HR Digest

JANUARY 14, 2023

It’s no news that the business world will experience changes in management in 2023. And HR is going to have to keep up. HR leaders are always looking for ways to improve their employees’ lives and the company’s bottom line. What are some expected changes in management in 2023?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Leaders who don’t understand the value of distributable and actionable knowledge not only limit opportunities, but they’re also building huge contingent operating liabilities. It’s one thing to possess knowledge, but it’s quite another thing to leverage it.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. Part four will balance needs with compromises and float tangential opportunities to expand horizons and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘pink giraffe’ management candidate. The bar is set high.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Guest post from Larry Sternberg and Kim Turnage: What would your organization be like if every employee had a great manager? In every organization, managers are a key leverage point to drive higher performance and better business results. The impact managers have on turnover and engagement go straight to the organization’s bottom line.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It lowers costs, reduces the risk of accidents and improves inventory management, along with many other benefits. However, keeping your warehouse in prime condition is more difficult in practice, as every warehouse manager will know. Clean Warehouse and Reduced Operational Costs A clean warehouse is an efficient warehouse.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. Authenticity. We need to make our interactions count.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Structure, strategy, people, management style, systems and procedures, guiding concepts and shared values, and corporate strengths and skills, along with financial performance, served as criteria for selecting excellent companies.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

The hotel opened in 705 AD and is still operating. Professor Makoto Kanda from Meiji Gakuin University studied the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel and other long-term operating businesses to understand their longevity. Quantitative measurements do help people manage more efficiently. Impressive. His findings?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2020

Bottom-line performance is a vital aspect of any business. Managers and people in higher positions, in general, are always looking for ways to improve bottom-line operations and minimize the risks. Risk management helps them stay on top of the market challenges and trends in the relevant industry. Digitization.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Too often, information technology and operational tools are minimized as costs to be controlled. If you screw up, own it. Clearly, excessive cost control at the risk of the companies operational foundation played a role.

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Airlines Leadership Short-term Long-term 188

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. A leader simply operates at their best when they understand their ability to influence is much more fruitful than their ability to control. Bottom line – what you do or don’t surrender to will define you.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

This book helps managers understand the postmodern worldview held by generation Z and younger millennials, how it influences their behaviour at work, and how they want to be led in the workplace. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Books Leadership 274

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

Logic tells us we can manage cause, but only measure effect. Shifting to cause-based analysis of results positions leaders to laser-target interventions – coaching, guiding, managing or taking direct action – to change the trajectory of outcomes. There are three paradoxes to navigate in making the shift to Leading by Cause : .

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Leading executive search firms operate in very specific ways to find top leaders who can take a company to its desired future state. While executive search firms have been around for decades, there’s been a recent, revolutionary shift in the ways executive search firms operate. How do executive search firms work?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

This transactional stuff is all part of being a manager. These priceless individuals value results and the bottom line. The leaders people want to follow balance bottom-up and top-down decision-making. Genuine leaders manage with their head and lead with their heart. Every boss gives orders and assigns work.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Other leaders operated machines. Well, they were made up of interchangeable parts. Leaders aren’t super-powerful beings that design and operate organizations. They’re made up of unique human beings, not interchangeable parts. Give up control. Children may pull up plants for fun. Bottom Line.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

Managers are the people that lead a team, give instruction, and see that an organization’s goals are achieved, be it production, branding, or more. In Organizational parlance, there are four types of managers, the c-suite executives, the mid-level, the frontline managers, and the team leaders. Middle managers.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2023

The concept of empowerment, which enables individuals or teams to make responsible decisions about their jobs, is essential for managing the complexity of production. One of the examples they found was the e-kanban, a digital workflow board, developed to help operators visualize the stock levels of different tire models.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. His story is told in Made from Scratch. Most [leaders] are made.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bottom line, organizations are seeking to reconstitute themselves as a network of teams, ditching the traditional hierarchy. Leaders are at the bottom of the pyramid supporting those in the team above them and not the other way around. Simon operates from London with a Dublin-based support office. Not really.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Creating good jobs In The Case for Good Jobs , MIT Sloan’s Zeynep Ton suggests this should be the wake-up call employers need to ensure that they’re providing good jobs to people so that they’re both better able to attract but also retain the people they will be increasingly hard-pressed to recruit.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2023

