N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The report doesn’t include data on staff as it relates to disabilities, age, veterans, LGBTQ status and intersectional identities. Here’s what I would suggest that Apple do to drive diversity and inclusion at the firm: Understand the Resistance: Because people are ethnocentric (i.e., In the U.S.,

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 12, 2023

Here’s how to bounce back and re-engage Suzie Henriques CMgr FCMI secured her first big promotion aged just 23, while working for a major retailer, where she would be managing a very experienced technical team. There was resistance and pushback from some team members towards the changes she was trying to implement.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

At a time when most of the consuming world has had to remain indoors, the retail sector in particular has had to face some particularly hard truths. Many brick and mortar retailers, especially, have thought twice about embracing eCommerce. A prospect to which they may have been resistant for the longest time.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

Of course, one reason is that Amazon and other online retailers make it really easy to buy things online. People get kind of resistant to being sold a strategy. With the possible exception of the car, there’s a pretty good chance you bought the product online after reading a lot of customer reviews. Why was that the case?

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The Practical Leader

MAY 20, 2020

Sam Walton built Bentonville, Arkansas based Wal-Mart into the world’s largest retailer through treating staff as respected partners. ‘Nothing makes people resist new ideas or approaches more adamantly than their belief that change is being imposed on them.”

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Women on Business

APRIL 18, 2012

Look at a certain wildflower farm and retail outlet just outside of Fredericksburg, Texas. Overall, they have a colorful, fresh, attractive vibe that is not only hard to resist, but fun to experience. They know that in order to be successful, they have to stand out from the crowd. Just ordinary seeds.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Each woman charted her own path to the top; they traveled through a variety of industries: energy, life insurance, technology, retail, and food service. Can’t resist my favorite female quote by Margaret Thatcher , former Prime Minister of Great Britain in her People magazine interview, “If you want anything said, ask a man.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 10, 2020

Although many mentoring pairs resist having a structured mentoring relationship, we have found that they find the structure to be freeing because they don’t have to wonder what to do or say every time. My last corporate job was leading Diversity and Inclusion for a retail company. Talk about mentoring and its power to build bridges.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 28, 2011

When you can't compete on spending, sometimes you can compete on mindshare. It's not just about being cheaper. Stephen Denny: Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2015

“The process of vaporizing physical things and replacing them with digital substitutes is the biggest trend affecting manufacturing, distribution, retail, and marketing in the 21st century,” Tercek adds. But, Tereck strongly suggests that we all resist the impulse to pretend that vaporization isn’t happening.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 16, 2011

Leaders need to actively resist this temptation and emphasize all four dimensions. Effective crisis management can significantly enhance a company’s reputation, as in Johnson and Johnson’s famous decision to pull Tylenol from retail shelves, or it can damage it as in the case of the Exxon Valdez. Third, crises are not only threats.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Why do many business leaders resist it? The risk, of course, is that HiPPOs push bad ideas, either through status or persuasion, and resist experiments that prove them wrong. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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Steve Farber

MARCH 27, 2017

Gill didn’t know biscuits about the doggie daycare business, but he had a love of dogs and more than 30 years of experience in retail and franchising with companies like Pizza Hut and Gloria Jean’s Coffee. Gill’s approach was new to some of the team members, and it created some resistance. That’s not uncommon.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

This system is highly resistant to change, as anyone who as ever tried to “impose” change on a system knows. For example, a retailer wanted to improve the quality of customer service in 4,000 outlets. These people create tribes — collections of like-minded people who build patterns around how work gets done.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 21, 2011

And, what HR person struggling to recruit great talent could resist that pitch? Towards the end of the conference, a recently retired VP of HR from a major Canadian retailer got up to share how his company had successfully “won” the award. Oh, and yes… the retailer “happened” to be a large client of the sponsoring firms.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

To help resist an automatic impulse to hit the reply button, consider these three quick tips: Turn off all email notifications, including pop-up windows, alarms, and ring tones. She has worked across a range of industries including retail, government, transport, oil and gas, and human services. Her clients include Yahoo!7,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Only 20% of the country's retail market is organized like a WalMart or Carrefour, versus 85% in the US. Imagine coordinating hundreds of thousands of the tiny retailers, most of which don't have computer systems, to accurately record purchases by consumers. It takes coaching and patience to overcome this resistance to disagreement.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2012

