Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

We prioritized how to move the industry forward as a more mainstream, P&L-focused business. Our end goal was to hire not only the artist and body piercer with the most talent but someone who understood and could adapt to our company culture. Instead, we focused on our brand and how to flip the script on growing a business.

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Brand Mission Statement P&L Retail 291

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. It is important to make it a regular outing, and to really explore intriguing, albeit unrelated subjects as a group.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

From our viewpoint, if business is conducted honorably and professionally, then profitability and success flow from doing the right things… not from pursuing false goals. Technology cannot take the place of human communication… only may add to it. Too often, one hears about what goes wrong in business relationships.

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P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). China, China, and China. Watch this space.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The retail giant's powerful buyers, or merchants, now have a sustainability goal in their performance targets and reviews. For example, the laptop PC buyer set a goal that, by Christmas, all of the laptops Walmart sells would come pre-installed with advanced energy-saving settings.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10