Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

Riverside Auto Group, a second-generation company owned equally by three brothers, operates seven dealerships employing 190 people throughout Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Marquette, Escanaba, and Iron Mountain) and Wisconsin (Marinette). Customer complaints are down from one a week to one a quarter. And read on… there are even more!

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

To illustrate this, we need look no further than one of the most famous case studies in professional ethics. One of the managers involved in the affair was an idealistic young man named Dennis Gioia, who went into the auto industry to make a contribution to society. The problem was not bad people, but bad thinking.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

This focus on short-term challenges neglects the development of essential management and leadership skills. Work Based Learning Lead, phs I know more about budgeting, about innovation, about how to manage the finance side of a business, I know more about commerciality and strategy.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 25, 2023

Situational Performance Ownership is available in four critical modalities—in-person instructor-led training (ILT), virtual instructor-led training (vILT), digital blended and self-paced—and the program’s modern design features accessibility compliance, reinforcement and practice, facilitator feedback as well as engaging case study videos.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

The term “drive performance” is popular in a bottom-line, transactional world made up of managers and executives who lead through their positional authority. What makes them stand out is an intrinsic motivation to share power and release control. It’s still the prevalent way most companies operate.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. In order to maximize our learning we have to be sensitive to and manage our emotions.” More than ever, it truly is learn or die. So to a large degree is means overcoming our humanness.

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Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hedge Case Study 281

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. Do we join hands and sing Kumbaya?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Develop attitudes, behaviors and skills as the motivator to create bigger successes. By studying swings of the pendulum (likelihoods of failures), one better understands their progress. Most people and organizations fail due to never having control over certain ingredients, improper planning and the inability to change.

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Succession Due Diligence Budgeting Risk Management 82

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The primary step involves an objective assessment to determine operational efficiency and effectiveness.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

Lead purposeful and inclusive digital-first meetings: When managing hybrid teams, leaders must think asynchronously and reconsider if a meeting is necessary, be diligent about sharing meeting agendas and pre-reads ahead of time, as well as capture and share action items post-meeting. Gloria Chen, CHRO, Adobe.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I call this ‘managing yourself smart,’ and here are some guidelines to help navigate social media. Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! Inspire and motivate.

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Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 28, 2013

Daniel Pink argues that ROWE is effective because it provides employees autonomy, i.e. control over their environment, which is intrinsically motivating. [ii] In one example, Suntell, a company that sells loan risk management software adopted a ROWE strategy. iii] Results Only Work Environment Case Study: GAP. [iv]

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Backed by a lot of research and some interesting case studies, the authors offer a wealth of provocative ideas on how to operate in the age of the internet. If you’ve been trying to figure out what it takes to lead and thrive in the information economy, you need to take a look at this book.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But not ever as fast as the manager wants!” ” “Where is the manager?” The manager says I’m the only one she trusts with the toilets.”

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Next Level Blog

JULY 23, 2010

I have the feeling that the disaster in the Gulf will be fodder for leadership case studies for years to come. Isn't it terrible that some business unit leaders, directors and managers managed to protect their image while killing so many people and creating such a horrible travesty. Posted by: Mike Henry Sr.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain. Be proactive.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

How do you motivate someone much older or much younger than you? Organizational careers don’t look the way they did before,” says Peter Cappelli, professor of management at the Wharton School and coauthor of Managing the Older Worker. It’s more common to see someone younger managing someone older.” What the Experts Say.

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HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

HR analytics, also known as people analytics or workforce analytics, is a data-driven approach that empowers Human Resources Management (HRM) by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting HR data. The term Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) emerged as organizations recognized the critical role HR plays in driving business success.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

When your business is facing declining sales, a potential buy-out, or even certain closure, how do you manage people who are likely panicking about their future? Can you keep your team’s motivation and productivity up? In a crisis, you may think you need a whole new set of management approaches. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

But the rules and expectations are different when you’re managing a freelancer who isn’t fully employed by your company. How do you best motivate someone who you don’t have formal authority over? “You shouldn’t have to manage the work product of a contractor. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In his introduction to Working , the landmark 1974 oral history of work, Studs Terkel positioned meaning as an equal counterpart to financial compensation in motivating the American worker. Often, the people “in the trenches” (retail floor clerks, assembly line workers) have valuable insights into how operations can be improved.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But a lot of service businesses are managed according to old ideas imported from more traditional industries, says Ryan Buell, UPS Foundation Associate Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School (HBS). The case explores this process through the example of Cineplanet, a leading movie cinema chain in Peru.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. Managers meet regularly, not just annually, with individual employees.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

But a lot of service businesses are managed according to old ideas imported from more traditional industries, says Ryan Buell, UPS Foundation Associate Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School (HBS). The case explores this process through the example of Cineplanet, a leading movie cinema chain in Peru.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

It’s your job to figure out your customer’s motivations: “What would it take to get your boss to sign off on a project or to get your clients excited about what you have to offer?” Case Study #1: Develop an understanding of your customer’s needs, and show empathic concern. ” says Edinger.

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Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 21

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. See More Videos > See More Videos > In order to understand how firms have systematically enhanced trust in applied AI, my colleagues Monika Hengstler and Selina Duelli and I conducted nine case studies in the transportation and medical device industries. Related Video.

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Technology Transportation Influence Resistance 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Operating in the world of uncertainty requires different thinking and different skills. It is extremely dangerous to operate product development processes at heavy loading because this generates expensive delays. Why isn't this managed well today? What Doesn't Motivate Creativity Can Kill It.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

I asked the class: “What steps should the team leader in this case study take to manage different attitudes towards confrontation on the team?”. These tendencies have been borne out in my own interviews with multi-cultural managers. Coaching Managing people Organizational culture'

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2020

And because of that, the modern workplace is a more successful operation than ever. A Motivational Factor. Your employees need to stay motivated in order to succeed. But how do you go about including an ever present motivational factor? With that in mind, we’ve detailed the most important below.

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Succession Motivation Outsourcing Case Study 74

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. “There are four ratios common in every company: profitability, leverage, liquidity, and operational efficiency,” he says. Still lacking motivation?

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Finance Skills EBITDA Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

How you managed people there will not work here. The assumption that people are motivated differently around the world — especially in Asia — and that leaders must adapt their behavior accordingly is wrong. Having led and managed people in eight countries across three continents, I have found the exact opposite to be true.

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Airlines Mentor Environment Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

At these moments, it's easy to feel stuck between your bosses and the people you manage. It's very rare people don't want to know the news even if it's bad," says Michael Useem, the William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management at the Wharton School and author of " Four Lessons in Adaptive Leadership." Question your motives.

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Information Team Hotels Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

But don’t assume your impressive résumé will guarantee you an offer, says Berrin Erdogan, a professor of management at Portland State University and the lead author of a recent study on the subject. “Hiring managers are not always eager to bring on someone who is overqualified.”

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How To Long-term Marketing Case Study 13

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. Managers meet regularly, not just annually, with individual employees.

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