Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Determine the Cost of the Operation. The best place to get started is to determine the base cost of the initiative. This includes manufacturing costs, shipping charges, taxes, employee salaries, workplace rent, and more. Knowing the cost of a business is essential in determining whether a business is profitable.

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Venture Capitalist Budgeting Finance Advertising 100

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

According to a 2019 Conference Board survey , the most common reasons CEOs hire an executive coach are leading teams and developing people; executive presence or influencing others; and emotional intelligence. It takes considerable effort to recognize when someone is operating from a different mental model than yours.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

According to a 2019 Conference Board survey , the most common reasons CEOs hire an executive coach are leading teams and developing people; executive presence or influencing others; and emotional intelligence. It takes considerable effort to recognize when someone is operating from a different mental model than yours.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Why CEOs want executive coaching According to a 2019 Conference Board survey , the most common reasons CEOs hire an executive coach are leading teams and developing people; executive presence or influencing others; and emotional intelligence. It’s no wonder leaders get stuck in their mental models and can’t make progress. What would they say?”

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

A 2011 white paper jointly published by the GlobalEnglish Corporation and Human Capital Institute reported that 70% of global employees are non-native speakers – and only 7% think they speak English well enough to do their jobs. Are they sharing their ideas on conference calls? But what else do their jobs require?

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Globalization Skills Mentor White Paper 235

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. As speaker Bernard Marr put it at CMI’s National Conference: “ what the hell is Big Data? But there’s still a big question for a lot of people.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 15, 2015

Not long after this revelation, I was asked to work with Harry, the chief operating officer of a large consulting firm. He was habitually disrespectful to his direct reports, driving several of them away to work for the competition. I interviewed his colleagues and direct reports, even his wife and teenaged children.

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Chief Operating Officer Resistance Video Follow-up 70

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The top ten attend the company conference, and the winner brings home a new truck. . The program to recognize their stars costs about one million, but they estimate it saves between 10 and 20 million dollars. That personal investment from owners actually began as a low-cost method of advertising.

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Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 71

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

 Or that for every dollar an organization spends on employee medical care costs related to influenza, four dollars are lost in productivity?  Or that for every dollar an organization spends on employee medical care costs related to influenza, four dollars are lost in productivity? days of work when they catch the flu?

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System Human Resources Presenteeism Blog 167

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. By comparison, can you imagine a co-worker who received nothing (data, reports, parts, etc.) “The efforts of the various divisions in a company, each given a job, are not additive.

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Deming Welch System Open-book 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an important new report about how dire the consequences of climate change are becoming , and how fast we need to move to avoid the worst. This week, the report came back, and it’s not pretty. Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. Getting to 1.5

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Our Meaning and Purpose at Work report , released today, surveyed the experience of workplace meaning among 2,285 American professionals, across 26 industries and a range of pay levels, company sizes, and demographics. The magnitude of this number supports one of the findings from Shawn’s recent study on the Conference for Women.

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Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. In today’s healthcare landscape, physicians need to understand the business of healthcare organization, including concepts such as insurance structure and costs that patients encounter. And the span of leadership and responsibility grows once physicians enter independent practice.

Training 13

Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

Roles that are “lynchpins” — a lawyer in a law firm, a marketer in a marketing agency, a programmer at a tech company — confer a host of benefits on the people who have them. However, one might ask whether a self-reported measure of lynchpin status is valid. The Advantages of Being an Organizational Lynchpin.

Company 11

Company Report Positioning Consensus 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Inside the newsroom, we had families living in the cafeteria, conference rooms, training centers etc.; We had to put in a daycare center, a catering center, provide cash because there was no way for people to take money out of the bank, provide cars for people, especially reporters, to get around. We identified jobs to be done.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Take our survey and download “How Not to Cut Health Care Costs” as a thank you. Maintain internal cost and quality data as you would for other suppliers and use improvement plans, incentives, and penalties. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. alone, according to a report by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (note: the full report requires membership, but this number is mentioned about 9 minutes into the video at the CSCMP site).

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

After the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , many companies had to urgently decide whether to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a global business conference scheduled to take place just days after news of Khashoggi’s killing broke. It cost the bank dearly: in 2014, the investigating U.S.

