ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The following blog post is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. It was only recently that hiring increased significantly as sales have continued to grow and show stability following the recession and slow recovery. Did we fall asleep?

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Resources Talent Management Rogers Constraint 52

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment. I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down.

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Julie’s hand immediately went up in the air. The following matrix may make simpler sense of this concept. To answer the question, “By what method,” Mark has responded with the following powerful statement: Listen to the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of the people closest to the work, and then make that desired state seem possible.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

To better understand this relationship, take a look at the following figure: Not sure if this issue affects you or a team you lead? Manage Your Email: Regardless of your job, your location, or your industry, email likely takes up a significant portion of your time – while not always producing the best results. The Bottom Line.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

follow-up calls necessary to book an order = $1,158. 8 follow-up calls necessary to book an order = $334. Collect business cards, as the basis for follow-up activities. Follow procedures for literature distribution, trash cleanup, conversation and public demeanor. Follow a step-by-step process.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) It similarly effects selling/buying, coaching/clients, doctors/patients, leaders/followers. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Resistance to Guidance: Why Sales, Coaching, and Leadership Practices Falter.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It is a mindset that permeates organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up. That means doing things correctly the first time, without wasting counter-productive time in cleaning up mistakes. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The grueling testimonies from CEO John Stumpf, coupled with insights from my industry-wide research into the culture and mindsets of bankers, suggest there is a blind spot among senior leaders at Wells Fargo, as well as deterrents to speaking up among the rank and file. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

In one telling case , construction workers went home at the end of the week as employees only to be informed on the following Monday that, perhaps by the magic of some unknown force, they had become, “member/owners” of hundreds of limited liability companies, effectively stripping them of federal and state job protections.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The ability to meet challenges with a willingness to depart from standard operating procedures; to confront anxiety, tolerate criticism, take intelligent risks, and refute conventional wisdom—especially one’s own views—in order to achieve breakthroughs” is what Jonah Sachs calls unsafe thinking. First up is courage. Leadership.

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How To Creativity Motivation Learning-by-Doing 165

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. In phase two (buy and hold), PE equity investors bought the fixer upper and repaired it, but then rented it and ended up loosely managing the house before selling it. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course).

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. military’s Joint Staff network, which the Washington Post reports was compromised in August 2015 via a measly phishing e-mail. In 2015 , the U.S. Insight Center.

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Training CIO Chief Information Officer Information 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

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Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. Up until the 1960s, scholars viewed diversification as a valuable strategy. corporations from 1985 to 2015. The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead.

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Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. In March 2015, Target hired three outsiders as “entrepreneurs-in-residence.” Fear of failure. Persistence.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

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Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

corporate boardroom representation , despite solid evidence that greater women's representation in corporate leadership correlates directly with improved business performance. The British declaration closely follows other high-profile European nations: Norway and Spain have already set quotas for women's representation on boards of directors.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. For example, in 2015 the Consortium arranged a global Zika Innovation Hack-a-thon in which 200 innovators developed 15 proposed solutions in 48 hours to help control the virus.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

What we found surprised us: Companies that are great at both strategy and execution don’t follow the prevailing practices of their industries. That’s how Lego went from losing a million dollars a day in 2004 to being the world’s largest toy company in 2015. Operating as these companies do takes a lot of confidence.

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Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Customers can tweet at JetBlue with questions or problems, and the account helps keep JetBlue front of mind for its followers, even when they’re not traveling. Action camera manufacturer GoPro maintains a much-followed Instagram account where it, and its users, share exciting photos and videos created with GoPros.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. And having grown through intentional illegality, Uber can’t easily pivot toward following the rules. How is an Uber manager to know which laws should be followed and which ignored? Uber’s Fundamental Illegality. (To

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S. Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question. wage to 11 million workers — considerably more than our 7.8 million citizens who are currently unemployed.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. And it has continued to this day.

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CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. These new ventures would operate separately from the core hospital assets and would compete in new ways in the health care marketplace.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. Their missions’ success rests on their ability to stay resilient and perform effectively in adverse circumstances. Recognition.

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Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When the staff conversation turns to operating margins, cash flow, inventory, or revenue, does the CHRO tune out? Already 35% of the workforce is comprised of Millennials, born after 1977, and they will comprise nearly 50% of the workforce by 2015. Operating as efficiently as possible is a minimum expectation.

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Metrics Human Resources Attrition CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Additionally, given the perishable nature of fresh food, stores regularly end up with some surplus produce. billion to 9.8

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Purchasers of healthcare services encounter widely disparate charges across different healthcare delivery systems for equivalent surgical procedures, varying by up to 40%. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015.

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Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

The following is a guest piece by Jessica Leitch, David Lancefield, and Mark Dawson. Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. Fortunately, companies can build the capacity for strategic leadership.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The receptionist or telephone operator. You must perform REMARKABLE or MEMORABLE service for: Following up and thanking customers for an order. Following up and making certain that the service call went perfectly. Return on leadership. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Creating a full set of consistent strategy propositions is, of course, essential, whether a firm follows blue ocean or red ocean strategy. Lastly, Comic Relief donates 100 percent of all funds raised with its golden pound promise that it spends none of the funds on its own overhead or operating costs, as the average UK charity does.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

For start-up ventures with no stake in the old physical economy, this poses no particular challenge – just a wealth of opportunities. To get started, ask yourself the following questions: How might software provide a substitute for your company’s product or service? This is not an easy exercise for anyone.

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