HR Digest

MARCH 6, 2020

Cutting costs is the oft-repeated phrase that companies are using to meet the downturn in the economy and the declining revenues and sales. But there are other ways to tighten the belt and do operational budgeting. Team outings can be combined with training and bonding sessions. Training and Mentoring Programs.

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Cost Outsourcing Cost-Benefit Analysis Efficiency 96

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. In this blog, I am not arguing against a clear definition of where a company is going and what sets it apart. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link].

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Blog Mission Statement Strategic Planning Brand 222

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 1, 2018

This is particularly true in today’s complex and uncertain operating environments in which a culture of solidarity and knowledge sharing become critical drivers of staying relevant. It is well understood by psychologists and social scientists that people who laugh together generally have stronger feelings of empathy and bonding.

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Organization Succession CEO Emotional Intelligence 150

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2019

When you’re building your business upwards and outwards, you might consider outsourcing some key components so you can focus on the company from an internal perspective, but you also need to think about accommodating more obvious components on site, or just finding extra space so things can be physically stored. Is It Practical?

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Transportation Budgeting Outsourcing Bond 82

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip. When you take part in gossip you do none of these things.

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Blog Reputation Participative Brand 419

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

A leader who fails to understand this will never create the trust bond necessary to lead effectively. Loyalty is a missing ingredient in job market of both the secular and sacred. Follow Through : It takes no ability to simply do what you say you’re going to do. Would love to teach my staff this lesson with your permission.

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Blog Leadership Loyalty Self-aware 412

Strategy Driven

MARCH 17, 2020

Despite the fact that we’re all living in a digital world these days, there are still a lot of small businesses out there operating without a website. One of the reasons why some business owners choose not to invest in a website for their company is because of their perceived web design prices. A long list of web design services.

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Price Cost Budgeting Bottom-up 76

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The top ten attend the company conference, and the winner brings home a new truck. . But the best things we do at this company, I’ve learned from people in the field. Too many times you have leaders who came out of operations as big shots and become isolated and hear what the world is through 4 or 5 people who report to them.”

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Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 71

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Leaders need to understand that compassion humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence and loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue. Thanks for the astute observations Mark. Mike Henry Sr. Thanks for the great post.

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Blog Leadership Brand Reputation 419

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leaders need to understand that being authentically humble humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence & loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. While feigned humility is the height of insincerity, authentic humility is the most sincere form of confidence and strength.

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Blog Leadership Servant Leader Long-term 419

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust. As much as some don’t want to hear this, there is an “I&# in team because teams are comprised of individuals.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 10

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This is a bonded collaboration toward each other’s success. If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become “management.” This too is your challenge to frame how they see you and your company. ” Approach your career as a body of work. About the Author.

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Predict the biggest crises that can beset your company. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation.and will market their services accordingly. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Let the buyer beware.

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Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

There’s been a ripple of excitement of late as some big companies have unveiled (fairly modest) raises and bonuses for workers. A sound economy, a booming stock market, and huge business tax cuts, the story goes, have convinced CEOs of companies flush with cash to distribute some of it to front-line employees.

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Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

While some companies — most large banks, Ford and GM, Pfizer, and virtually all tech firms — are aggressively adopting artificial intelligence, many are not. Beyond the technical maturity issue, there are several other problems with the idea that companies will be able to adopt quickly once technologies are more capable.

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Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Whole Foods Market’s purpose is to promote healthier eating.

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Company Teamwork Commitment Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Team building basics are often overlooked by ineffective leaders or unproductive companies. I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

When Shanghai Chaori Solar Energy, a Chinese solar cell-maker and power-generator, missed an interest payment on its bonds in February 2014, the Chinese government didn’t intervene. As a result, Shanghai Chaori became the first Chinese company to default on servicing its debt — since 1997. in 2008 after Lehman Brothers went under.

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Real Estate Bond Banking Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In today’s hiring market, a generous benefits package is essential for attracting and retaining top talent. And plenty of smaller companies have received attention for their unusual benefits, such as vacation expense reimbursement and free books. SAS has a college scholarship program for the children of employees.

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Insurance Policies Survey Bond 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Social-media technologies offer plenty of ways for your company to gain valuable insights about your customers and industry — see our previous blog post. But they can also give competitors an up-close-and-personal view into your employees' ideas and your company's product plans, as well as its relationships with customers or clients.

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Company Media Travel Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In the words of its executive vice-president and chief merchandising and marketing officer, “This is really the year of localization.”. The infiltration of technology into every part of our lives has made many people seek out personal, low-tech/high-touch experiences and relationships with the companies they patronize.

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Retail Merchandising Market Penetration Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. But going global is easier said than done — especially for smaller companies. After lunch we would take a tour of that country's operations.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year. The Burn Rate 51 was made up mostly of now-forgotten companies like drkoop.com and CDNow. In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Nice timing, huh?

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Instead, the company called the new iPad just that: “the new iPad.” ” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product.

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Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). I support cause related marketing and have advised many corporations on setting up such programs. No company can cure community problems by itself.

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Franchising Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning 69

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Physical distance: the geographic separation of the members (including differences in time zones) and whether everyone works for the same company or for multiple organizations. Many companies have slashed their travel budgets, especially given the current economic downturn. Don't overestimate the effects of physical distance.

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Team Budgeting Operations Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Last week, LDK Solar , a struggling Chinese manufacturer of solar wafers and panels, announced that it had missed $24 million in bond payments. This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment.

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Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

But before you spend the company’s hard-earned money, you’ve got to prove to your company’s leaders that it’s worth the investment. You’ll likely be asked to show that the return on the investment will be better than your company’s cost of capital. And how your company uses it?

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Cost of Capital Cost Finance Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

After years of observing individual struggles to achieve work-life balance — and of enlightened companies to provide it — I've concluded that one major hurdle is artificial images of perfection. You can have it all. It just won't all be perfect. This is especially true in the U.S., Not exactly your typical job.

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Chief Operating Officer Belief Systems Micromanagement Outsourcing 18

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. For instance, recent Dow Jones research on venture-backed companies in the U.S. Smart companies are watching this trend.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. We called this bonding “tent time.” Many foreign companies decided to write off Ukraine.

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Crisis Management Contingency Plans Objective 8