HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: You’ve advised global CEOs and leadership teams across various industries. One leader of a division in a big multinational told me that after working with us and balancing his all-male team, performance, productivity and engagement all went up dramatically. Gender balance itself is transformative. This isn’t new.

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Diversity Globalization Presenteeism CEO 52

HR Digest

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The HR trends of 2020 will see the talent market evolving with recruitment going hi-tech , companies going for upskilling and reskilling. They will have to combine the role of sourcing, marketing, and strategizing. Those who do not use social and digital strategies to market the company and dive deep for talent will be left behind.

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Trends Flextime Human Resources Diversity 105

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 13, 2020

. “These systems go beyond voting, and include social media (like Twitter), biology (like the statistics of neurons), or finance (like fluctuations of the stock market).” ” Pivotal components.

Influence 77

Influence Proposal Politics System 77

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 29, 2023

In 2005, Vineet Nayar made waves when he announced that the Indian IT company HCL would put employees first. Every company leader at every level, whether they manage two people or a team of 5,000, should consider how they think about customers and start applying that approach to how they treat employees.”

Leadership Styles 59

Leadership Styles Trends Agility Letter 59

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 7, 2018

Any, even minor, mistake you – or others on your teams – make, can create instant, major blow-back. In 2005, however, I noticed a troublesome trend. For new products and services for your market? If it is multinational, you comply with differing laws and regulations and adhere to differing cultural norms. How could it not?

Bottom-up 168

Bottom-up Health Care Policies Fashion 168

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I love hearing that because it means we’re making an actionable difference for leaders, their teams and their organizations. Likewise, we’ve had around 700 rising leaders participate in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program since the first cohort we ran in 2005. Connection, of course, can lead to relationships.

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Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing 241

Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2012

At Johnson & Johnson, the understood directive to get product to market on tough deadlines created a culture of "Don't ask too many questions" and resulted in a series of dangerous drug recalls that badly sullied the company's reputation. In fact, it can lead to disaster. Excessive optimism.

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Budgeting Banking Ethics Commitment 285

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 4, 2015

2) Understand market trends. 4) Trust your team. Many times, so much time gets spent on making a perfect product that marketing and sales get ignored. Brian Roddy, Rolf Prima : “In mid-2005, we were best in class, but we were terrible at telling that story. What can I do to sell something at the farmers market?

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Entrepreneur Power Class Storytelling 150

Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2013

When newly recruited, the following types of executives experienced the highest failure rates within the first 18 months: senior-level executives (39%), sales executives (30%), marketing executives (25%), and operations executives (23%). Also, two out of every five new CEOs fail in the first 18 months (HBR, January 2005).

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Execution Reference Letter Teamwork 123

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 12, 2016

When organizations were hidden behind opaque operational fronts and top-down, one-way marketing, a leader was expected to play the role of an omnipotent god. Marketing became part of a broader, social media dialogue taking place between a brand and its customers. Without it all social media marketing efforts are doomed to fail.

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Organization Leadership Media Marketing Mix 100

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

When he took over as CEO in 2005, he laid out three strategic priorities saying it should be about the future, not the past : Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.

Leadership 214

Leadership Long-term Self-aware Short-term 214

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1%

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Press Release Discount PR Directory 113

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Melissa Greenwell "You are leaving money on the table and forfeiting your strategic advantage if you don't have women well represented on your boards and seniors management teams," argues Greenwell. percent a year higher than those with no female representation.

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Chief Operating Officer How To Leadership Telecommunications 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Just six months later, eBay went public with its initial public offering, and by 2005, eBay was on fire with nothing stopping it. Niki Irmal Joins the Women On Business Writing Team I’m very happy to announce that another female business thought. Whitman took the helm when eBay employed only a few dozen people.

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Press Release CEO Discount PR 100

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

  Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005.    In the Times article, he says “Ecomagination had a favorability rating of like one when it started, maybe two, me and (Chief Marketing Officer) Beth (Comstock).   Immelt stuck with it and today, G.E.

