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. Only 36% said they had not. Sources: Noelle C.

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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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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

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

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

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Success in the workplace depends on your ability to relate effectively to people. Your success at work depends on your ability to set the kinds of boundaries that encourage mutual respect and keep the focus on productivity. Here are 4 ways you can set boundaries: Manage Your Time. 7 Tale-Tell Signs of a Toxic Relationship.

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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. Visibility.

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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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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 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

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

While successful female leaders have made headlines in recent years — Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, and Indra Nooyi all come to mind — they remain the exception to the rule. women make up nearly 40% of MBA graduates and 40% of managers. We found that these figures matter to the bottom line. Yet in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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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. “They’re the most successful firms in their industries in many cases,” he said.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In one of the most widely scrutinized CEO successions ever, Microsoft directors selected insider Satya Nadella to run the company, only their third CEO pick in the firm’s nearly 40-year history. And that question is likely to be answered in the affirmative if the directors have managed to avoid the Peter Principle.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

The BWPO has a central team, led by its chief medical officer, responsible for “medical management” — a term used to describe efforts to improve clinical care and succeed in contractual obligations related to performance measurement. Over years, the medical management team built strong ties to PCPs. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1981, Peter Drucker delivered a lecture at New York University titled “ Managing the Increasing Complexity of Large Organizations.” Nothing may seem simpler or more obvious than to know what a company’s business is,” Drucker pointed out in his 1973 landmark Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. What should it be?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? As Wharton professor Adam Grant put it in a recent New York Times editorial, “[w]hen friends work together they’re more trusting and committed to one another’s successes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber built up staff, procedures, and software systems whose purpose was to enable and mobilize passengers and drivers to lobby regulators and legislators — creating political disaster for anyone who questioned Uber’s approach. How is an Uber manager to know which laws should be followed and which ignored?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. The team ended last season at the bottom of the standings (Las Vegas odds were 28 to 1 that they’d make it to the World Series), but rallied this year. What is a common definition of success?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Catmull’s Bottom-line: “Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear.” ( Blog Post ). Wiseman says, “We do our best work when we are new to something, striving up that steep ascent.” Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? ” If you feel your family member isn’t respecting these boundaries, “bring it up privately and immediately,” says Lachenauer. And I had to start at the bottom.” What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

This is one of the reasons research has found that in order to experience the benefits of diversity (better risk management, higher creativity, etc) on a board you need three women; one or even two aren''t enough to create real change. Here''s what we found when comparing the 3 women: Brand Passion Index for April 2012- April 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In a recent strategy meeting we attended with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up 27 times in 90 minutes. Business leaders believe a strong organizational culture is critical to success, yet culture tends to feel like some magic force that few know how to control. Insight Center.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

No doubt many would argue that is indeed the case, and will point to the way technologies from the smartphone to CRISPR are opening up new ways of living and working. in 2013, compared to 2.5% ” Variable outcomes. Suffice to say, the resourcing for such teams is not present in the NHS today, with just 0.1%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A mid-level manager in this 5,000-employee hospital, she is leading a 70-member group on patient flow as part of a larger organizational effort. Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. I found a few defining characteristics: 1.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Its recognition and success evolved into the national ad campaign: “We Do Chicken Right.” Living in a fantasy without viewing the realities of the marketplace sets companies up for failure.). An empowered workforce must support the corporate objective, and the art with which it does spells success.). Don’t let go.”

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The same planning process that nurtures Crisis Preparedness can and must also accommodate for Crisis Management. This is regarded as a premiere textbook case of quality crisis management. From top to bottom, the corporate culture was overhauled. Their success should be a beacon to companies striving to make the long way back.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2013

The Boston Red Sox, the 2013 world champs in baseball, are known for their sabermetrics. That’s what they get when they work for companies that practice open-book management. Larger companies usually expect each unit or function to come up with its own key number. It’s reflected in your score, plain and simple.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

M&A does boost companies’ growth and value, our new research shows, but the bet-the-company deal isn’t the route to success. By examining dozens of variables, we found the levers that explain more than 80% of the up-drift and down-drift on what we have dubbed the “power curve” of corporate performance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The CMS monthly status reports leading up to October 1 (especially the report for August, 2013 ) reveal increasingly desperate language and blame shifting. But under the surface, health reform is starting to look like a bigger success than even its most ardent advocates expected.”. Let people know to expect them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype. The bottom line, then? Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. Individual providers who didn’t measure up had to follow a remediation plan, with incremental improvements that were documented. Speak with one voice.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. In fact, we lose up to 40 percent of our productivity by switching between tasks; the more we switch, the worse our performance.

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