in undervaluing the advantage the right culture plays. Jason Richmond.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All businesses have competition, serve stakeholders and other various constituencies, and must do certain things to avoid failure while on the path to creating a sustainable endeavor. Let me give you a great example…It is not at all uncommon for an executive to tell me that his/her business doesn’t really have any competition.

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Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 288

LDRLB

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Without leadership, a business enterprise will eventually fail. Great strategy with lousy execution isn’t worth the piece of paper it is written on. The glue that binds leadership, strategy, and execution is people – quality individuals at the board level, in the C-suite, in the office, on the factory floor, and in the field.

Human Capital 141

Human Capital Competitive Advantage CEO Tactics 141

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 28, 2012

With the exception of mega-company “clout” in the marketplace, sustainable competitive advantage cannot survive in toxic cultures. Great strategy and great execution comes from the people within the enterprise. That is sustainable competitive advantage. After all, culture is the strategy.

Competitive Advantage 131

Competitive Advantage Long-term CEO Ethics 131

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 4, 2012

I’ve met both over my long career as an executive, a consultant, and a board member. Here are the key differences between the species: Strategists are obsessed with bolstering their company’s competitive advantage. Strategic Planners, at the outset, are disadvantaged by the definition of their role.

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Strategic Planning Document Competitive Advantage Consultative 221

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The “intellectual capital” brought in by high-knowledge employees will be a major, if not the primary, competitive advantage. As the perceived value of key knowledge workers increases, the competition to hire these workers will intensify. Employee Engagement Leadership' Retaining High-Impact Performers .

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

During our discussion, Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired : Necessary Skills for Successfully Managing Any Employee , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: the differentiation promoting and hiring executives and managers are looking for in potential candidates.

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Human Resources Open-book Competitive Advantage Resistance 58

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2013

With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan. A member of the Society of Human Resource Management, she received a leadership award in 2002 from the Midwest College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.

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SWOT Human Resources Letter Competitive Advantage 57

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2012

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

Management 50

Management Human Resources Open-book Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2013

With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan. A member of the Society of Human Resource Management, she received a leadership award in 2002 from the Midwest College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.

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Human Resources Document Competitive Advantage Resources 50

Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2014

Leadership development is the number one priority for human resources (HR) leaders globally, according to Talent Management : Accelerating Business Performance , a survey by Right Management, the career and talent management experts within ManpowerGroup. Other key findings from the study on talent management include : .

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Human Resources Leadership Development Resources Development 106

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. It means being anything that we want to be.

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Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 90

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. Execute End-to-End (E2E) processes consistently : Assume that terminal check-in to gate management to ATC processes have been synchronized, but executional discipline is spotty. They result in information hoarding and lack of communication.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 269

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

Second, the fit between theoretical descriptions of competitive advantage and commonly used organizational outcome measures is inadequate. We turned to the classic Cobb-Douglas productivity measure , which assesses how firms transform human resource expenditures and capital investments into outputs such as sales or units produced.

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CEO Competitive Advantage Productivity Products 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

At the start of the decade, many executives viewed the quality process with indifference or fear. Though quality is one element of competitiveness, it cannot cover defects in the other areas. This is not something that can be conducted alone by internal human resources departments. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M. So it''s not just us!

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

They are the skill bearers and knowledge experts corporations will rely on to gain competitive advantage in the coming decades. Approaching or already in the prime of their lives and careers, they are prepared and poised for leadership. Now in their late 30s and 40s, Xers make up the bench strength for management.

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Competitive Advantage Talent Management Survey Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Executives dedicated to data-driven excellence accept the reality that smart algorithms need greater autonomy to succeed. CEOs need to clarify when talented humans must defer to algorithmic judgment. They’re analogous to autonomous resources, as opposed to human resources, departments. That’s hard.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

How is your company’s leadership making informed decisions about the arrangement of your company as a complex system of many moving and interconnected parts — including organizational capabilities, resources, and management systems — all aimed at fulfilling one overarching purpose? What Do Enterprise Leaders Do?

Company 8

Company Long-term System Operations 8

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 9, 2021

In their new book, TALENT MAKERS , Greenhouse co-founders Daniel Chait and Jon Stross present their step-by-step guide for implementing a structured hiring process that attracts great talent and turns hiring into a competitive advantage. We told the hiring agency that it was a priority of ours to diversify our executive team.

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How To Diversity Maturity Process 128

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

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Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers. The leadership model and related descriptions went out in the 20 languages used by Lear managers around the world. It had to come from the leadership, and it had to come with some humility.

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Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership. Organizations don't simply wake up to the notion that they will succeed with analytics; they need leaders to show them why and how to seize this new source of competitive advantage. Perhaps, like Beane, you aren't highly analytical yourself.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 26, 2011

Leadership. by John • June 27, 2011 • Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. At one time, business executives believed that strategic planning was the answer to all of their problems. One way to make the plan relevant to the people who will execute it for you is to involve them in developing it. Leadership.

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Strategic Planning Planning CEO SWOT 100

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This infographic from the Wall Street Journal captured the typical work week of a Chief Executive Officer in November of 2009. Advancing the model’ is just another way of saying improving or fortifying the company’s competitive advantage. Differentiation holds the key to competitive success.

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CEO Chief Executive Officer Business Model Competitive Advantage 207

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Our human resources department takes care of that. The savvy business executive or advisor will offer pro-active follow-ups. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it. Once the PR crisis passes, things will get back to normal.

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Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 77

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Diagnose a competitively disadvantaging problem or an unrealized opportunity for competitive advantage. Prescribe a more competitively advantaged outcome. Human resources development. Continue raising the bar on values. Team the project. How to Find Goals: Examine problems. Portfolio analysis.

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Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

I recently talked with the Chief Human Resource Officer of a significant player in the insurance industry about this exact topic. If you can’t get in the field, then sit in on a few quarterly Zoom sales meetings to listen in. The best way to inspect what you expect is to dive right in!

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Team Insurance Human Resources Strategy 289

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2013

Further, in support of unions, on February 6, 2009, President Obama signed an executive order reversing George H. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan. References. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

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Project Human Resources Cost Conflict of Interest 50