Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2008

Set up frank conversations to find out what they would like to be doing, and what drives them to do their best. For example, developing and launching a new product or heading up a new initiative or team. For example, improving the bottom line of a new service or marketing a failed product to a new segment. -

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Leadership Development Development Mentor Leadership 120

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Lockdowns and virus-testing have only begun ramping up in many parts of the world, so the full magnitude of the economic impact is yet unknown. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. When it comes to short-term incentives…. Monitor Impact.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

After the two months, extra meetings to follow-up on the action plan are optional. Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. 2) Adopt the new philosophy. Business plan.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Setting up an Agile based environment for any work group or business. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation. Small groups of say 2 or 3 members, not part of a larger operation, can share and/or rotate the roles of Scrum Master and Product Owner.

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Agility Project Software Short-term 71

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

” The objective was clear, I wanted to unpack the lessons on how Iron Sharpens Iron ; how you, improve others. I led a discussion on leadership principles and mindset and let the room evolve into an open debate on what was working and what was harmful in day to day operations. Delhi, India.

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Followers were expected to keep their heads down, put in an honest days work, and only spoke up when asked. The better employees are attracted to jobs that make a difference to customers, fellow employees, or the communities they live in and they are much more willing to raise objections when they feel inhibited from making that difference.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Lilly Li, a bird-like woman with a pleasant smile, who had been running operations in Hungary for two years, raised her hand: “Trust has been a big challenge for us, as Hungarians do not take the same time to build personal relationships as we do in China.”. The Chinese participants listened carefully.

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Objective Participative Long-term Diversity 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

If you were to make a list of up-and-coming business trends, social media strategies would probably be near the top. Actually, scratch that “up-and-coming” part – social media is already here. Sure, it may sound intimidating, but don’t give up yet. Far from it, actually. And that’s just for starters.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

In particular, the tremendous growth of Bangladesh’s ready-made-garment sector (RMG) – from 50 factories in the 1980s to close to 5,000 today, making up 13% of the country’s GDP – hasn’t translated to marked improvements in social protections and standards of living.

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Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 8

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Not surprisingly, these archetypes reflect both top-down and bottom-up styles. In the descriptions that follow, you can see that different kinds of organizations or situations with different kinds of objectives call for different kinds of leadership. However, once they do, landlords define the rules of participation.

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Sports Creativity Bottom-up Motivation 260

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

In 10 separate investigations with nearly 5,000 participants, we examined what self-awareness really is, why we need it, and how we can increase it. (We We are currently writing up our results for submission to an academic journal.). The bottom line is that self-awareness isn’t one truth.

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Self-aware How To Learning-by-Doing Participative 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The posters prominently featured the product name, the former (higher) price, the new (lower) price, and the message “more to come” at the bottom. The truth is that Amazon loves to talk about price and never misses an opportunity to initiate or participate in a discussion about it. Penney went up by 50%.

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Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

QAspire

APRIL 14, 2013

In such meetings, people often end up providing views, cite examples from the past, outline the lessons learned. Not Starting with You: As a leader, it all starts with one’s own willingness to look at shortcomings objectively. Non-participation: Reflection is a highly collaborative sport. Hansei is an attitude, a way of working.

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Kaizen After Action Review Quality Bottom-up 149

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

After repurposing many of the original structures and facades, the district is now evolving into a retail, restaurant, arts, and culture destination, a forum for local events, a flexible work space for businesses, and a residential area, all while evolving its manufacturing with 21 st century operations.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing analytics approach can unlock 10–20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line. Together with the CFO, the CMO must develop a set of objectives that directly deliver on financial objectives and business goals.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you’re still asking these questions WAKE-UP – get your head out of the sand, and stop broadcasting your ignorance. The one thing that each of the personal and corporate brands profiled in the video all had in common is that they leveraged social media influence to accomplish their objectives.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you still don’t know whether or not your attitude is affecting your performance, I would strongly suggest participation in a 360 review process where your strengths and weakness are objectively assessed by those whom you interface with on a frequent basis. Bottom line: serving oneself just doesn’t work for anyone!

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Fundamentals of managing an organization : (Forecast & Plan) – Examining the future and drawing up a plan of action. To organize – Build up the structure, both material and human, of the undertaking. Specific objectives for each member, Participative decision making, Explicit time period, and. Measurable.

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Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

In this test, participants play the part of factory workers who are attempting to fit red beads into 50 indentations on a paddle. Deming offered up 14 principles that stood in stark contrast to the sorts of practices he thought were eroding the performance of top corporations in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Deming Management Senge Taylorism 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Although it is too early to tell if Tunisia and Egypt will prove the exceptions rather than the rule when it comes to dramatic political transitions in the Middle East, multinationals operating in the region have already faced significant losses. Lafarge , the French cement group, saw its share price fall four percent in one day.

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Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

According to Forbes , “Content marketing is a marketing technique of creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action.” Stay real, and share the stories that matter and don’t give up.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

The least charitable explana­tion for this oversight is that despite evidence to the contrary, many senior managers still assume that a few genetically blessed souls are innately crea­tive, while the rest can’t come up with anything more exciting than suggestions for the cafeteria menu. Comprehensive innovation metrics.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Bottom line: I’m not sure that the collective body of those who have uttered the mantra of “Culture Trumps Strategy&# actually disagree with me on anything other than how we choose to express our views. Of course, strategy without a good culture is like pushing a rock up hill. I think not, and I’ll explain why.

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Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 366