Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

The first step towards customizing your change management approach is defining your change. In order to improve results, a manufacturer sought to involve more people in developing and implementing creative solutions. An airline adopted Lean Six Sigma concepts to increase agility and reduce waste across the operation.

Six Sigma 60

Six Sigma Agility Franchising Airlines 60

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Often this meant trying to read Mapquest directions while driving on a highway or in the dark.

Press Release 160

Press Release Succession Discount PR 160

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

To compensate your side of this seesaw, creative shortcuts cultivate new directions for building business and explore the inspiring nature of change. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. The most creative approaches will get the most attention.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How creative must we become in the New Order of Business? Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. This book states the case for more of a macro-focused approach to management. How far will we go to excel?

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. And short-term numbers at that.

Levitt 10

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

A district sales manager says: "These district sales rankings are unfair. Coaching and performance management. If sales managers know account potential, they can coach salespeople on the best strategies for driving revenue growth. A salesperson says: "My quota is 10% higher than last year. For example: • Targeting.

Retail 9

Retail Incentives Tactics Pharmaceuticals 9