Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Reports reveal painful truth despite ‘incontrovertible proof’ that women are key to business, economic & societal growth. References. It’s a painful revelation. “At At the current rate of change, it will take until the year 2085 for women to reach parity with men in leadership roles in our country.” About the Author.

Diversity 66

Diversity Competitive Advantage Participative Committee 66

Mike Cardus

MARCH 9, 2011

2011 Northeast Regional Conference is April 8-10 at Berkshire Outdoor Center and Becket-Chimney Corners YMCA. With an unclear foundation of work, facilitators operate off the culture, norms and expectations (whether implicit or explicit) of the organization who they are working with and their direct managers. What is Work?

Group Facilitation 114

Group Facilitation Process Skills Reference 114

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Each store employs 170 to 200 team members, fondly referred to as “roadies.” The top ten attend the company conference, and the winner brings home a new truck. . Too many times you have leaders who came out of operations as big shots and become isolated and hear what the world is through 4 or 5 people who report to them.”

Taylorism 70

Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 70

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.

Deming 28

Deming Welch System Open-book 28

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Informally visiting with your direct reports, your employees, and your peers often doesn’t require a lot of effort or time. If you have a geographically disbursed team, you can also blog, have conference calls or use a web cam between actual face to face visits. Thanks for stopping by again and for your kind comments on the blog.

Blog 172

Blog Self-aware Trout Learning-by-Doing 172

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

At one client company, I encouraged the CEO’s direct reports to cue him: “Is that a ‘blue sky’ discussion or are you thinking about it as part of the current plan?” Develop a ready reference tool that becomes a standard part of the discussion of all new initiatives. Who will lead the new effort?

Reference 8

Reference Objective Wilde Outsourcing 8

Women in the LEAD

AUGUST 25, 2009

  At a conference some years ago, I arrived customarily very early before people were gathering for the session. It is easy for a leader to be dazzled and preoccupied by statistics and reports, overlooking that most often, there are human stories and lives behind each of them. Every person is important.

Leadership 78

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Press Release Letter 78

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. The compass that was guiding the bank was a financial one.

Politics 13

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. She claimed the Wall Street Journal story was "blown out of proportion," which led Dimon to refer publicly to the trades as a "complete tempest in a teapot.".

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

In this case, the person I'm referring to is Dirk Beveridge, who has a small firm that creates sales strategies for wholesale distribution companies. 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."

Storytelling 8

Storytelling Kaplan Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Half of those latter references, in fact, mentioned the risk as regulatory constraints which may affect Amazon’s ability to continue to offer low prices. We must assume that low costs – both in purchasing and in operations – are not the biggest strengths of Whole Foods. But an important caveat here is cost.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 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. The Net Promoter system focuses the entire organization on generating promoters, who buy more, stay longer, refer friends and even provide useful feedback and ideas.

Intangible Assets 11

Intangible Assets Ethics Short-term Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

As Leni Kaufman noted: "I think often people come into a conference room, they come into a meeting, and then they talk IT. You need to make sure that your people, in your next line of the reporting structure, are absolutely top talent that can carry the agenda forward," said Tim Theriault. "I Don''t talk IT. Talk business.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Webinar Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

She had dark circles under her eyes as she walked into the conference room. A lot of us operate under the assumption that "my performance speaks for itself" when it comes to managing up or out across our organizations. Instead, try bragging with the pronoun "they" or referring to "the team." I asked her how she was doing.

Bottom-up 14

Bottom-up Power Project Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

This measurement is especially difficult on the frequent occasions when the user is not working at a computer: for example, when presenting at a strategy offsite or giving feedback to a direct report at the break station. Rather than appearing in digital format, these “offsite” cognitive outputs seemingly disappear into thin air.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing Software 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

She was referring to Henry Delacroix, the company's founder and artistic director. Elizabeth and Natalia glanced at each other across the conference table. Elizabeth cleared her throat and passed Henry a brief report. She paused as Henry gave the report a cursory glance. Many companies operate this way.

Case Study 12

Case Study Audience Survey Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. To a data scientist, “bias” has a particular technical meaning — it refers to the level of segmentation in a classification model. Anchoring bias may lead to over-reliance on the first piece of information examined. Insight Center.

Sample 10

Sample Project Self-aware Training 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Although Nestle's consumers and "shoppers," as they are referred to, were about 80% female, only 3% of managers in the company's leadership pipeline were women. In subsequent blogs I'll report on what the initiative has delivered in the major countries where Nestle has operations. We must have the same philosophy on gender.

Leadership Pipeline 10

Leadership Pipeline CFO Committee Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Approximately half of those surveyed reported that they began working as locum tenens during the middle of their careers, while 36% started taking locum tenens positions after retiring from permanent practice. However, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) defines locum tenens more narrowly.

Quality 8

Quality Survey Short-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11