Management Craft

JANUARY 1, 2013

I will not bore you here with the “why," but if you are interested I have included a bit more about my reasons at the bottom of this post. I have distilled the essence of great leadership and management into five beliefs. I am not suggesting you put up with abuse – but most of what irks us is just a clash in style. I promise!

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

It adds up to your boss being a poor coach. In fact, this item consistently scores in the bottom 10 of all items when direct reports evaluate their leaders. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. Your boss is afraid.

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Jason Womack

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Can you "image-in" experiences you hope are on the way and (perhaps) even plausible surprises that could show up? Here are my favorite THREE prompts that I use in my coaching with executives, leaders and managers worldwide. When I do this, I line up the 24 cards in order of the next year. This is NOT "wishful" thinking.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 19, 2013

A Gallup Poll conducted last year gives credence to what many successful companies have known for years--engaged, involved workers impact a business'' bottom line in a positive manner. . The latest findings are consistent with other Right Management workplace polls, noted Morrow. million employees in 49 industries in 34 countries.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Putting Employee Safety First Can Improve Your Bottom Line. You will learn about: Explaining the economic consequences of workplace injuries and illness to senior management. Click here for more information on Putting Employee Safety First Can Improve Your Bottom Line. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

But then we end up debating what counts as best — important? The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Two of the five, Vala Afshar and Brad Martin , have just written a 2012 & 2013’s Must Read book, The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence. I reached out and he invited me to visit him on my way up to Maine this past September. To understand the power of this book, I need to tell you a story…of how I met them.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Is your employee recognition program designed to maximize your bottom line business results? Will it directly help you to manage your talent and your culture? Provide real-time metrics for measuring & managing your culture. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. by Globoforce Limited.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2013

Is your employee recognition program designed to maximize your bottom line business results? Will it directly help you to manage your talent and your culture? Provide real-time metrics for measuring & managing your culture. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. by Globoforce Limited.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2013

Is your employee recognition program designed to maximize your bottom line business results? Will it directly help you to manage your talent and your culture? Provide real-time metrics for measuring & managing your culture. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. by Globoforce Limited.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Is your employee recognition program designed to maximize your bottom line business results? Will it directly help you to manage your talent and your culture? Provide real-time metrics for measuring & managing your culture. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. by Globoforce Limited.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Block provides operational executives and managers with the insight needed to relate ‘shop floor’ decisions and activities with the organization’s financial future. Strategy Management. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. by Robert S. About the Book. Whole Business Thinking by Robert S.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2013

These, however, are not a game and the differences can greatly impact the bottom line. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

This time of a year is an important reminder that where your company is headquartered also can have a significant impact on your bottom line. For example, Austin, Dallas, Kansas City and Salt Lake City are among the fastest-growing hubs for high-tech startups in the country, according to a 2013 report by the Kauffman Foundation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2013

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. bottom-line impacts effective leadership off-sites can have. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

That means the average income of the people in the top 20 percent is sixteen times the average income of the people in the bottom 80 percent. Then I learned another fact: Every person in the top 20 percent started in the bottom 20 percent. Question: How can a struggling salesperson in the bottom 80 percent gain self-confidence?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Your company’s hiring managers are working tirelessly to write accurate job descriptions. It’s activity like this that can really do some damage to your bottom line. A Career Builder survey of more than 6,000 hiring managers, worldwide, reveals some eye-opening global stats about just how much a bad hire can wreak company havoc.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Besides driving innovation, we believe organization implementing Andy’s methods will also experience an increased level of employee engagement that, in our experience, significantly enhances productivity and the bottom line. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Boundaries prevent unhealthy people from taking up too much of your time, energy, or resources – all precious commodities in the workplace. Here are 4 ways you can set boundaries: Manage Your Time. Bottom line, every relationship you have influences you. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Enjoy these cartoons from the October issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the HBR Cartoon Caption Contest at the bottom of this post. Hey, Frank, hold up. To be considered for the prize, please submit your caption by Thursday October 19, 2013. Watch yourself out there. This guy looks like he means business.".

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

According to Gallup’s 2013 State of the American Workplace report, “engagement makes a difference to the bottom line,” which can have an impact on productivity, profitability, customer service, turnover, and absenteeism. Management Would be Easy if You Didn’t Have to Deal with People, part 2 of 3.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 16, 2015

That means the average income of the people in the top 20 percent is sixteen times the average income of the people in the bottom 80 percent. Then I learned another fact: Every person in the top 20 percent started in the bottom 20 percent. Question: How can a struggling salesperson in the bottom 80 percent gain self-confidence?

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

The higher we move up the organizational ladder, the more our employees let us know how wonderful we are! The bear was about to clamp on an unsuspecting salmon jumping up stream. They must have us mixed up with someone who truly does need to change. Without it, we wouldn’t be so excited about getting up in the morning.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. In 2013, the Marketing Sherpa B2B Analytics Study revealed that 63% do nothing or occasionally leverage data to gain any insight.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

What I mean is that problems are often framed as a "system issue," a "top management issue," a "supplier issue," or a "direct report issue." Bottom line, one way to make 2013 better than 2012 is to take all those goals that you've just set and transform them into questions.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. The bottom line is that progress in wage equity has hit a wall. Men at the top are more likely to pull other men up by their collars into the C-suite to join them.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2013

They simply stated, “Thank you,” and hung up. How would you approach the market of sales professionals and sales management? I’m trying to link up with referral sources such as CPAs, commercial realtors, financial planners, etc. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Only women decide.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” Senior management at the new company knew him, his successful track record, and the companies he’d worked for. Slam dunk, right?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

But our research suggests that a better way to manage low-wage workers in developing economies is to invest in them, which is good for both worker welfare and the company’s bottom line. In July 2013 we implemented a randomized controlled trial in five factory units in Bangalore operated by Shahi Exports Pvt.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

women make up nearly 40% of MBA graduates and 40% of managers. In many countries they make up an equal or greater share of tertiary graduates and the professional and technical labor force. And worldwide they are catching up to men in levels of education and workforce participation. Yet in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Despite studies showing that the average worker checks email 74 times a day — and, in many cases, is lightning-fast at processing it ( another study showed that 70% of work-related email is handled within six seconds) — many of us still feel we can’t keep up. Eventually, no one will be able to reach inbox zero, ever.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Census data from 1990 to 2013. For middle-skilled, middle class workers at middle-paying firms, the chances of moving up the following year were 2.6%. The paper divides earners, skillsets, and firms up into thirds. In other words, many executives do not realize how poorly they’re managing their firms. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Believe the hype that AI can potentially boost your top and bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results. ” Design Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

What's striking about Fast Company's 2013 list of the world's 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. To get some perspective on this question, I recently talked with Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur, co-author of The Start-Up Owner's Manual, and father of the "lean start-up" movement.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. As a group, the largest U.S. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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