While some of these elements are within a business owner’s control, others are external forces that require a well-thought-out strategy to manage. The repercussions of water damage are far-reaching, potentially causing extensive property damage, interrupting business operations, and leading to substantial financial losses.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Invest in Technology Too often, information technology and operational tools are minimized as costs to be controlled. Accept Responsibility If you screw up, own it. Southwest knows they screwed up.

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Airlines Leadership Short-term Long-term 130

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

I would caution that size is not always an indicator of success, and more importantly, not a risk mitigator,” said Kelli Vukelic, CEO of N2Growth, a Philadelphia-based management consulting and executive search firm. “A Vukelic served as the chief operating officer of N2Growth. Typically, Ms. Earlier, Ms.

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Execution Chief Operating Officer Brand Class 392

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Bottom Line—face reality—the good, the bad, and the ugly! Help people see themselves operating in the new environment. At regular intervals, provide up-to-date information on progress and problems. Open up and share what you are thinking and feeling. Don’t surround yourself with “yes people.” Determine What’s Possible.

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Process Leadership Tips Open-book 279

Lead from Within

MAY 31, 2022

If your skills are more focused in other areas of leadership, here are some tips that can help you increase your influence in every direction—up, down and across. They understand every level of their organization, top to bottom. The post How To Increase Your Influence—Up, Down And Across appeared first on Lolly Daskal.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2019

In that time, the company had at least one management fad per year. The executive signs the company up for everything. A top executive gets bored with day-to-day, boring yet efficient and profitable operations. He or she decides change will spice things up. Boss’s Bottom Line. See paragraph above.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Its performance determines the health of your daily operations and the long-term success of your enterprise. When something’s wrong, the pain can be acute—even bad enough to keep the company on the floor, unable to get up. Your supply chain is the backbone of your company. Like a backbone, your supply chain is a complex mechanism.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 26, 2023

Introduction Real estate companies are continuing to embrace technological change for the benefit of their operations. Requests can also be made by clients within the portal, which can then be quickly picked up by your employees. This allows you to attract more investors to your projects and manage your ongoing relationships.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Warehouses play a vital role in the supply chain and can, therefore, have a dramatic impact on your business’ bottom line. Of course, having a small amount of safety stock is always sensible, but you should reduce this to the bare minimum if you want to run a really smooth operation. Photo courtesy of Pixabay. Make Safety a Priority.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

In today’s business environment, project managers are now recognized for their critical role in keeping essential business functions running smoothly. As such, there’s been a corresponding boom in demand for workers with project management skills. Change Management. Business Expertise.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Amazon’s impact is so pervasive that business leaders in nearly every sector around the world need to understand how this force of nature operates. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

The bottom line is when you don’t do what you say you will do, or when others have unclear expectations about what you will do, it will result in disappointment, lack of engagement and trust and compromised integrity. When you are not able to keep your word (or keep it on time), let everyone know immediately and clean up the mess this causes.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 19, 2020

Organizations have undergone massive shifts over the last decade in terms of how they operate. They prefer a bottoms-up approach, and want to feel involved and valued in the workplace. I took the first letter of each trait and came up with the word … CHAMELEON. Nine clear leadership traits emerged.

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Leadership Human Resources Bottom-up Survey 267

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Today, leaders need to be able to combine operational business expertise with high levels of emotional intelligence. According to the 2019 People Management Report conducted by The Predictive Index , nearly 30% of team members believe that their direct line managers and leaders lack the prerequisite skills to build effective teams.

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Emotional Intelligence Bond Teamwork Human Capital 173

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. A leader simply operates at their best when they understand their ability to influence is much more fruitful than their ability to control.

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