Strategy Driven

APRIL 6, 2015

My good friend, and IBM’s social evangelist, Sandy Carter, asked me to comment on what’s next in the world of social selling for 2015. Here are the Social Media and Social Selling Trends for 2015 : Social media and social selling are entering the next phase. The discount offerings bring customers. Comfortable enough to BUY.

Media 50

Media Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 24, 2015

If you want to improve your team (especially your leadership team), don’t ignore these three cultures that will kill your team’s ability to thrive. A CULTURE THAT UNDERMINES THE LEADERSHIP TEAM’S IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION. And the church suffers from a lack of quality leadership. Hartwig and Warren Bird, InterVarsity Press, 2015.

Ryan 30

Ryan Team Discount Learning-by-Doing 30

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

We often: • Overestimate our contribution to a project; • Have an elevated opinion of our professional skills and standing among our peers; • Exaggerate our project’s impact on profitability by discounting real and hidden costs. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. Leadership'

Succession 181

Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

Zero Based Budgeting 9

Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. But just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary. This shift means that PE firms’ approaches to talent and leadership must also change.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, super discounters such as Aldi, Lidl, and Amazon are further squeezing already thin food retail margins for large retailers. To curb this food waste, grocery chains such as Asda (Wal-Mart) and Morrisons are experimenting with selling “wonky” vegetables at discount prices.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Leadership is happy to ask that proposals and presentations be backed by “data.” Yet no one asks: which of the information purchased at high cost from the outside army of research vendors and consultants was ignored, missed, discounted, filtered or simply not used correctly? What Did Peter Drucker Really Say?

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Meyer claimed to have not known about Smith’s behavior, but evidence emerged that he had knowledge of domestic abuse claims back in 2015. ” The report also said that Meyer discounted information about Smith’s extensive record of misconduct and warned Smith many times before ultimately firing him in July 2018.

Meyer 8

Meyer Ethics Self-aware Morale 8

HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2019

The number of deaths from opioid overdoses keeps escalating in the United States; with over 33,000 deaths recorded in 2015. Choose a network—which they sometimes rent from a larger carrier—to ensure discounts on bills. But the program is becoming more popular among employees dealing with drug or substance abuse.

Health Care 71

Health Care Hotels Short-term Long-term 71

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015. For example, the Russian ruble depreciated from being 37 rubles to the dollar in September 2014, to being close to 70 rubles to the dollar in January 2015. Is it market share? Is it profitability?

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

When Sarah Robb O’Hagan agreed to take over Gatorade in 2008, she thought she was assuming leadership of an iconic brand that had grown a little tired. Despite fewer flavors and less discounting of prices, sales of the drink rose dramatically. billion in sales in 2015, and owned 78% of the US market. In 2015 it had $1.3

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Innovation Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

” (A bill was introduced in 2015 to raise the cap and liberalize other rules around H-1Bs, but died in Congress.) ” Hanson cautions, however, that their results do not discount the possibility that the arrival of foreign-born engineers is driving down earnings for U.S.-born exceed [Americans’] in comparable jobs.”

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Trump phenomenon and the Brexit vote are case studies in the dangers of ignoring or discounting resistance to change. That is where leadership is most needed: in helping today’s dominant group embrace tomorrow’s reality. But what if good leadership were responsible and accountable for engaging everyone in change?

Diversity 8

Diversity Trends Discount Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. JC Penney spent no money on television advertising during the 2015 Super Bowl, yet its “mittens” campaign was one of the most watched. That is some group of people.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11