Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

All the most successful companies, you’ll have seen, are those that instill a smart, professional and motivated workplace culture – a code of ethics and responsibilities by which everyone abides. Think in the Long Term. It’s the responsibility of a good manager to also direct workers’ perspectives to the longer term.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Consumer non-durables refer to products that have a relatively short lifespan, like food, beverages, and personal care items. These products are a staple in every household and are consumed daily, making them a constant presence in our lives. These roles involve promoting and selling products to consumers or businesses.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Aristotle also held that a flourishing life desires some ‘good’ and seeks to achieve excellence: “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and human pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that which things aim.” ( Nicomachean Ethics 1094a1-3).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Human beings live to attract goals. Organizations get people caught in activity traps…unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Employees work hard, rather than productively. Mutually agreed-upon goals are vital.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. Catch up here.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. The report went on to show this has been a long-term downward trend rather than a temporary decline due to the Great Recession. It’s how we are wired.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Ramcess Jean-Loiuis, Pfizer’s Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Officer, is not short on ambition. Our goal is to remove barriers to access by increasing access and affordability for patients in historically underserved communities. In June of 2020, we revisited those goals to expand our commitments to equity.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Additionally, corporate executives must have personal goals written, in conjunction with a professional business coach or mentor. Goals require measurable objectives, with realistic dates and percentages for successful accomplishment.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. This vision, if successful, must be underpinned by core ideology and then expressed with clarity and conviction.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 18, 2010

When Admiral Clark became the chief, first term re-enlistment didn’t meet the Navy’s goal of 38 percent. command and control of the Navy was quickly reestablished and planning for America’s response began while the embers of the fire from the terrorist attack still smoldered a short distance away. Navy from 2000 until 2005.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. Professional development goals are an entirely separate category of aspirations and they need to be prioritized if you aim to succeed in them.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. Organizational culture is often seen as an elusive topic.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Operations are sound, professional and productive. In short, never stop!

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Looking back on my journey, I feel buoyed by this quote from investor Charlie Munger: “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” If you want to open a bakery, it helps if you have a passion for baking.

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The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Today we’ll take a break from Busting Your Corporate Idol for this timely guest post from Omer Soker, Founder of The Ethics Of Success. . In August 2012 he established The Ethics of Success Corporation to help companies and individuals create and sustain positive change. Follow Omer on Twitter: @ethicsofsuccess or LinkedIn.

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CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

Spencer believed that even those predisposed to leadership couldn’t emerge as influential figures without the help of social conditions outside of their control, and that great leaders were more the products of their environments than any particular inborn talents. PATH-GOAL THEORY OF LEADERSHIP. Evans and Robert J.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Product-service movement at business-to-business levels. Product-service movement at retail levels. Product-service movement in the aftermarket (resales, repeat business, referrals, followup engagements). Productivity gained.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. These issues are referred to as strategic alignment and employee engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

And socially focused companies like Toms, which appeal to consumers with their “buy one, give one” promise, also praise consumers’ purchasing behavior with their altruistic tag (e.g., “With every product you purchase, TOMS will help a person in need”). But do such messages truly promote altruism?

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. I achieved my goal by not my aim. That happens a lot, we honestly translate aims to goals. Thomas Johnson (in the forward to the book).

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

Upper management is most effective when it frames business decisions toward values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives and the benchmarking of tactics. These are the visionaries who advise management in refining the organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics and contributions toward the company’s long-term growth.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Critical topics include leadership development of executives, mindset changes in the evolution from manager to executive to leader, executive mentoring, insights into how top professionals evolve, plateaus of professional accomplishment, developing a winning work ethic, lifelong learning and the accrual of business wisdom. by Hank Moore.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Most often, they’re financial numbers or sales goals. What many of them think is a plan include some accounting figures or sales goals. One-third of the Gross National Product is sent each year toward cleaning up mistakes, rework, make-goods, corrective action and correcting defects. by Hank Moore. That is not a full-scope plan.

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 79

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

In business settings, competition in the marketplace can promote those values we all read about in our economic textbooks: excellence in efficiency, innovation, service, and production. Decompetition invariably leads to problems both in terms of productivity and ethics. Competition serves excellence.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. Distinctions must be drawn into three consulting categories (and percentages of their occurrence in the marketplace): Vendors sell products which were produced by others. Let the buyer beware.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Most sales forces focus a good deal of their attention on the short term — on bringing in today’s sales or making this quarter’s numbers. Quarterly goal attainment is a visible measure of success, and often a determinant of incentive pay. In short, everyone feels the pressure to deliver quarterly results.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. Learn all you can. This will keep you competitive and relevant.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In eras following downturns and scandals, it is incumbent upon good companies to go the extra distance to be ethical and set good examples. To say that business and its communities do not affect each other is short-sighted… and will make business the loser every time. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree.

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Loyalty Bottom-up Strategic Planning Bond 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

For more than a quarter century, the mantra, of course, has been that corporations' primary focus should be on shareholders and the primary goal should be to "maximize shareholder value." In essence, Martin argues that agency theory and the goal of maximizing "shareholder value" have had significant and harmful side effects.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 23, 2019

There are many types of managers but it takes a certain skill set for a manager to consistently lead their team to long-term success. Good communication is an essential component of achieving goals and contributes hugely to positive working relationships. Fair, ethical and honest. Why are leadership skills so important?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

My colleagues and I did an experiment in which I gave participants difficult ethical challenges where there seemed to be no good choice. But when we think in terms of “could,” we stay open-minded and the trade-offs involved inspire us to come up with creative solutions. We told some of them to build novel products.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

Yet the terms “data science” and “data scientist” aren’t always easily understood, and are used to describe a wide range of data-related work. Data science can be used in a number of different ways, depending not just on the industry but on the business and its goals.

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Ethics Learning-by-Doing Industry Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. These executives spanned functional areas and industries including consumer goods, IT, telecom, and industrial products, services, and materials. Publicly reinforcing stated goals.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Don’t be timid.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

The Volkswagen leadership set a new overarching goal for the company: to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018. And although the company reached that goal three years early, no one can doubt now — in light of the emissions scandal — that in losing its greater purpose, Volkswagen ended up losing much more than its way.

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