Conference Development Report Retail 
Chartered Management Institute
MAY 3, 2023
As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Reserved your spot?
The Practical Leader
DECEMBER 6, 2012
As I wrote in the September issue of The Leader Letter , in more than three decades of watching countless leadership books come and go in this business, I can count on one hand — starting with Corporate Cultures and In Search of Excellence — the very few that marked a major turning point in development focus and approaches.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
Initial reports suggest that many executives are at a loss as to what to do with the newfound cash. A few have announced year-end bonuses ( AT&T, Comcast ) or wage increases ( some retailers ). But most have been reticent to say anything about their plans. The Googles and Amazons of the world should not have all the fun.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2017
The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. But let’s say that automation really does reduce retail and restaurant employment. Developing Skills that Will Matter in the Future. Here’s why.
Strategy Driven
MARCH 21, 2011
The people who work in a given department all focus on the same departmental goal— advertising promotes sales, shipping moves the product, procurement buys the parts— and they report to the executive in charge of their department, who measures their performance and rewards or penalizes them according to the department’s own metrics.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 28, 2014
It’s not been a great year for venerable retailer Sears, which is reputed to be closing 130 retail stores and laying off more than 5,000 employees. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957.
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