Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

But then founder Kent Taylor is not a conventional guy. It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

That won’t protect any CEO from second-guessing, but Immelt explains how he’s pushed through even the most withering criticism: by staying focused on his team and the goals they tried to achieve. Is it wild to give away free peanuts and rolls and keep prices low, even as costs rise, or to keep the menu basically the same since it opened?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Mary Bilbrey, CHRO at JLL (NYSE:JLL) : Bilbrey leads a team of more than 90,000 professionals that deliver thought partnership, problem-solving, and tactical support to help drive JLL’s business goals and priorities. Prior to joining Tech Data, Simonetti served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Baker & Taylor, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

For millennia people have run by feel, an "art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain," says Christopher McDougall in his anthropological study of the topic. Frederick Taylor''s famous Time and Motion studies aimed to make factory work more scientific.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

It can spur creativity and accelerate actions designed to meet important goals. It's the basis for their goals. Branches that received low scores, recalls CEO Andy Taylor , "ripped the measurement, the survey questionnaire, and the sampling technique behind it." Done right, it can reinforce a company's values.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Taylor s textbook about "productivity" squarely at my nose if youd like, but Id suggest: the sharpest implement you might not yet have in your toolkit is a set of reflection items.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Or is there a bigger, more resonant, and fundamentally worthier goal we could — and should — be pursuing, like ensuring no human being goes thirsty?".

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