Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the midst of a fluid labor market in which individuals move from company to company with expected regularity, Chick-fil-A’s corporate staff retention rate has remained at 95-97% for almost 50 years. Different perspectives and experience from other industries can bring invaluable new energy to your team. Expand your search.

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HR Digest

MARCH 6, 2024

There are always other jobs that skilled employees can find without too much of a struggle even in a cooling job market that appears dry of opportunity. There are many reasons why an employee might want to quit but a dislike for the work culture and work ethic of an organization usually tops the list.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 19, 2010

It’s the energy that drives you throughout the day. Filed under: Leadership Tagged: | champions , feedback , listening , process , success « Book Review: Here Comes Everybody Commitment » Like Be the first to like this post. Breakfast: Some say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day; I agree.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

I teach and advise Gen Yers — also known as Millennials (born after 1980) — at the university level in sales and business ethics. Invite these social media-savvy employees to teach other team members to engage prospects and customers to further sales and marketing goals, based on those who are open to receiving messages in new ways.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The opportunity to contribute your time and energy to a cause that you are passionate about. Look at the opportunity strategically and focus not only what you can contribute, but what this commitment can do for you. The opportunity to build relationships that will bring you business. Who are the other board members?

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Without trust, you get nowhere.&# – Jack Trout “Everything in marketing points to the reality that the profitable companies are those that have earned the confidence of their public. They also need to trust that the team members will do what they have committed to do. Followers trust it’s the right direction.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

“ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.” ” “In announcing the arrival of “the ethical consumer,” Time magazine noted: “We are starting to put our money where our ideals are.”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. To prove her commitment to what she calls the ‘lifestyle component’ of her business, her employees participate in a weekly yoga class at the office. Katrina didn’t give up.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

This requires planning, purpose and commitment. How you fulfill commitments and pro-bono work speaks to the kind of professional that you are. The person who never has aggressively pursued a dream or mounted a series of achievements cannot understand the quest of one with a committed dream. You perform your best work for free.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

These disparities are also among the biggest misperceptions that both online and offline marketers hold. Far too many companies are churning out traditional sales lingo laced with fluff and vague, or entirely overinflated, claims, spending paltry little time and energy establishing credibility with prospective customers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. But commitment guides bravery more than an inherent belief in self-ability! Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Don’t be timid.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

And although the retail giant's green efforts have done a lot to showcase the company's commitment to sustainability, sometimes Walmart gives its critics some legitimate ammo, like the recent revelations and allegations of corruption in its Mexican operations. But the immediate market reaction here is fascinating.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It wasn't too long ago that corporations were the villains — polluting the environment , exploiting workers , and consuming energy and other resources without concern for long term consequences to the planet. How much energy are you consuming? As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. , Educate your team.

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Porter and Kramer's Shared Value argument subscribes to the same general principle: if businesses looked beyond quarterly profits, they'd see that dumping PCBs into the local streams (GE, I'm talking to you ) will kill their workforce and a small portion of their market, as well as make them susceptible to a PR hit.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

Company 50

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Key components of courage include clarity of one’s own values, a deep sense of ethicality, being positively self-critical,being able to let go and move on, resilience to setbacks. Hire people who truly love the work they do so they will bring more creativity and energy to their job, your workplace and to your customers.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Steve Farber

MARCH 25, 2009

To their culture, their work ethic, their camaraderie. They felt like a family, he said, committed to doing great work and devoted to one another’s success. And we’ve all spent some amount of time and energy navigating our way through the challenges that come from trying to lead in those conditions. We all know it.

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Mentor Advice Bottom-up Crisis 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. The Shell Foundation provided HPS with market-based expertise and funding to help the company validate and scale its model. Consider these examples: 1.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Not to mention boardroom soap operas, front-page ethics scandals, and more changes of direction than a surfer in a hurricane. What's important about HP is what it says about how hard it is for any organization to maintain its leadership position from one generation of technology and markets and culture to the next. That was 1994.

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Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

As they’d flown to Peoria together on Air Force One, Owens had explicitly stated that the layoffs were an outcome of an international market crash, and the stimulus plan was irrelevant to this particular factory. When utilizing loose ties, leaders need to be mindful of divergent commitments, even when they have a common cause.

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Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Manipulation of energy markets. Of course, these institutions are always challenging aspects of regulatory regimes and engaging in disputes about future laws. LIBOR rate rigging.

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Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

There can be organizational paralysis, or a release of incredible and productive energy, and which of the two happens depends mainly on leadership. Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market. Crisis management Ethics Leadership'

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2. Planning for financial security can free you to focus your energy on other tasks without distraction. Continuous Learning Stagnancy, no matter what the industry, is never an option.

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Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

At Esquel Group, we have been committed to this philosophy over the last three decades and are trying to promote it beyond our corporate boundary. By competing on products, we respond to the market. By competing on serving customers, we can understand, anticipate, stimulate, and influence market demands.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

To get serious results from a network, you need commitment and a continuity of relationships among the participants. As Linda Hill and her colleagues have described, the company needed expert knowledge as it navigated the technically and ethically challenging waters of pharmaceutical development and marketing.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. My advice is find something you can commit 100% of your effort to, and you will succeed.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

We have also committed to economically empowering 5 million women by 2020. Coca-Cola operates in more than 200 countries and the needs of each market depend on a variety of factors. While some markets face economic issues, others may face resource scarcity and gender inequality, and some face all of these issues and more.

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Mark Sanborn

MAY 10, 2019

Apple, for example, has committed to sourcing 100 percent sustainable paper packaging, to protect the world’s remaining virgin forests. As a leader today, you must commit to face-to-face (or at a very minimum, ear-to-ear) interactions with those you lead, no matter how hard it may be to pull yourself away from urgent matters.

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Ethics Business Model Follow-up Innovation 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. We created an expanded vision of customer partnerships with big, market-driven outcomes that the company could rally behind. The Silicon Valley software ethic of running experiments to fail fast and learn has been a cultural challenge for GE, where failure has been frowned upon.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. As the stock market began to take off, though, and options rained down on corporate execs, the compensation tables began to turn, certainly for the top ranks. The temptation to look down on clients.

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality.

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Long-term Benchmarking Quality Process 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. Commitment from workers drops because no corporate culture was created or sustained. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

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