ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 7, 2018

They know that culture is the “enabler”—or the “hobbler”—for new strategic plans and directions. The companies with the highest-performing teams and most robust bottom lines make accountability the centerpiece of their culture. Then, dig for additional context with these follow-up questions: What was the situation?

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Core Competence Bottom-up Micromanagement Absenteeism 52

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Numerator thinkers operate with an abundance mentality; denominator thinkers use a scarcity mentality. Say the head of sales needs to get an important package from headquarters to Tenbucktwo by early morning and its way past the final FedEx pick-up. Abandon the bottom of the equation and start being a numerator.

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Innovation Budgeting Strategic Planning Tools 150

Strategy Driven

MARCH 17, 2016

But every dollar spent on consultants should go to bettering your company’s bottom line, not building-up your consultants’ businesses or paying for unnecessary overheads. When the need is temporary, the engagement of high-quality consultants is a great way to fill these gaps.

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Consultative Library Document Strategic Planning 50

Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

Lisser’s book is divided into three parts, each focusing on a crucial aspect of growth: the Planning Advantage, the Execution Advantage, and the Company Advantage. By combining these elements, businesses can align their operations with their long-term goals and set themselves up for enduring success.

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Power Goal Objective Planning 97

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The Big Picture cannot be top-down, nor can the embracing of corporate culture be only from the bottom-up. Never stop planning for the next phase. From careful study (not whims or gut instincts) stem true strategic planning. Be sure that all sectors of the organization participate. Consider leaving a comment!

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Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 78

Steve Farber

JULY 24, 2017

He was born Angelo Siciliano, but he changed his name after going from a skinny weakling to a specimen so ripped he resembled the Greek Titan known for holding up the sky. A century ago, Charles Atlas bulked up to become the most famous bodybuilder of his day. A healthy ROEI includes a healthy bottom line.

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Franchising Entrepreneur Bottom-up Strategic Planning 66

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

By taking stock and planning creatively, then we can and will embody diversity. It is a mindset that must permeate organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up. In either, one element still sinks to the bottom. The premise of multicultural diversity is ambitious and necessary to achieve. Consider leaving a comment!

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Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 84

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

What do great CEOs do when the business model, the strategic plan, and the revenue hurdles don’t seem to be in alignment? The bottom line is this…Bleeding is not a healthy thing. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. They make changes. I Think Not.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 305

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Block provides operational executives and managers with the insight needed to relate ‘shop floor’ decisions and activities with the organization’s financial future. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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Resources Metrics Bottom-up Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It is a mindset that permeates organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up. That means doing things correctly the first time, without wasting counter-productive time in cleaning up mistakes. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. The 1970′s brought the first wave of strategic planning.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Management Craft

APRIL 20, 2011

Internal Brand (or Employer Brand): This is what it is like to work at company XX and the reputation it has as an employer (and these two things may or may not be the same because assumptions that make up a reputation may not be correct). Bottom line: We should know, track, and proactively measure all of these organizational indicators.

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Brand Strategic Planning Reputation Bottom-up 78

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

From pop culture, think of the great role models that we grew up watching: Della Street was the loyal secretary to Perry Mason. Back characters on TV shows included restaurant and bar operators, where the stars went top relax. Contribute to the bottom line, directly and indirectly. Behave as a gracious winner.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. To read Marshall’s complete biography, click here. Click here to cancel reply.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Bottom line…pricing is not a taboo subject to be avoided, but rather a key metric that needs to be well understood as well as proactively measured and managed. Pricing needs to be dealt with in the most embryonic stages of strategic planning and needs to constantly be evaluated based upon changes in market dynamics. .

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

It has a huge impact on the bottom line. He has worked with or led teams working on projects to improve the quality of both products and services, reduce cost and streamline operations. Greg’s latest and most powerful book is guaranteed to get you Fired Up! Creating “happiness” is not just an altruistic thing to do.

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Newsletter Insurance Class Workshop 165

HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

A quarter-century ago, President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act , designed to provide workers up to 12 weeks of job-protected, unpaid leave. At the end of the day, their bottom line depends on employee productivity. Staff More Strategically. Use Temporary Staff More Effectively.