It then led voters in every one of America's 48 states to divide the market into three distinct tiers of activity — brewing and distilling, wholesaling, and retailing — and to establish strict prohibitions against vertical integration. Not that America's craft brewers and drinkers should rest content.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Even on Prime Day , Amazon resisted noting list prices — which would have made the deals appear even more attractive — on most of its sale items. No one wants to overpay for products, yet it’s a hassle to check product prices at other retailers. A high list price creates an anchor in consumers’ minds.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Uber has used petitions to demonstrate consumer—and voter—support in at least 10 cities, mostly in North America and Europe, where it has met resistance from local taxi companies. The proposal, which would have benefited on-campus restaurants, stalled in council after the scale of consumer resistance became apparent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

For a retailer, it’s extremely useful to know whether a customer will be back or has abandoned you for good. This resistance to state-of-the-art statistical models has frustrated the academics. Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2019

For a poster placed inside a retail or business premises, smaller posters – such as A4 or A3 – are the most commonly used sizes. Outdoor posters, on the other hand, are typically printed on durable water-resistant paper that adheres to the material without cracking or tearing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

Resistance to disruptive, technology-driven change is not unusual. Specifically, many people resist AI because of the hype surrounding it, its lack of transparency, their fear of losing control over their work, and the way it disrupts familiar work patterns. A retailer implemented a website advertising optimization tool.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

For a retailer, it’s extremely useful to know whether a customer will be back or has abandoned you for good. This resistance to state-of-the-art statistical models has frustrated the academics. .” Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Across industries, staff such as retail category managers, sales representatives, financial advisers, and wealth managers are awash with reports and insights that comfort their companies’ top executives and by making them feel that they are leading a “customer-centric” organization. This is a potentially fatal mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The bullwhip effect is the amplified response to demand signals as one moves “upstream” in the supply chain: from retailers to manufacturers to suppliers to commodity providers. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

And most important: resist the temptation to routinely categorize people — focus on what they’re doing rather than on what kind of person (you think) they are. Consumers are looking forward to the holiday season more than they did last year, according to this poll of 1,600 shoppers, store staffers, and retail executives.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

or abroad, or a retail entrepreneur deciding where and when to open more stores. Uncertainty is one of the primary reasons that people resist change. How will retailing look different with or without lower unemployment? You could be a CEO weighing factory location decisions in the U.S. Seeds of innovation could sprout.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

Retail was once about " location, location and location." Crafting the retail experience can be a little bit "paint by numbers" and, to use to that the key term of 90s criticism, cheesy. It has created its own resistance. But instead her work actually provokes something, gets us somewhere, and tells us something.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. The second is the need to lower the costs and risk of retail and trade based primarily on cash transactions. million at last count) secure mobile banking, and they also distributed 300,000 smartphones to the retail trade.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better. Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Investment bankers resist having to consider integration challenges lest the prospects for a deal be undermined by the realization of the all too numerous challenges that lie beyond their valuation analyses.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But to strategists focused on the big picture, this seems like resistance: “Don’t they see the brilliance of the strategy?” ” So they get defensive and begin working on overcoming the “resistance.” ” Their mental model constrained their metrics, which in turn distorted their behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Our micro distribution centers (MDCs) in Africa, many of which are run by women, help our beverages reach small shops and kiosks that can’t be served by more trucks and vans and create value for our business, our retail and restaurant customers, and the broader communities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

retail chains. It is known that along with their increasing organizational power, longer-tenured CEOs become more resistant to external pressure and less connected to their external environment and they grow “ stale in the saddle.” Conversely, Target hired an outsider who gained experience in other retail firms.

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Kate Nasser

JANUARY 13, 2019

As we explore customer experience leadership, it’s amazing how much we learn from asking the simple question, What do customers wish we would do? The answers to this question ensure that our customer experience leadership focuses on what truly matters to customers. So let’s look at those answers! Image by Michael W.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

There’s even a story that Reed Hastings wanted a meeting with the people at Blockbuster to essentially give them the technology, saying let us handle your DVDs by mail and your future streaming business; you focus on the retail store. We’re trying to figure out why some industries seem to be more resistant to others.

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