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Leadership How To Executive Coaching Blog 178

Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

© 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) rajesh301 on Why MANY smart people think they deserve a better position at work? Recent Readers Visitors Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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Tips Licensing Newsletter Godin 29

Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! However, they will rock even louder on my terms as an entrepreneur and professional coach.

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Press Release PR Exit Strategy Discount 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

You might think that emerging country companies are more ready to address the needs of and win customers in other emerging markets. is expanding rapidly via acquisitions of Issue Group and Cosmetica Nacional in Latin America, while China's Huawei has a large direct presence in India's telecom market.

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Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

This term is just what it sounds like: external constraints are market, environmental and/or consumer conditions forced on any company doing business in their space — something from outside the company that it has little or no control over. They threw out Western-style of care as a solution, recognizing and eliminating old constraints.

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Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We've seen success with a novel approach to talent engagement: an integrated HR-Marketing strategy that teams Marketing's brand messaging savvy with HR's internal perspective and expertise. The partnership brings added value to Marketing as well.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Benchmarking Marketing Strategy 8

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

On the flip side, a strategic transaction can catapult a company into first-mover position, give a speed to market advantage over rivals, and potentially let a larger company run away with a new market. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6 Don’t underestimate the value of chemistry and culture.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence How To Technology Emotional Intelligence 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Assist cross-functional teams in being more effective. How competent is your leadership team, and how prepared are they to help you catapult the company into the future? What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award.

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Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.  My wife worked with her in 1999 and back in January 2000, Nancy agreed to talk with totally stuck me even though I wasn't in her target market.   I used to work on Wall Street and knew the Ground Zero area really well. 

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Laswell Blog Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 183

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

However, when management teams do the same in their businesses, great harm can occur, for self-awareness is the first building block of successful growth strategies. Yet, our research at Bain reveals, it is the rare management team that passes our three tests of true self-awareness. That's the cold truth even in hot markets.

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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Airlines Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Activist hedge funds have become capital market and financial media darlings. companies for an eight-year period (2005–2013). That is because the acquiring team dreams that the player it will pick in the draft will be more awesome than that player is likely to turn out to be. akindo/Getty Images. But hope springs eternal!

Hedge 8

Hedge TSR Company Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

In 2005 A.G. Lafley, who at the time was CEO of the world’s largest advertiser, Procter & Gamble, introduced a marketing concept he called “the moment of truth” for building brand loyalty. Customers can also sign up for SMS notifications and find FAQs without needing to leave the branded experience.

Retail 10

Retail Supply Chain Loyalty Reis 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

His team is enjoying a five game winning streak. He's played on three teams this season, and until recently was crashing on two friends' couches since arriving in New York City. All big firms have hidden $100 million opportunities —a business, brand, market or leader that is overlooked and under-resourced with untapped upside.

Brand 13

Brand Metrics ROI Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. Dig a few layers deeper into firms'' management teams and the situation doesn''t look much better. A 2005 survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that only 7.5% Broadening the current management team''s mindsets.

Globalization 9

Globalization Diversity Survey CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Donald Hambrick, a guru on CEOs and top teams, argues that long-tenured CEOs tend to grow “stale in the saddle”, ceasing to make adaptive changes. So it’s consistent with market forces. But according to Professor Luo and his team, the optimal length of time in the proverbial saddle is 4.8 James McNerney, Jr is another example.

CEO 13

CEO Long-term Welch Pharmaceuticals 13

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. This is an important point for all business leaders, but in my experience, I believe marketers are particularly prone to what I call “smart syndrome.”

Influence 275

Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. The printing people are not being team players.".

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Organization Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

General Electric’s corporate business development group (about a dozen professionals) is bigger than the entire executive team in many midsized companies. Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. So he taught his team planning and M&A skills.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. Amid the financial crisis in Greece and threats of double-dip recessions, the last thing on the minds of Western companies right now might be recruitment.

Banking 11

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

And so she''s indicted that Tumblr team will maintain its independence within Yahoo! But Mayer and her team should act more boldly to integrate the micro-blogging site, because keeping Tumblr too separate would be a major strategic mistake. Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category.

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8