Learning Curve 40

Learning Curve Training Short-term Competitive Advantage 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

If we're to actually get better at innovation, we need to understand the operating conditions that lead to it and move past the bigotry and biases. To do so, let's look at two distinguished firms side by side to see how innovation is entirely independent of size and more a function of different operating rules. Here's the bottom line.

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 20

Strategy Driven

MARCH 8, 2016

If you want to buy, you’ll have to have a large sum of money up front. For example, leasing means you can keep up with developing technology more easily. For example, fuel efficiency is critical for heavy plant operations. Choosing the right equipment is essential for your business’s efficiency and bottom line.

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Tips Comparison Efficiency Cost 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Special Edition 53 – An Interview with Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership examines what it takes to achieve real and meaningful organizational change in a way that improves overall performance and ultimately enhances the bottom line. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

By asking and effectively answering these questions, executives and managers gain the insight necessary to better align their organization’s day-to-day operations to the optimal achievement of mission goals; thereby enhancing overall bottom line results. the key Seven Strategy Questions and what makes them so important.

Simon 50

Simon Strategy Bottom-up Execution 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2010

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Newsletter Career Tools Execution 58

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities.

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Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. Improve productivity, Enhance the bottom line… StrategyDriven Premium Subscriber Login Align Your Organization and Become StrategyDriven! Own your mistakes and always tell the truth – no exceptions.

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Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Additionally, companies with highest levels of employee engagement saw increases in their bottom line: On average they improved 19.2% in operating income, while companies with lower levels declined 32.7% (Towers Watson). The highest priority at 72% was strategic planning and oversight and amongst the lowest was CSR at 2%.

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Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 18

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Johns Hopkins Medicine, for instance, is snapping up hospitals in the Washington, D.C.-area, Blue Cross wrote that TheraMatrix’s operations were “competitive and damaging not only to BCBSM’s financial interests, but also to its business relationships.&# Johns Hopkins is not alone. Click here to cancel reply.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

In fact, surveys over the years have regularly put fear of public speaking right up there with fear of heights, fear of insects, and even fear of death. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. Well, you’re not alone. Click here to cancel reply.

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Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

What are your employees’ retirement plans? How do your organization’s strategic and operational goals inform what work roles will be needed in the future? Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Comments 2 Responses to “The Boomers are Leaving! Who will do this work?

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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

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 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Chinese companies are relatively new to the M&A game, governments in many target markets are quick to detect a political agenda, Chinese companies sometimes struggle to obtain financing or face unexpected political opposition at home, and many acquiring Chinese firms operate in particularly dynamic — and volatile — global markets.

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Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 17

LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

” What you found is actually some evidence of the design thinking mentality and the design thinking process in larger, almost management operations and in strategy making and all of these sort of things that go beyond product design. We didn’t see very many really successful deployments of design thinking from the bottom up.

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Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. It’s up to us to make that connection clear and start getting noticed as the smartwidth source. And that’s what analytics provides.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Followers were expected to keep their heads down, put in an honest days work, and only spoke up when asked. And there are other people who are great at following orders but cause teams to fail because of their reluctance to step up into leadership roles. Followers Get Things Done Better followership often begets better leadership.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The capacity to operate a 747 is incompatible with social media smarts. Hand your marketing team the keys to these social network vehicles, give them a few bucks to spruce up your website with some nice share links, and your job is done. against strategic planning.

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Airlines Media Travel Marketing 16

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. Every sound business initiative begins with a solid strategic plan. Actionable : A successful idea cannot remain in a strategic planning state.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. Improve productivity, Enhance the bottom line… StrategyDriven Premium Subscriber Login Align Your Organization and Become StrategyDriven! Sellers sit and wait while they do them. She lives in Austin, Texas.

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

In a previous role as President of Ziff-Davis Education (now called Element K), Bill oversaw the leading supplier of computer training products worldwide and supervised the operations of ZD University, the leading web-based computer skills site. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Planning Audience Succession Library 50

The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In today’s ever increasing complexity and change, you are being called to operate at a new level of consciousness. While awakening is definitely not a common term within organizations, leaders who operate at a high level of consciousness and being are the awakeners in the business world. It’s a sign your soul is stirring ….

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