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Execupundit
MAY 21, 2015
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How Not to Screw Up When You’ve Been Screwed Over
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 25, 2014
Accusations make terrible leadership apparel. When I heard his story, I wanted to scream with him and for him. But screaming at water under the bridge just brings more rapids. I paused for what was an uncomfortably long time. Then, I whispered, “I know this hurts. But you have to stop.
What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.
In the CEO Afterlife
MARCH 18, 2015
Back in the ‘90s, LEGO had cluttered its corporate structure with the complexity that comes with acquiring a variety of businesses from apparel to theme parks. Management power rests with focused strategies on two product categories, athletic shoes and apparel.
My Favorite Podcasts — Tim Ferriss.
Rich Gee Group
MARCH 3, 2015
Ryan Holiday, author of The Obstacle Is The Way, started as a Director of Marketing at American Apparel at age 21 (!). If you know me, I am an avid podcast listener.
Why Hippies Make Great Business Leaders
Great Leadership By Dan
MAY 12, 2016
Judith Goldhaft employed the assistance of fabric designer and fellow hippie gal, Jodi Palladini, to create an apparel design that would permit San Francisco’s homeless women to sell their very own fabric creations. Guest post from Michael Klassen : After three decades of working in marketing, I thought I had heard or read nearly every story of innovation and entrepreneurship out there. Then I uncovered a story of business invention and reinvention that nobody knew anything about.
3 Ways to Develop Winning Team Spirit
Michael Lee Stallard
SEPTEMBER 17, 2016
Today, Varsity Brands includes Varsity Spirit, BSN Sports (sports apparel, footwear, and equipment) and Herff Jones (school graduation and achievement products). Photo of Jeff Webb courtesy of Varsity Brands.
Why You Should Bring a Startup Founder Mindset To Your Leadership
Terry Starbucker
JUNE 7, 2015
Danny Clancy of Homeschool Apparel ). Look at business like a labyrinth, not a maze (thanks Ken Tomita of Grovemade). OK, I’m going to come clean here. I’m pretty set in my ways.
What’s The Truth About Your Leadership?
Tanveer Naseer
MAY 19, 2015
In my previous piece, I looked at an underlying theme found among the numerous issues leaders in every industry face today and what this tells us about how we can be more successful in bringing out the best in those we lead.
15 Nuggets of Wisdom From 15 Entrepreneurs
Terry Starbucker
JUNE 16, 2013
“Act small, think small” – Scott Hamlin , Co-founder of Looptworks , who makes apparel and accessories that are made by “upcycling” excess manufacturing materials. What are the secrets to entrepreneurial success?
Nike’s Co-founder on Innovation, Culture, and Succession
Harvard Business Review
JULY 13, 2017
Phil Knight, former chair and CEO of Nike, tells the story of starting the sports apparel and equipment giant after taking an entrepreneurship class at Stanford and teaming up with his former track coach, Bill Bowerman. Together (and with the help of a waffle iron) they changed how running shoes are designed and made. Knight discusses the company’s enduring culture of innovation, as well as the succession process that led to former runner and Nike insider Mark Parker becoming CEO.
Lands’ End Contest Confirms Strategic Role of Pinterest for Brands
C-Level Strategies
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Though most of my time is spent helping companies create and communicate clear and compelling visions to grow their businesses exponentially, my conversations with C-level executives often turn to the topic of social media.
Financial Fluency and A Leadership Opportunity
Great Leadership By Dan
MAY 31, 2012
While speaking this last week to one of the largest apparel companies in the country, I led an exercise that became an “Aha!” I did this recently at a large apparel company by drawing a simple circular diagram of the different ways we talk about sales. Guest post by Alan E.
The Fall of Competitive Advantage and the Rise of Transient Advantages
LDRLB
JULY 17, 2013
One such Strategista is Kay Krill, CEO of Ann Taylor (and Loft), a “ bellwether ” woman’s apparel retail store. “Strategy is stuck.
REI Sets The Example For Creating And Living Core Values
Eric Jacobson
JANUARY 22, 2012
You can learn from Recreational Equipment Incorporated , better known as REI -- an outdoor gear and apparel co-op. Are you a leader who is struggling with how to write your company's core values?
How Consumer Brands Can Connect with Customers in a Changing Retail Landscape
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 4, 2017
The accessories and apparel designer uses in-store radio-frequency identification to send clothing items to dressing rooms, helps customers choose different styles and sizes, and shows stock availability in stores and online. Retailer relationships can impose varying levels of constraint in D2C selling — less for apparel, perhaps, and more for CPG. But brick-and-mortar retail doors are closing, especially for apparel, as shoppers take their business online.
A Monster of an Idea
In the CEO Afterlife
MARCH 26, 2012
On top of that, I found the Monster logo on an array of items ranging from apparel to condoms – so much for the branding principles in Al Reis and Jack Trout’s best seller, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing.
The Alchemy of Culture: 4 Key Ingredients from the Founder of Qor
Steve Farber
OCTOBER 25, 2016
And we know his latest venture, men’s sports apparel startup, Qor (pronounced “core”), is already achieving over 30% yearly growth in part because it’s replicating the Athleta culture of caring.
How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation
Harvard Business Review
JULY 8, 2016
The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive.
Zappos and the Connection Between Structure and Strategy
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 3, 2015
The size of the apparel market only in the U.S. Hsieh recognized that it would take further innovation to reach more customers in other segments of the vast apparel market.
Patagonia's "Buy Less" Campaign May Lead to More Revenue
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Patagonia has always behaved as a maverick company, and its concern for sustainability has led it to pursue a new initiative: it's now actively encouraging consumers to buy less of Patagonia's new apparel. To put its buy-less idea into action, Patagonia recently partnered with eBay to enable consumers to resell their used Patagonia apparel via the Common Threads Initiative within eBay. Sell More New Apparel. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line.
Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?
Harvard Business Review
MAY 26, 2016
To examine this possibility, I conducted research on recent developments in Nike Inc’s apparel supply chain with Jens Hainmueller of Stanford University and Richard M.
Guest Post: 3 Steps to Magnetic Leadership
Lead on Purpose
JUNE 2, 2012
My largest client is in the apparel industry with a multiplicity of brand names. By Alan E. Shelton. Perhaps one of the thorniest problems in business today, is how to create quality output without being specifically in charge. Product managers in coalition organizations know this all too well. How do you drive your goals when you are not in a line on an organizational chart? As a result, their organizational structure is not dependent on the normal hierarchal approach.
On or About the Night Prior to Christmas
Execupundit
DECEMBER 10, 2011
A variety of foot apparel, e.g. stocking, socks, etc., Back by popular demand: From the lawyer's version of T'was the Night Before Christmas: Whereas, on or about the night prior to Christmas, there did occur at a certain improved piece of real property (hereinafter "the House") a general lack of stirring by all creatures therein, including, but not limited to a mouse. had been affixed by and around the chimney in said House in the hope and/or belief that St. Nick a/k/a/ St.
Bad Moves Update: Macy's Trumps Itself
Execupundit
JULY 2, 2015
Does this bizarre decision to dump Trump's goods imply that Macy's approves of the political and labor policies of the apparel lines it did not drop? Fortune : Macy's is dropping Donald Trump merchandise in order to show disapproval of his remarks about Mexican immigrants.
Pamela Fields (Stetson) in “The Corner Office”
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 2, 2011
Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Pamela Fields, chief executive of Stetson, the hat and apparel company “People know that they can come to me and [.]. Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times.
Sustainability 3.0: When Products' True Costs Are Covered
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 10, 2011
The breakthrough comes when the largest companies in a sector decide to develop a sustainability index they will all live by, as is happening now in the apparel and footwear industry.
Making Personalized Marketing Work
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
If somebody listens to a “Morning Run” playlist, Spotify might deliver ads for running shoes or athletic apparel. Let’s face it — U.S.
Business Model Innovation is the Gift that Keeps on Giving
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 5, 2012
Within the first 5 years of its founding, Amancio Ortega, the founder of Zara figured out the responsiveness and speed were key to dominance in apparel retail as opposed to costs so Zara produced in expensive locations and used expensive shipping modes to react to trends faster.
How to Find Meaning in a Job That Isn’t Your “True Calling”
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 3, 2017
” Life Is Good is an apparel company best known for colorful T-shirts with stick-figure designs, but its mission is to spread optimism and hope throughout the world, and that’s something that even warehouse employees understand. Why do so few people find fulfillment in their work? A few years ago I posed this question to Amy Wrzesniewski, a Yale School of Management professor who studies these issues, and she offered an explanation that made a lot of sense.
Inventory Management in the Age of Big Data
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 24, 2015
There are some notable exceptions in industries such as online apparel retailing, where companies can view real-time, customer-purchase decisions (e.g., We are on the verge of a major upheaval in the way inventory is managed.
Why the Print Catalog Is Back in Style
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
Outdoor and apparel retailer L.L.Bean says it is experimenting with the page count of the catalogs it sends to regular website shoppers.
Marketing’s Mission: Make it Meaningfully Different
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 25, 2013
Founded in 1998, Lululemon produces sports apparel for women that is fashionable, environmentally friendly, and as technically advanced as sports apparel for men. Everything you do in business builds your brand for good or ill, as your actions generate feelings, associations, and ideas in the minds of your consumers. The challenge is to make sure those actions create a meaningfully different experience that people want to repeat.
The Benefits of Unplugging as a Team
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 8, 2015
We recently worked with apparel industry leaders from design, sourcing, manufacturing, and brand management to prototype a more innovative, responsive, and responsible supply chain.
Store Brands Aren’t Just about Price
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 15, 2015
These purpose driven supers felt an extraordinarily deep level of emotion for the retailer brand at levels typically associated powerful lifestyle brands in apparel and luxury goods.
Luxury Brands Can No Longer Ignore Sustainability
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on.
Study: Customers Really Do Trust Family Businesses More
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 27, 2015
“The ‘family’ attribute has a different meaning depending on your target customer,” said Andrew Steiner, vice-president of marketing and customer operations for Ameripride, which has been supplying laundered apparel and linens to restaurants and auto shops since 1889.
Give Your Business a Competitive Advantage with this 4-Letter Word
Steve Farber
JANUARY 9, 2017
Under Armour–which has gone from start-up to a competitive player in the ultra-tough sports apparel business in just 10 years–is an example of this formula in action. It’s just damn good business. I know this to be true. I also understand a broader reality: Many leaders don’t buy it. Even if they agree in spirit, they reject the idea in practice. They think it is idealistic, naive, and impractical. So they don’t spend much time cultivating love at work.
Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 7, 2016
Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. As consumers, we are very wasteful.
20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better
In the CEO Afterlife
APRIL 24, 2017
Today, 40% of Nike’s revenue comes from apparel and sporting goods. What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. Do Less Better is the name of my book. Do Less Better is also a culture and a strategy of organizations and their leaders.
You Can’t Understand China’s Slowdown Without Understanding Supply Chains
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
In contrast, it will be easier for footwear and apparel companies to move to lower-cost locations. HBR STAFF. The last few weeks have brought news of turmoil in China, including currency devaluations, an economic slowdown, and a stock market plunge. Most economists, including those at the the IMF , think it is premature to talk about an economic crisis.
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