In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 23, 2011

by John • October 23, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. Steve Jobs managed to harness the resources of 49,000 employees to introduce and successfully market a slew of breakthroughs. Human Resources. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2018

There are many demands upon entrepreneurs and senior management of companies. Businesses spend so much time on momentary pieces of their puzzles that they neglect long-term Strategic Planning and miss potential successes. Top management regularly needs the creative inspiration to take the company to new heights.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 22, 2012

When I was on the ‘hot seat’ and in the line of fire as a CEO, I constantly dealt with pressing day-to-day issues such as bringing in the quarter, forecasting erratic commodity markets, reacting to predatory pricing, and stressing over sales shortfalls and excess inventory. Many senior managers haven’t the foggiest idea how to do this.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

In this fast paced business environment, people are just too busy to seek you out so you need to strategically plan how to create your visibility, how best to communicate your value proposition and to whom. Without this GPS or strategic plan, you are quite simply less likely to reach your career destination.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Business Success Checklist.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. It opens your services to additional market niches. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. It means being anything that we want to be.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Principles provide a broad context for strategic action and guidelines that can be communicated and taught at all levels of the organization, eventually becoming part of the organization’s culture. Here are the five principles that guide Advantage Strategy: #1. Priority on People. How many times have you heard this one? That is the good news.

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HR Digest

MAY 14, 2024

What is human capital management? Human Capital Management (HCM) represents a shift from traditional personnel management to a comprehensive approach focusing on optimizing workforce productivity and effectiveness. Image: Freepik What is Human Capital Management (HCM)?

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

They are realizing if employees and managers are unhappy, they are going to leave. According to their human resource department, it is harder to get a job at Zappos than to be accepted at Harvard Business School. 3) Manage your managers and make them lead by example. 8) Capture and manage ideas and suggestions.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Below I’ve listed a few stakeholders and corresponding Core Ideas to pitch to them regarding the European market entry: VP of Sales: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in sales.”. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Ultimately, this means combining operations with the most popular platforms on the market is usually a breeze. Finding the time for such strategic planning can be difficult in this fast-paced, competitive service landscape. Robotic Process Automation. Automating mundane tasks is becoming increasingly common in call centers.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Learn the value of an Enterprise Content Management system for HR professionals. Human Resources technology decisions are driven by a need to access information and report on it meaningfully. There are three major trends that present some daunting tasks for HR departments.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. Provide examples on how you attract top talent and manage teams to achieve results.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Complimenting the StrategyDriven Management & Leadership articles, these conversations examine the real world challenges managers face every day that are not easily solved with a new or redesigned process and instead demand the application of soft leadership skills to achieve a positive outcome.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 26, 2011

Should the Strategic Plan Rest in Peace? At one time, business executives believed that strategic planning was the answer to all of their problems. Today, many are questioning the strategic plan’s usefulness. Involvement of Strategic Planning Consultants. In the CEO Afterlife. Leadership.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation.and will market their services accordingly. Predict the biggest crises that can beset your company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

.” The reform comes as part of a new long-term economic strategy, dubbed Vision 2030 , and its national transformation plan aimed at weaning the Saudi economy off its addiction to oil, helping Saudi Arabia stay competitive in a low-oil-price world. Human resource recruitment and management in the private sector is another variable.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Slowly, we are seeing a shift from a buyer’s to a seller’s labor market. There may be a high unemployment problem but HR executives are still complaining about a significant skill gap, that is, a difference in proficiency between the majority of individuals in the market for jobs and those that companies want in their labor force.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 30, 2012

When you are losing, a change in plan is usually needed. A CEO leading a company on the verge of bankruptcy has to ditch the love-in and go into a crisis management mode. At the other end of the spectrum were Caldwell and Jackson, scrambling for a new course, a miracle maybe, but finding nothing but a guillotine to end their misery.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JULY 6, 2022

That’s because trying to find the right person to fill a vacant position is challenging, especially in our current job market. Often it’s department managers who create job descriptions for their areas. To help with consistency of verbiage, Human Resources can create an inclusive style guide available to all departments.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Training is unfairly blamed and scapegoated for pieces of the organizational mosaic that Strategic Planning and cohesive corporate Vision should have addressed early-on. Human Resources Oversees Training.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

As remote work is exceedingly conventional now, companies have started to hire human resources from all around the globe. Though it may seem like an excellent solution to the time-taking traditional hiring method, recruitment on a global level also requires strategic planning. But in recent times, that has changed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The retailers left standing are those that figure out how to treat disruption as business-as-usual in an industry accustomed to slow, strategic planning. Companies often pull together teams made up of technologists and front-line managers to continuously test and refine paths to progress, remove obstructions, and keep things on track.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Sometimes strategic shifts are driven by external events, such as the post 9/11 environment or the onset of the Great Recession in 2008. Other times, shifts may be driven by disruptions and disrupters like the one happening in the transportation and hotel markets right now thanks to the likes of Uber and Airbnb.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

Perhaps human resources leaders are spending their money in the wrong places. One of our clients was a $1 billion services company with a plan to grow to $5 billion. They had a detailed strategic plan in place that included increased collaboration and innovation necessary to grow the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. Yet it''s disheartening because it''s yet another organizational function that appears to not be able to keep up with the pace of business, staying stuck in a transactional, as opposed to strategic, frame of mind."

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

It may be: human resources, organizational development, training, technology, sales, marketing, advertising, public relations, coaching or financial management. Few of those have actually written Strategic Plans and do not really comprehend what the Visioning process actually is. You never stop paying dues.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

That was caused by previous management. Our human resources department takes care of that. When you suggest that a more targeted customer focus would benefit all, including their bottom line, management often gets pious, argumentative and confrontational. In reality, no single market shift speaks completely for itself.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. Management of the organization seems tired or complacent.

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Women on Business

JUNE 28, 2012

There is a new song out by Josh Turner entitled “Time is Love” Every time I hear this song it is a mini-exercise in personal and professional strategic planning for me. . In business, this consciousness is called strategic planning. How often do we think about what we really care about, what matters most?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. An accounting firm may suggest that an economic forecast is a full-scope business plan (which it is not). Entrepreneurial, small business management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

It’s hard to imagine a large company without a marketing department or division, yet less than 50 years ago marketing as a business function, profession, and department did not exist. Companies need a strategic plan for professionalizing and institutionalizing innovation across their organizations.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Mistrust of senior management. The latest strategic plan isn’t one. There’s a rift within top management and everyone knows it. Marketing blames Sales. Picture this: The CEO of the decaying company is addressing his management team. Too many meetings. No one arrives on time. Finger pointing.

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