Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Even so, Gartner also predicted that by 2015, 40% of Global 1000 organizations will use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business operations. Wikipedia, “Henry Murray” Wikipedia, “Need theory” To stay up on the latest news and trends in employee gamification, join the Game Changer group on LinkedIn.

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McClelland Arkes Business Objectives Maslow 159

ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

If you looked at their inventories, you would know if the operators were using SAP right, or if they needed some follow-up training. Employees aren’t going to follow your “script.” A version of this post originally ran in my column on the CIO online site on June 30, 2015. Jeremy: Yes. Me: What if you started there?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

With a talent-focused, individualized approach, each worker’s contributions are recognized and supported, and their opinions more valued and decisions followed. Employees are encouraged to show up at work in the fullness of who they are, more disposed to engage when they can be comfortable and open.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

The following is excerpted with permission from From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022) by Marlene Chism. Suppose you disagree with a colleague, but instead of saying “I disagree” and opening up for dialogue, you say, “You have some excellent points, but I have a meeting.

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Workshop Micromanagement Skills Open-book 126

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

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The following is a guest piece from former Microsoft President and Chief Xbox Officer, Robbie Bach. As someone who absolutely loves sports, I follow the fortunes of various teams and often wonder what makes some more successful than others. The short answer is “sort of” which is completely unacceptable.

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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

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2016

Foundational : assessments occurring at a given frequency within a defined time interval typically focused on core business risks, operational goals, and organizational values. These assessments include reviews of the integrated training, execution, and follow-up improvements associated with these events. All rights reserved.

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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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Productivity Products Strategy Covey 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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Covey Deming Six Sigma Efficiency 69

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations.

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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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How To Follow-up Participative Objective 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

Amid improved consumer confidence, with the April 2015 confidence index of 95.2 It’s also advisable for marketers and business owners to take proactive steps to encourage buyers to provide written reviews, whether through a dedicated web page, a follow-up email or phone call, or a reminder next time they stop by to shop with you.

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Crisis Strategy Brand Telemarketing 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 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. It’s a systems/change problem. How We Learn. Or have someone learn? !

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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. It's a systems/change problem. How We Learn. Learning: do you want to train?

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Training Resistance Learning-by-Doing System 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. The following are some tips that will enable you to conduct your global business successfully. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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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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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. One learns three times more clearly when witnessing and analyzing the failures of others they know or have followed. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. They sell what they need to sell, rather than what the client really needs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2018

I believe the smartest choice — one that will help them compete against online retailers like Amazon — is to create a better experience for customers and to achieve operational excellence in stores. There were 662 bankruptcy filings in retail, according to bankruptcydata.com, up 30% from 2016.

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Retail Operations Merchandising Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Building a large-scale biopharmaceutical facility requires up to $500 million. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. Model 1: Virtual operator.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

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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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

On March 3, 2015, hyperlocal social network Nextdoor announced that it had raised $110 million in venture capital. And by August 2015, the team was ready to launch a new posting protocol in its crime and safety section. chuttersnap/unsplash. The deal valued the company at more than $1 billion—revered, unicorn status.

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Agility Report Storytelling Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

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. Why risk it?

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Earlier this week, Nigeria ascended to the position of Africa’s largest economy following a recalculation of its GDP by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn. Global business'

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GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. In fact, AI has freed up the staff to write more in-depth stories on business trends.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

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

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. Thinking ruts.

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How To Creativity Motivation Learning-by-Doing 165

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. °C (3.8°F)

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We need to predict performance for the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15). Performance is bouncing up and down. After staring at the plot a bit longer, most individuals (and all good analytics programs) will spot seasonality: down in first quarters, up in thirds. So what’s the prediction for 2015’s first quarter? They are not.

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Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. For example, as Greece returned to financial crisis in 2015, the IMF forecasted 2.5%

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Marketing GDP Industry Objective 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%. 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.

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Immediately below are highlights from our conversation, followed by the transcription of our entire discussion. So… and also about your childhood, where were you born, where you grew up and maybe a little bit about your family. Really messed-up experiencing strikes, union drives, turnover absenteeism, low commitment, low morale.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Immediately below are highlights from our conversation, followed by the transcription of our entire discussion. So… and also about your childhood, where were you born, where you grew up and maybe a little bit about your family. Really messed-up experiencing strikes, union drives, turnover absenteeism, low commitment, low morale.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations.

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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Up until the 1960s, scholars viewed diversification as a valuable strategy. We believe it was because corporate strategy reflects the views of top decision makers, and therefore change in strategy follows from changes in these views or from a new crop of decision makers — both of which can lag behind business schools’ teachings.

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Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12