In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 15, 2012

Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. Peering into the future by a decade, I expect to see little change in the definition of leadership. Little more than a decade of web brilliance and we have an enterprise generating $38 billion in revenues.

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CEO Chief Executive Officer Critical Success Factor Discount 242

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. In this blog, I am not arguing against a clear definition of where a company is going and what sets it apart. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link].

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Blog Mission Statement Strategic Planning Brand 222

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

In an interview with The HR Digest, Michael Fraccaro, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets.

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Ask Atma

APRIL 13, 2012

Distributer – Marketing guru ; this is the brain behind getting your product or service to the public. Brilliant Bureaucrat (biz dev, and people wrangling; definitely the role for the director). Sticking with the alliterations listed above you would be missing a director of operations; a start-up CEO – Your People Guru.

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CEO Operations Entrepreneur Development 94

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In other words, this is definitely a discussion to which you want to RSVP. The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. So how can you begin to draw out these ostensibly idea-free people?

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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This would include a day spent with an installation tech and a day spent with a call center agent – preferably, in a market other than your own. And even though it may not have been seen as a “good” culture, it was definitely an “aligned” culture – we knew who we were and didn’t shy away from it.

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

HR Digest

JANUARY 20, 2023

The human resources sector of the business world continues to evolve and change drastically. Bureau of Statistics, about 675,000 jobs were occupied by human resource professionals in 2020. In this article, we try to break down what human resources is all about and detail what different employers might require for the job.

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Human Resources Tips Resources Career 64

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

In addition, companies that operate on a global level, especially multinationals and transnationals, have turned to better, more effective ways of hiring. As remote work is exceedingly conventional now, companies have started to hire human resources from all around the globe. Giving candidates a consistent experience.

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Globalization Tips Outsourcing Strategy 105

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

On the face of it, that seems to be two entirely different markets, with Facebook at Work playing in the workplace productivity market (competing with the likes of Microsoft Office, Webex , and project management software) while LinkedIn is part of the headhunting industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

Collectively known as "operational risks", these latter costs are substantial yet, if managed properly, could significantly, reduce the bottom line with few negative side effects. Of course, reducing costs by managing operational risks requires a change of mindset, a more comprehensive strategy and a change of heart.

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Cost Metrics SWOT Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. The context demanded operational excellence. Operational excellence had made us vulnerable to disrupters that were figuring out new ways to move mainstream.

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Corporations generate a large share of internet traffic through private networks used to share information and manage their international operations.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Leading Blog

JULY 20, 2020

But when there’s a problem and you’re left to work things out at your own level, by definition nobody has the power of rank to resolve things swiftly and efficiently. Aisha is a marketing executive who found herself overcommitted after being pulled into a seemingly endless project on a cross-functional team.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 13, 2011

by John • June 13, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 1 Comment. I’m not arguing against a clear definition of where a company is going and what sets it apart. Our mission is to operate the best specialty retail business in America, regardless of the product we sell. Human Resources.

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Mission Statement CEO Human Resources Brand 209

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. UAW wasn’t too happy about that.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. UAW wasn’t too happy about that.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This makes sense, because the alternative is for behavioral insights to be tried out by individuals or specific departments, and their knowledge and skill are likely to vary: Someone in marketing might use their behavioral knowledge to develop more-effective campaigns, while at the same time someone in HR uses theirs to focus on employee engagement.

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Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” How refreshing.

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Management Proposal CEO Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. Note that people often get hung up on definitions of “platform” these days. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The partner replied, “Human resource management.”. Off to San Francisco I went to be a human resource management associate at a Big Six consulting firm. Her job was to sell ad space in a highly competitive market where advertisers had ever-increasing alternatives to newspaper space.

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Advertising Human Resources Consultative Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. Victorio M. So it''s not just us!

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Complexity has many definitions; excessive complication is the simplest. This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. Their goal is to make accounting, simple.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Our human resources department takes care of that. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? To them, monetary volume is the ‘definition’ of success. In reality, no single market shift speaks completely for itself. Learn to live with it. That’s life.

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Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 75

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Our journey to transform our business from a traditional cigarette manufacturer to a science and technology-driven company is one of the most dramatic pivots taken by a major multinational company in recent history, so by definition, it impacts our people deeply. Philip Morris International Operations Center Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Some howlers and growlers definitely made it through, and generally standards plummeted. The creative industry operates largely by holding ‘creative’ people ransom to their own self-image, precarious sense of self-worth, and fragile – if occasionally out of control ego. Probably.) We now fell back on experience and gut-feel.

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Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. Uber is another example.

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Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

In our experience in initiatives to improve the quality, enhance experience, and decrease the cost of health care in the Seattle and Portland, Oregon markets, the best way to reach accord on a single definition of quality is to engage multiple providers and employers in a collaborative effort supported by medical evidence.

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Health Care Proposal Quality Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Or you could find that your definitions of success for the role are radically different. As a marketing and special events coordinator for an outdoor sports company in the Bay Area, she’d worked hard for months to prove herself worthy of a promotion. It may be possible to get the job you want if you play your cards right,” says Claman.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

We used to call this mode of operation, “doing business by the seat of the pants.” Despite the decline of “instant” coffee, Nestle envisioned a better future because they expanded their definition of the category. Strategy is Constraining. Intentionally So. Strategy does not curtail change because business models need not be static.

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Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100