Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2015

Take this further than retail and physical products. Whether a multi-billion dollar company like Chevrolet or Apple, a collection of like-minded innovators like those at Lead Change Group or an individual like Abe or you, the ultimate goal is to create a successful Brand. What thoughts do the image of Abe Lincoln generate? Principles.

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Leadership Brand Definition Emotional Intelligence 150

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

That age-old question resonates with the specialists who provide retailers with customer intelligence. In retail environments, companies are aiming to be able to identify all shoppers, connect them with their shopping profiles, and either sell them something or at least gain enough data about them to help make a sale during the next visit.

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Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 13

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Hubert Joly ­– Chairman and CEO, Best Buy.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Stumpf said in an earlier statement: “We are eliminating product sales goals because we want to make certain our customers have full confidence that our retail bankers are always focused on the best interests of customers.” Will eliminating sales goals do it? Either way, they do whatever it takes to make sales goals.

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Incentives Banking Ethics Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

At least, that was what went through my mind as I sat in on a recent senior team meeting at a fast-growing, two-year-old e-commerce company. I want you pushing hard on your teams. Align employee and business goals. Ask employees to reflect on their personal goals and find ways to incorporate them into business initiatives.

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Brainstorming Leadership Delegation Self-aware 12

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

Instead of relying on intuition or anecdotal evidence, HR professionals can use data to make informed choices that align with organizational goals. HR professionals need to identify the key HR metrics and data points that align with their organizational goals and objectives.

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Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It’s a refrain I’ve been hearing for the past 18 months from clients all over the world: “We need more skilled people for our security team.” Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly more organized and aggressive, while the teams defending against these attacks are struggling to fill their ranks.

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Education How To Industry Career 13

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

To this day, my greatest professional pleasure comes from the pride I associate with the recruitment and retention of the extraordinary Planet Subaru team, but gathering our current roster came with the frequent disappointment of people failing to live up to my expectations. Are you good at supervising others, and do you enjoy that?

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

A new management team pruned several of the acquisitions, stopped ‘doing more and more,’ and started ‘doing less better’ by giving their full attention to their core business, LEGO blocks. Their goal is to make accounting, simple. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

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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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Product-service movement at retail levels. Team the project. Reasons for Goal Setting: 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.

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Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50