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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

In the CEO Afterlife

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. Mired in the complexity of an unrelated product line, Campbell’s leaders keep plugging along trying to do more of the same, only better. They are kidding themselves.

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Using Underdog Narratives To Motivate Teams

The Horizons Tracker

” The researchers offer instances from several industries such as sports, telecommunications, apparel, and automotive, to demonstrate how leaders utilize underdog narratives to motivate and fulfill their organizations’ objectives.

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5 Convincing Benefits of Sustainable Business Practices

Strategy Driven

Modern-age consumers favor businesses that promote social and ethical values and support the marginalized. Thus, they are working towards making their apparel and accessories more sustainable. Enhanced corporate social responsibility. The cruciality of corporate social responsibility cannot be stressed enough in today’s world.

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REI Sets The Example For Creating And Living Core Values

Eric Jacobson

You can learn from Recreational Equipment Incorporated , better known as REI -- an outdoor gear and apparel co-op. Integrity -- We live by a code of rock-solid ethics, honesty, and decency. Are you a leader who is struggling with how to write your company's core values? Respect -- We listen and learn form each other.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

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. In the mid-2000s, Nike embarked on a program to introduce lean manufacturing to its apparel suppliers in the developing world. Locke of Brown University.

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Moral Hazard at News Corp.

Harvard Business Review

While we readily recognize such a hazard in the food and apparel industries and the need to "secure" all elements of their production chain, most other industries have yet to recognize such a hazard. The hired hands at News of the World , however, did not have to respect this code of ethics.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

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. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines.

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