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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. These transformations typically involve a profound change in how a business operates, encompassing people, process, and technology.

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Management Improvement Carnival – 2013 Edition

QAspire

In 2013, one of the highlights of her work was “ Value of Vision ” series. James is an experienced operations manager who is passionate about improving quality, reduce cost and increase efficiency of operations. Jamie Flinchbaugh writes on lean, transformational leadership and entrepreneurial excellence.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. The problem is leadership on autopilot.

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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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Car-Mileage Targets: Only One Part of the Solution

Coaching Tip

mpg of a 2013 Ford Fusion HYBRID over 27,500 miles. . Car executives contend cheap gasoline lowers demand for more efficient vehicles needed to meet an ultimate fleet target of 54.3 mpg to April 2016 at 25.2 Our personal family average mpg experience is: 27.4 mpg of a 2008 Ford Escape SUV HYBRID over 135,000 miles and 39.7

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Mars Incorporated: A Sweet Place to Work

Coaching Tip

95 on the 2013 list, Mars boasts employees who love not only the products they make but also the office culture and the company's long-standing principles. The "Five Principles of Mars": quality, responsibility, mutuality, efficiency, freedom. These operational managers' value to Mars is they initiate or design positive changes.

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Virtually Selling

Coaching Tip

Now companies from software and health-care providers to manufacturers are radically remaking that model, shifting from expensive field staffs to more cost-efficient employees who use phones and computers to reach customers. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013 and "Ask the Coach". 2013 Business Resolutions.