Politics 12

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

Kate Heiny, who very recently departed as the director of sustainability at Target, told the crowd at this summer’s sizable Sustainable Brands conference that: “With their words and wallets, our customers are asking for more [sustainable products].” That seems to be changing. And it’s not just happening at Target.

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

A centralized function also enables a comprehensive and objective view of the company’s talent landscape (overcoming the problem of silos hiding talent), and makes it easier to implement solutions, such as leadership training, that cut across the organization and can be delivered cost-effectively.

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Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Digital transformation forces wholesale change to the foundations of an enterprise — from its operating model to its infrastructure, what it sells, and to whom and how. Specific industries with regulatory barriers or large infrastructure costs will feel greater effects of shifts created by the next generation of IT breakthroughs.

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Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine reported that American health care was decidedly dangerous for patients. The cause was not malfeasant individuals; it was inadequately designed and operated systems of care delivery. One in every few hundred was hurt, and one in every few thousand was killed by medical misadventures.

Health Care 15

Health Care Kaizen McKinsey Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Compare that to Whole Foods, whose latest 10-K filing makes far fewer references to price, and cites low prices not only as a clear risk factor, but also one which contributed to its recent declines in operating income and net income. But an important caveat here is cost. But of course, Amazon is far from a traditional retailer.

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Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Yet the company’s mounting scandals reveal something seriously amiss, culminating in last week’s stern report from former U.S. Uber was wise to use smartphone apps (not telephone calls) to let passengers request vehicles, and it found major cost savings in equipping drivers with standard phones (not specialized hardware).

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This comes at a significant financial and productivity cost to all organizations, as demonstrated by research in corporate settings : Onboarding an external hire can cost up to twice the departing executive’s salary, and the time it takes for an external hire to become productive is twice as long as for someone hired from within.

Development 8

Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When the staff conversation turns to operating margins, cash flow, inventory, or revenue, does the CHRO tune out? Last year I was at an HR conference where someone asked "What is YouTube?") Do you know what the cost of HR is per employee? Operating as efficiently as possible is a minimum expectation.

Metrics 14

Metrics Human Resources Attrition CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Initially, we got the impression that gurus might have little in common other than a desire to get the HBR stamp of legitimacy conferred upon their latest notion. Read widely and systematically scan sources, from new consulting reports to business headlines, to discern the zeitgeist. It can even be quantified.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In every presidential election year, it seems, editors come up with the idea to send reporters out in search of the same story: "Go find corporate bosses out there," they tell some cub, "who are trying to strong-arm their employees to vote for one candidate or the other." Unbelievably, every time, they find some. You probably won't sway them.

How To 8

How To Politics Influence Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Instead, Dirk decided that it was time to bring new thinking to the wholesale distribution industry through a series of conferences and videos that he called "Unleash WD." Of course, this one event didn't change the wholesale distribution industry, and it cost Dirk a fair amount of time and money. Join forces with other colleagues.

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Storytelling Kaplan Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Listen in on MBA classes and corporate conferences and you will hear a lot of talk about the need for inspiring missions, ethical behavior and transcendent purpose. When properly installed and operated, it delivers financial growth. But it also shows that those MBA class discussions and annual report rhetoric aren't just fluff.

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Intangible Assets Ethics Short-term Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

The Homeless Hotspots program was meant to serve the needs of the super digerati who attend the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas. Cookson says that not having to deal with that bureaucratic operational complexity was really critical, because it was a very fast-moving situation. "If' How did you handle it?

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Participative Crisis Crisis Management Conference 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

There is a clear and growing divide among global companies operating in China. Equally important is the fact that your China results are now reported in every top management meeting. Depending on what you choose, your strategy on talent management in China will be one of the legacies or liabilities of your operational strategy here.

Globalization 13

Globalization Attrition Skills Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Having experienced, expert inside lawyers inside is the best way of controlling outside legal costs. Morever, having broad-gauged, high-integrity, business-savvy lawyers around the coffee pot and around the conference table increases speed and productivity. For a more extended treatment of the views, go here.)

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Trends Crisis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Operational meltdowns can devour a midsized company’s cash. The financial reports his CEO showed him looked rosy: Revenue had doubled to $200 million and profits were $20 million. Crisis management Cutting costs Small/medium business' Not growth, or even profits. But nonetheless, the company was low on cash.

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