Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2015

When you see the Apple logo, it inspires certain opinions and thoughts – innovative, reliable, sleek. Take this further than retail and physical products. An innovator or a maintainer? A teambuilding innovator or a tyrannical dictator? What thoughts do the image of Abe Lincoln generate? Principles.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

For example, over the past several years, we’ve implemented paid family leave and paid parental leave, as well as extended paid sick leave to part-time retail employees so our employees never have to choose between work and taking care of their own health, a new child, or a sick parent or spouse. Our core values here at LS&Co.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. It could help boost pay equality Tips and tools to help you navigate the slippery slope of business ethics Lessons from Britain’s Most Admired Companies on leading with integrity Should pets be allowed in the office?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 20, 2012

Incidentally, Costco employees sell twice as much merchandise per square foot of retail space as their nearest competitor – Sam’s Club! Practicing forgiveness for well-intentioned mistakes is necessary for innovation to flourish. Even part-time workers receive benefits. He did so in spite of steady criticism from Wall Street analysts.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Type "innovation" into hbr.org and you will get nearly 4,700 results. For many ills, innovation is seen as the panacea — management's equivalent of motherhood and apple pie — and few would challenge its significance. The word "innovation" comes from the Latin word "novus" meaning new. Productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. Tesco, the success story of the British retail scene for the last 20 years, has suddenly fallen from grace. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. How did this happen?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. If you will not buy for yourself a specific product, don’t try to sell it. Santander has also been innovative when it comes to social media and mobile campaigns. Click here to cancel reply.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

Consider these three examples: In 2014 the US healthcare retailer CVS decided to stop selling cigarettes, at an estimated cost of $2 billion, due to it being “the right thing for us to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health,” according to Larry Merlo, CEO. Insight Center.

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HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

It provides valuable insights into employee behavior, performance, productivity, and interactions, enabling organizations to make data-backed decisions that drive business success. Enhanced Employee Experience: HR analytics helps uncover factors that contribute to employee engagement, satisfaction, and productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

So serious customer-centric organizations and innovative marketers are decreasingly asking, “How do we make our customers more loyal?” By submitting their receipt through the app, Walmart customers receive credit in their account if the product was available for a lower price elsewhere.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

So far, we’ve replaced 52% of the water we use in making our beverages and reducing water usage across our 800-plus bottling plants helps reduce the overall cost of production. We also have our distribution network, which connects us directly to the 24 million retail customers we visit every week.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense). — actually lead to more-productive employees and companies? In fact, a survey of retail managers suggests that a majority think customers are happier getting preferential treatment in public than in private.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

They set out a broad vision, provide lofty goals, and model an ambitious work ethic (for recent college grads, it’s not a big leap from “all nighters” to “all weekenders”). Don’t get me wrong — Daniel’s intentions are good. And at this stage in a company’s growth, it generally works.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Now more than ever , businesses are reaching beyond the boundaries of their organizations, tapping experts, customers, and, more broadly, “the crowd” to build new products, services, and other solutions. Consider Ashoka , which provides start-up funding and support for social innovators worldwide.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

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. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" No selling of products or services. No ad hominem attacks.

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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. Operational Statistics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

They will demand that all their products display this new level of smartness, develop a hunger for applications and services to get ever smarter, and expect them to “play smartly” with one another. This “smartness” will become an important source of differentiation. AI for Good.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

They’ll see by then how it changes the way your customers interact with the products, services, and information that you provide them. Doesn’t this face the same ethics and social challenges as Glass? This is precisely what made Glass vulnerable to the ethical and social issues that dogged it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

For decades, marketers have segmented their target customers to get a read on who will buy a product or service. Many of those data points exist in silos — with the phone company, the cable company, the retailer, etc. The limitations of place and space are no longer as relevant today.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 15, 2010

It should come as no surprise that I immediately saw this as an opportunity to talk about the importance of the force of connection and how it contributes to the success of retail businesses. Here’s a link to the article entitled “ If I Owned a Jewelry Store.&# No Comment No comments yet Posting your comment.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Nabob survived near-bankruptcy in the ’70s by making the tough decision to streamline its business and become a specialist (versus the generalist it was originally set up to be, once carrying a myriad of product lines from coffee to jams to spices). It actually used to play in 12 different product categories.

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