Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 20, 2012

& Doug Lennick: If you’re in a leadership position, you make hundreds of decisions each day – and most of those have the potential to impact the well-being of others. Incidentally, Costco employees sell twice as much merchandise per square foot of retail space as their nearest competitor – Sam’s Club! Guest post by Fred Kiel, Ph.D.

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Morale CEO Merchandising Long-term 232

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 5, 2016

Companies say they want to be customer-centric, to be innovative, to produce outstanding products and services, to be environmentally responsible, to be socially responsible, and so on. Bean , the idea of selling really good merchandise at a reasonable profit and treating customers like human beings is worth the effort.

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Teamwork Real Estate Mission Statement Merchandising 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Senior management doesn't really encourage innovation, you'll hear. They won't let me take risks."

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Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Private label (retail-branded merchandise) has been growing for years – since Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer invented it over 100 years ago – increasing in quality and forcing down brand premiums. So with such a track record of strategic innovation, why has Tesco been blindsided by the hard discounters like Germany’s Aldi and Lidl?

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The company is doing pretty well: it has over 800,000 active sellers and a 15 million-person marketplace across 150 countries, and last year its gross merchandise sales reached $525 million. For Etsy's leadership, this was an opportunity to engage their entire team by giving them ownership of how to make Etsy better.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Brainstorming Commitment Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

The ultimate goal would seem to be having your values and value aligned: have what you do reflect who you are, have what you stand for guide what you make, and have your value to the community enhance your value to customers and shareholders. Nike : To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. *"If

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Mission Statement Sports Merchandising Brand 8