Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

He is the founder of The Potential Project – a leading global provider of corporate based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries. He is training senior executives, leaders and employees in organizations like Google, Nike, Accenture, GE and many other organizations in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. At the start of the decade, many executives viewed the quality process with indifference or fear. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. This is not something that can be conducted alone by internal human resources departments.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. As I speak with industry executives, a common refrain is “I’ve done all the easy stuff.” Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they're victims of it.

Article 50

Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

For any strategy to be successful and sustainable, an organization must develop an offering that attracts buyers; it must create a business model that enables the company to make money out of its offering; and it must motivate the people working for or with the company to execute the strategy. This is a classic case of execution failure.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team. Outside of 'think tanks' for company executive committees, full-scope education does not occur. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Human Resources Oversees Training.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. To fully enable a new vision of the future, organizations must make changes in five key business areas: Planning and Budgeting If organizations have easy access to—and indeed rely on—external talent, they can tackle new opportunities, experiment more nimbly, and operate in new areas.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. Although long ignored, these middle management positions have become increasingly recognized as critical to executing a company’s strategy.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

According to Glassdoor’s 2015 Employment Confidence Survey, about 60% of people report that benefits and perks are a major factor in considering whether to accept a job offer. A survey from The Creative Group found that only 9 % of executives think productivity would decrease significantly if employees used more vacation time.

Insurance 15

Insurance Policies Survey Bond 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Perhaps it's easier to start by discussing the pathologies of a dysfunctional Chief of Human Resources Officer (CHRO). When the staff conversation turns to operating margins, cash flow, inventory, or revenue, does the CHRO tune out? Operating as efficiently as possible is a minimum expectation.

Metrics 14

Metrics Human Resources Attrition CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Procurement typically owns your “resource planning system” for contract workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement. Yet HR leaders and operating managers were not aware of the reality revealed by the data.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

A cascading series of deadlines, operating systems, and reporting rules have to be arranged, tested, and communicated. These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015. Can we really do that in this environment?".

Health Care 8

Health Care Parcell Politics Policies 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

But anyway after college I started working in Detroit at a steel fabricating place and I worked in human resource, they called it personnel management back then and I spent a couple of years doing that before I got into labor relations and then I opened a consulting firm and started working with some messed up companies.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

But anyway after college I started working in Detroit at a steel fabricating place and I worked in human resource, they called it personnel management back then and I spent a couple of years doing that before I got into labor relations and then I opened a consulting firm and started working with some messed up companies.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Once the full experiment was launched in November 2015, 28 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

Twenty years later, as an executive coach, work-life sustainability is a prominent issue that my clients grapple with, as they face the ever-higher work demands that have come with advances in technology. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

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Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 11