Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 13, 2015

” I was selected to lead a large retail sales team of 2000+ employees with no Retail or sales background. I had a strong track record of success in human resources and call centers, but my highly experienced team was skeptical. Lay Out An Inspiring Vision. Karin Hurt says: “I’ve been that leader.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2020

facilities on May 4, barring any significant changes,” read the email from Tesla’s human resources department head Valerie Workman. Nearly 600,000 employees in the retail sector have been furloughed off in the United States. After the fourth-quarter announcement, Tesla had a credit line available in the vicinity of $3 billion.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Welcome to the painful world of human resources where AI tools may take over work from professional hirers who are currently facing the axe. Layoffs that began in tech are now spilling to retail and beyond. As layoffs hit tech, professional recruiters are forced to rethink their careers. Recruiting: A Bellwether Career?

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 10, 2022

Reducing the number of abandoned applications (or your applicant drop-off rate ) will improve your hiring success. Hospitality and retail are notorious for their low retention rates. Once upon a time, human resource professionals spent most of their time hiring, managing benefits, and increasing workplace safety.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. If trends continue, we can expect VR training to replace traditional training methods in industries, such as retail, insurance, customer service, and safety training. New HR Trends (2022).

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Friends for over 20 years, they considered themselves, and were considered by others to be successful. Videos of Black Friday frenzies and physical violence for retail goods open the audience’s eyes to our society’s obsession with material things. Others live in minimalist homes about the size of a typical bedroom.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Online retailer Zappos, headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, has a huge reputation as a fun place to work. The president of Belmont University in Nashville, TN took a sabbatical to learn more about high-performing organizations by visiting successful companies.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In America, several specialist retailers who limit their product scope continue to thrive in an environment dominated by 5,000 Wal-Mart stores. . Qualitative cultures are about the creativity, the ingenuity, and the innovation created by the human resource, not the financial resource. There are far more than you think.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Insight center.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Understanding your purpose, what motivates you and most importantly using this knowledge to advantage is key to your success, both professionally and personally. Knowing why CoachStation exists has been paramount to my success to date. Purpose = Building Success, Making a difference. Why do you do what you do?

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2012

In the most prosperous new economy companies, innovation is at the core of entrepreneurial success. Johnson had launched Apple’s retail strategy and was the man behind the aggressive store expansion a decade ago. These organizations have reinvented themselves, and are proof that it can be done. Last year, J.C.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Despite the value of all of these factors, the resource with the most potential to elevate and drive your business is its people. Whether it’s the people on your front line or your back end, employee satisfaction leads to customer satisfaction, which leads to a business’ success. At Wegman’s Food Markets, a $5.15

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. I’m focusing on health and fitness, and to that end I’m inviting you to join me.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 19, 2012

Last week I identified the successful 21 st century CEO as someone who is constantly thinking about the future. Dinosaur companies the likes of Campbell’s Soup who have been plagued by stagnation will have to break their paradigm with daring forward integration initiatives such as retail soup kitchens.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. This may seem harsh, but an office succeeds and fails as a whole, and all the individuals need to be responsible for the overall success of the company. my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group. Former CEO, Carlson.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

With Black Friday behind us, Cyber Monday upon us, and retail's make-or-break season in high gear, many of us are interacting more than usual with front-line service employees. This virtuous cycle has been proven to work not only in retail but across the many service industries that have collectively become the core of every advanced economy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

But the employee-centered way is a better way — even in low-cost retail. In my research, I’ve found that retailers using an employee-centered operations strategy, which I call the good jobs strategy , have two strategic advantages. food retailers that publicly file with the U.S. Both ways can be profitable.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

And while action addiction is a natural outcome of the modern work environment, it doesn’t need to be a perpetual obstacle to success. Rasmus has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development & Adult Learning and degrees in Philosophy and Human Resources. Gillian is a Partner with The Potential Project Australia.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Walmart has perhaps the best physical distribution and retail network in the world. It needs to be competitive on digital channels, sure.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Four Reasons why Civility in the Workplace is a Must → November 1, 2010 · 12:40 am ↓ Jump to Comments Breaking the Rules I think we can agree that one of the key attributes for successful leaders today is the ability to adapt quickly to new situations. But sometimes rules really do only serve to get in the way.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Scibelli himself came from the retail sector. Administrative responsibilities such as getting paychecks out on time are not core.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Then, they typically learn about their particular jobs and are taught their scripts — the prescribed processes and behaviors they need to master to be successful on the job. Health Human resources Motivation Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. Each initiative claims it is critical to the success of the organization, yet their competition puts that very success in jeopardy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

You might think that the corporate human resources function doesn't have much of a role in improving business processes, such as product development, operations, customer service, or distribution. Why has HR become instrumental to the success of IBM, Lowe's, and Harvard Vanguard? But I've found that it does.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In industries like retail, customer service, and hospitality, entry-level turnover alone costs billions of dollars each year, based on voluntary turnover rates and annual replacement costs. The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The obsession with predicting who may be a future star or the next top leader has influenced academic research and human resources practices alike. But how good are we at evaluating human potential? A tech services company we know was planning to deprioritize its retail vertical, because it always made losses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

And many CEOs we talked to, like Owen Mahoney of Nexon, agree that the CHRO is one of the most strategic roles someone could have: “Businesses grow or die based on the quality of their people, so the human resource executive role is arguably the most strategic in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

The success of platform companies like Airbnb, Amazon, and Netflix has led to envy bordering on despair for their competitors. When we asked one successful online retailer “How do you compete with Amazon?” Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory.

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HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

HR analytics, also known as people analytics or workforce analytics, is a data-driven approach that empowers Human Resources Management (HRM) by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting HR data. The term Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) emerged as organizations recognized the critical role HR plays in driving business success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

But here’s what is most surprising to many about the marijuana industry: It’s filled with straight-laced people who built careers – and started successful companies – in other fields. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

A review of the literature does not turn up any evidence that the length of a recommendation is correlated with subsequent job success or any other desirable work outcomes. These are areas that can most often get in the way of an employee’s success — and they’re also very difficult to screen and train for.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It’s proving to be an eventful year for AirAsia, the Kuala Lumpur-based airline that has emerged as Asia’s most successful low-cost carrier in recent times. Despite the low odds of success, though, the urge to set up joint ventures remains strong. Five contemporary guidelines: Define a joint venture’s charter narrowly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience. Successful companies such as Starbucks (inspired by coffeehouses in Italy) and the German online retailer Zalando (inspired by Zappos) exemplify the potential of this strategy.

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