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5 Leadership Lessons I Learned by Walking the Camino de Santiago

Leading Blog

I first walked that trail – 435 miles over 29 days – in 2013 and have returned twice since. He is a leadership consultant, speaker, and managing director of the consulting firm DiscoveredLOGIC. He holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School. James in northwest Spain.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

And, will they shake up the trillion-dollar corporate consulting and advisory industry? Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. ZB by 2020.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

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Apple's iPhone Pricing Strategy: Good, Not Great

Harvard Business Review

By serving the price sensitive market, Apple will grow its business with new early-bird customers. In my consulting work with companies, I''ve been in similar situations as Apple now faces. Often times a premium product with large market share encounters a new wave of competition that is winning customers via rock bottom prices.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Finance Human resources' And HR’s credibility deficit doesn’t help the matter.

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