HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

With 66 percent of workers operating remotely at least part-time, effective strategies for leading virtual teams have become paramount. Challenges like communication breakdowns, lack of accountability, and isolation can hinder productivity if not addressed properly. Set clear goals and objectives, leaving no room for ambiguity.

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HR Digest

JULY 11, 2019

A better approach is to be specific about your goal and how you intend to bring your skills and expertise to the position. Example: Implemented company-wide book reading practice that led to better workflow and higher productivity. It’s even worse if your expertise doesn’t line up cleanly with the position you’re applying for.

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Creativity Positioning Power Presenteeism 109

Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2021

In light of all the physical, financial, and emotional hardships the pandemic has brought about, genuine concern for fellow human beings has become fashionable once again. Instead of focusing solely on your goals and what your network can do for you, broaden the horizons a bit. That has changed at this point as well.

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Video Conference Bottom-up Efficiency 115

Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2020

The most critical aspect of better data management is the reduction of inefficiencies in operations that cost businesses as much as 25% of their revenue. Mike Ewing, a Customer Success Strategy & Operations Manager, writes on Hubspot , ”if you rely on free/direct sources of traffic, you are fighting shared losses.

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Cost Comparison Fashion Bottom-up 74

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Blog Fashion Brand Self-aware 413

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 293

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. Taylor There's no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business.

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. They either don’t value your contributions, or they know from experience that you’ll treat their inquiry in a belittling fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

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Loyalty Blog Leadership Brand 390

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 405

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 281

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. I am a product of my decisions.”.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. For example, they many fail to detect or assess profound changes in operating landscapes, like Bear Stearns or Blockbuster did. It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 87

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. While being motivated solely by conquest may allow you to achieve a stated goal or objective, the cost will be great. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue.

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Blog Leadership Brand Reputation 404

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’re still on the fence, I would request you try and answer the following question: If you can engage those with whom you conduct business, or otherwise desire to interact with in a meaningful and value added fashion why wouldn’t you do so? Thoughts? However the goal is not to do it quickly, it's to do it well.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. But design thinking can also be applied to other business-related challenges such as devising entrepreneurial practice models, expanding professional services, operations, and even setting fees or pricing plans.

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Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

A strong personal brand is so much more than a memorable name or product. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

And when they don't deliver, or deliver an inferior product because it is beyond their scope, or capabilities, it further erodes the relationships with other departments, managers and each other. Trust, in turn, is the product of two components: Integrity and Ability. You ask how people feel when they get told no.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Brand 322

CO2

AUGUST 13, 2010

Consistency in others is demonstrated by a strong track record of success and acting in a predictable fashion. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Tips Leadership Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 74

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2018

Inspired by the bestselling book ‘#GirlBoss’ by Sophia Amoruso and based on her start-up story, this Netflix original shows how Sophia went from broke to running the multi-million dollar fashion empire, Nasty Gal. This show is also great for getting to grips with supply chain management as well as the basics of product design.

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Entrepreneur Gordon Supply Chain Advertising 50

Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

If that is your gift – leverage email, texts, etc to extend it, but not to replace the ‘old fashioned way’ Nice thought this morning Mary Jo. The thankyou doesn’t cost the company anything and consider the benefits in productivity and loyalty! Mary Jo Asmus : June 21, 2010 at 8:57 pm Welcome, Scott!

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Open-book 206

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

I especially enjoy working with groups of people and getting them to talk together and learn from each other and to find ways to work together more productively. Not that the eight steps makes it sounds easy, but it gives the impression that the information is organized in an easy to understand fashion.

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Skills Books Blog Mentor 181

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns.

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Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. Yet more often than not, when innovation occurs, it's a "happy accident" rather than the product of a deep-rooted innovation competence. This is hardly surprising.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

America — and many other countries — need an audacious goal to get off the unsustainable path. What if the United States set itself the goal of cutting healthcare costs in half — without sacrificing quality, and in about a decade? He didn’t do it by making cars shoddier or offshoring production to low-wage countries.

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Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell.

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Company Management Objective Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

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Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 13

Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2021

Customer contacts, payment details, marketing data, product inventories, supplier information, and more. All this data is essential for maintaining your business operations and keeping customers happy, and it has become an integral asset for companies, big and small, all over the world. Collect and use data sensitively.

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Tips Management Compliance Software 115

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

One strategy is to take the team approach to cross-pollinate and commingle the required skillsets; bringing together a diversity of skills and backgrounds from within your organization to achieve a common goal is a highly effective method. Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain.

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Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

And when you fall short of your goals, you need to know why. By handing operations over to the nonconscious mind — including high-level, complex operations like pursuing goals — we make productivity possible. This should be no problem; after all, who knows you better than you do?

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Self-aware Wilde Open-book Comparison 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

In other words, a product’s strategic value comprises the reasons and arguments that buyers provide to senior management and others in the company about why they should purchase a product. Instead of focusing solely on revenue, salespeople should concentrate more on helping buyers accomplish their goals.

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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Health Care Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics.

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. By banding together, firms in an industry can make life harder for free riders who seek to act less responsibly.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

But because aid workers lacked reliable information and channels to communicate, their activities were disjointed and sometimes counter-productive. By 1997 it had established AlertNet , originally fashioned as a private channel for aid workers and which later developed into the first global humanitarian news and information portal.

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2020

As any executive will tell you, there’s a tremendous difference between producing a hundred products well and tens of thousands. Excellent oversight over product quality begins at the top of the organization. Make Quality An Aspirational Goal, Not Something Oppressive. Often you have to rely on entirely different processes.

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Quality Process Review Performance Review 65

Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2016

Here are eight ways to grant autonomy in an intelligent fashion. Whether a document or a discussion, it will formalize the rules of engagement and operation in the handover of power. It also helps keep the empowered motivated along the way as they have tangible evidence they are on track to hitting their goal.

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Delegation Construction Fashion Report 173