Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

We’re having a giveaway for a $75 gift certificate to any product (out of the millions of items available) from CSN Stores. 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. 2 Cheryl W.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Within the context of business, mindfulness offers simple – but extremely effective – ways for leaders and their teams to increase productivity. In today’s fast-paced, high-pressure marketplace, leaders are continually looking for ways to improve productivity both for themselves and their teams. The Bottom Line.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It’s your job to recruit, cultivate, and develop the up and coming Extreme Leaders in your midst. You’ve heard it before: develop people. However… The most overlooked way to develop Extreme Leadership in others is to let them participate in your development. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote. Do it now

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Consider these findings: AI has proven to improve the productivity of 61 percent of employees. Singling out just one segment of industry, consider some of the ways retailers are putting AI to use: Every interaction online is analyzed to better understand customer’s shopping patterns, click-throughs, and page views.

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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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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 28, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio Expectations + Capabilities = Judgment Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted by: mike Expectations: Your perception, anticipation and interpretation of what work should be completed and the level of competency that should be present in order to complete the work. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

Team Building 116

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio 12 Steps To Building & Maintaining The Team Thursday, December 09th, 2010 Posted by: mike 3 circles image = TM John Adair (1) Leading & Working in teams 3 areas of focus are necessary; Team : the need to develop and maintain good working relationships among team members. All rights reserved.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 21, 2023

With two decades of marketing experience and an MBA Degree, Debbie developed her marketing expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the nonprofit arena, and the insurance industry. Do you agree with this approach? Why or why not?

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 21, 2010

All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio Positive Illusion an Elbow to the Crotch of Your Dogmatic Leadership & Team Building Tuesday, July 06th, 2010 Posted by: mike image from Grand Illusions THE IMAGE ABOVE IS NOT MOVING! really it is not.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

MAY 11, 2011

At the 2011 Glazer-Kennedy SuperConference, I had the privilege of meeting Kathy Ireland and hearing her address the audience of 1200 entrepreneurs. Billion dollar company selling 45,000 products in 50 countries. Billion dollar company selling 45,000 products in 50 countries. I know I did. And I was surprised at how wrong I was.

Retail 102

Retail Taylorism Taylor Magazine 102

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Related posts: How to Select the Right Project Team Members Eliminating Negative to Increase Positive Team Building & Leadership Process for a Retail Operation; New Product Launch Before the Promotion He Was Nice & Had Potential. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Working through this determination of Potential Capability; Applied Capability; Future Potential Capability Leaders can accurately develop skills and alignment of values to the work that is to be completed. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio Is Your Leadership & Work Matched to Capability; How do you know?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 14, 2010

When you have and rely on models and processes that work and match your time-span, values & commitments, plus skill set you can take more time for the thinking and problem solving necessary for leading yourself developing a skill set of leading others. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Once your responsibilities change.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Max Brown (to learn more about the book and the numerous book retailers where you can buy a copy, click here to check out the book page on my website ). And, I’ve developed a life-long habit of giving thanks which has helped me immensely in building productive communities of people as a leader in the corporate world.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio Team Building & Leadership: Case Study; Increased Trust=Faster Implementation of Decisions & Problems Solved Cheaper Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 Posted by: mike The following is a true story, of value added results that come from Create-Learning’s Team Building & Leadership Processes. Jan 2011 Guy.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast ! Click here to cancel reply.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Last week, I moderated a "Super Session" at this year's annual National Retail Federation " Big Show." Powered by local, mobile, and social media, online retail is becoming something that no long-time, card-carrying NRF member might reasonably have anticipated. Ultra-Specialization: Ultra-specialist sites unlock latent demand.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio 9 Team Dynamics That Get Results Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 Posted by: mike Team dynamics defined as the motivating and driving forces that propel a team toward its goal and mission 1.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change?

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The big question for many leaders as they look toward 2011 is: "How can my company be one of them?". The competitive value of capabilities, however, will only grow as you apply them to your entire portfolio of products, day in and day out. Paul Leinwand is a Partner in Booz & Company's global consumer, media, and retail practice.

Strategy 15

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

I launched a number of successful business ventures, including OfficeMax and my newest business, Max-Wellness, a new and unique health and wellness retail chain. And though it’s not easy, this means reining in your hard-to-handle employees while still developing their talents. I speak from experience. The Mr. or Ms.

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Motivation Management How To Retail 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Improve productivity. People and businesses are looking for opportunities.

Real Estate 66

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

They might include sales productivity metrics such as market share, the company’s ability to charge premium prices relative to peers, or sales force productivity. Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one. Of course not," he replied.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Genuine case studies of small businesses a retail shop, small manufacturing business, and medical office – are used throughout, so you can compare the way your business works to the case studies, and to industry norms. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Is it the clothing retail business? People who want to be successful should get serious work about developing themselves in all four of these areas. And in my new online self-development service, ProStar Coach. Thats what ProStar Coach provides for developing personal strength - 24/7 virtual coaching in an online virtual gym.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

You can afford to invest in developing someone who is interested in developing. To help prevent this, develop a short-term plan with a six- to nine-month outlook. A laser-sharp strategy is much more practical, productive, and economical. billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Meanwhile, plenty of other organic products, including vegetables, milk, and tea, have become widely consumed, at least by affluent, health-conscious city dwellers. ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either. As a result, many distributors and retailers were hesitant to add it sell it.

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Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

Retail 11

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Getting around these retailing hurdles will require flexibility and creativity. Helped by a central government subsidy of 3,000 RMB per store, Suguo helps remodel retail outlets and keeps them stocked. Its products often account for as much as 50-70% of a store's sales. Three, tailor products and prices to rural budgets.

Marketing 12

Marketing Franchising Retail Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Three and a half months after announcing a price increase in July 2011, Netflix had lost 800,000 customers and its stock nosedived from $291 to $75. Make it a point to reinforce that even with the price increase, your product or service is still a great deal. Thus, if wholesale prices go up, retail prices do too.

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Price Retail Press Release Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Disgruntled distribution partners may retaliate in ways such as switching to rivals, favoring competing products, or even lobbying for legislative remedies. Here are three strategies for developing digital distribution approaches that minimize risk: Embrace Stealth. Sometimes, an entirely new product provides the right entry point.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Our research on China’s prospects, in comparison to the development trends of 167 countries over 60 years, highlights the magnitude of the opportunity. Today, an estimated 200 million Chinese people use them and the number is rising – and Geoby is heading to other markets with its products. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4%

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

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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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8