Chart Your Course

MAY 2, 2013

According to a study by WorldatWork, “Retention of key talent – those employees who are the strongest performers, have high potential or are in critical jobs – is even more important during economic recoveries when organizations compete aggressively for market share and talent.” Copyright © 2013 TTI Success Insights.

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Benchmarking Succession Motivation Training 183

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Yet, despite those fears, we’re living through what has been dubbed the Second Golden Age of Television, as companies like Amazon and Netflix have entered the market and invested huge sums in television shows and movies. The study focuses its attention on the app market, which is estimated to be worth over $100 billion globally.

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Innovation Download Pharmaceuticals Creativity 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 11, 2013

12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance Brian Tracy and Peter Chee McGraw-Hill (2013) No so much “disciplines” as they are dimensions of a mindset The last time I checked, Amazon US sells 45,249 books that focus on business leadership. Why another?

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 20, 2016

More than half of all Americans are female, yet this gender split is not reflected in today’s job market, especially in more executive-level roles. There is a large body of research indicating the organizational, marketing and financial benefits of an equitable gender mix in management and worker-team groups.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Others may say that a leader’s focus needs to be on how to motivate productivity. Dorie Clark – Dorie is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, TIME, Entrepreneur, and the World Economic Forum blog. I suppose it depends on whom you ask.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Empowerment Leads to Positive Customer Experience. Employees who are empowered to grant comps, issue upgrades, or simply answer customer questions are more engaged in their position, which leads to a more positive customer service experience. In fact, this very hands-on approach breeds resentment and disengagement.

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Delegation Leadership Customer Loyalty Morale 229

Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

February 11, 2013. We don’t want followers who simply show up to do their work and leave, we want ones who generate ideas on their own and possess the motivation to see them through. All too often this leads to a loss of trust, miscommunication, and a decrease in morale, not to mention loss of market share or revenue.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2017

When it comes to characteristics of a good leader, being sociable, friendly, outgoing, and assertive are definitely positive ones. Whether you’re a leader trying to market your product or service or that same leader wanting to effectively lead your team, having good relationships with others is crucial.

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Schein Learning-by-Doing Development Influence 218

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The sound of the words captivates the imagination: pay for what you get; get what you pay for; motivate people to do their best, for their own good. But that is just my opinion (not a position of The W. Related: Business 901 Podcast: Two New Deadly Diseases for Business (2013) – Too often, executive compensation in the U.S.

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Execution Deming System CEO 45

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

The market is filled with self-help books promising to propel one’s sales career to the top. Playing To Win first defines the four basic personality types as positions on a football team – The Quarterback , The Running Back , The Wide Receiver and The Lineman. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Sports Open-book Follow-up Career 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market. By tuning in to customer needs, a company is able to define the market in ways they could not have identified had they only looked inward. All rights reserved.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 73

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A 2013 Wall Street Journal article indicated that as much as a third of internet purchases are returned, and studies have found that handling these returns can cost between $6 and $18 per item. This let us determine whether users saw reviews that were overly positive or negative. Positive reviews are not good or bad per se.

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Retail Review Positioning Productivity 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2013

Pleasure evokes positive emotion. ” Find their pleasure, find their purpose, find their expected outcome, uncover their true emotional motives – and you will find their wallet. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Ten Questions that Motivate Engagement and Drive Greater Accountability.

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Open-book Customer Loyalty Seminar Price 66

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. Business is moving too fast.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Sometimes that’s meant eliminating positions, but we didn’t tell the affected employees to leave. When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. But the added employee motivation more than makes up for that shortcoming.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In addition, brands that are perceived as being simple in their “products, services, interactions, and communications” outperformed indices on the stock market by as much as 100%. A look at the 2013 rebranding of the nonprofit Rotary can supply some clues. So how can a brand achieve this form of simplicity?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2013 an activist investor criticized the board at ConMed for a “ culture of nepotism, patronage, and dystopian corporate governance.” We conducted a study to understand how reputation motivates directors to leave their board appointments. We controlled for other factors that could motivate a director to leave.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In addition, brands that are perceived as being simple in their “products, services, interactions, and communications” outperformed indices on the stock market by as much as 100%. A look at the 2013 rebranding of the nonprofit Rotary can supply some clues. So how can a brand achieve this form of simplicity?

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Brand Survey Globalization Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Someone who buys lots of Kirkland feels very strongly and positively about Costco. But as we dug further into the integrated big data-set of sales and motivations, it revealed further insights. Marketing Branding Pricing' First, we found two overarching emotions from private label superconsumers.

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Price Brand Retail Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Sena, a supervisor in a company that sells credit to the upcoming Brazilian middle class, thinks corporations underplay this element and rely too much on the motivational power of financial incentives. This is especially true in emerging-market countries where the workforce has experienced great change and dislocation.

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Teamwork Absenteeism Class Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

At 74% of the 1,471 companies that have voted so far in 2013, according to Equilar''s say-on-pay tracker , the "yes" percentage exceeded 90%. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013. One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well.

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Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

By 2013, GoPro, with a mission to “capture life’s most exciting moments,” has the best-selling camera in the world and around $1 billion in yearly sales. We’re naturally motivated to solve them. How come every time I write marketing copy, it sounds boring when I look at it the next day? It’s also a hit. So here’s my plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Whereas her Nigerian parents tended to give indiscriminately to poor people, with religion as the driving motivator, Saraki has embraced a more structured, purpose-driven approach to giving. "I Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% I took it up from data. growth in GDP.

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Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% We hope this will serve as a powerful motivator to improve leaders’ decision making and bring sustainable business practices further into the mainstream. of revenues). million and $16.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. ” You can supplement what’s on the page with links to your work but you have to “motivate the hiring manager to take the extra step required.

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How To Career Sample Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We wanted to test the extent to which gender-based double standards are present in a competitive context, where evaluators have access to objective performance information and are motivated to evaluate candidates based on quality alone. exchange over a six-year period (2008 to 2013).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. ” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. million apps as of July 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). ” Other talent management concerns that were mentioned once include: motivating people through hard times, retention and development, and managing diversity and cultural differences.

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CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

“One, you have to replace the talent, and in a time of tight labor markets, that’s a very hard—and very expensive—endeavor,” explains John Sullivan, an HR expert, professor of management at San Francisco State University, and author of 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Emerging market diaspora populations have been on the rise, thanks to the continued march of globalization, and today’s diaspora communities are better connected with their homelands than ever before. Emerging markets and their indigenous companies should see this as an opportunity to boost their competitiveness.

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Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

We might look to Sir Richard Branson, who in 2013 co-launched the “B Team,” publicly decrying corporations’ sole focus on short-term profits and calling for a reprioritization of people- and planet-focused performance. So why do certain firms (and not others) choose to identify as B Corporations?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

percent in 2013). trade policy, opening both the American and foreign markets to an unprecedented degree. “New Democrats” such as President Clinton (and later President Obama) still saw trade as a positive-sum game, noting its role, for example, in buttressing U.S. As a result of these negotiations, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Adopting the Chicago School’s assumptions of self-correcting markets, composed of rational, self-interested market participants, some courts and enforcers sacrificed important political, social, and moral values to promote certain economic beliefs. Competition, for them, was innately effective. is now undergoing disruption.

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