HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. When it comes to internal communication, many organizations are primarily focused on direct and frequent communications from leadership urging their people to be calm about how they deal with the aftermath. Spanish flu). Sales Compensation.

Short-term 59

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. When it comes to internal communication, many organizations are primarily focused on direct and frequent communications from leadership urging their people to be calm about how they deal with the aftermath. Spanish flu). Sales Compensation.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Leadership does not begin the when you step upon the first rung of the management ladder. And when you fail to demonstrate traits critical to successful leadership, the expectations of your colleagues and subordinates are dashed. But, leadership isn’t always directing others. Leadership Comes in All Shapes and Sizes.

Report 100

Report Career Discount Mentor 100

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

That was when the big discounts were available because the sales team was under goal. I see the splitting into quarters concept, but that organisation, certainly at that time, did 80% or more of its business in September from the sales order closing and renewals business. Customers knew this. Unported License.

Goal 230

Goal Licensing Ethics Discount 230

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change. As owners of private label food products and shelf space, large food retailers can play a leadership role here.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

While this has always been a truism about great leadership, in our world of repetitive volatility, a leader's ability to manage his or her own internal experience around stress and use it to focus his or her team is crucial. Large discounters (most significantly Walmart) had entered the grocery business and intended to dominate it.

Leadership 14

Leadership Stress Long-term Morale 14

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Welcome to the February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. To help guide your way through, we’ve divided the posts up by the three categories we at LDRLB tend to see the world through: leadership, innovation, and strategy. Leadership. Wally Bock at Three Star Leadership on why Questions are Our Friends. Innovation.

Leadership Development 167

Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 167

The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

” These shifts have profound implications for leadership and culture. And don’t delegate purpose to marketing. ” Discount retailer: “ Making our customers’ lives better through lower prices, greater selection, and higher value.” Creating leadership energy is an inside job.

Mintzberg 111

Mintzberg Pharmaceuticals Energy McKinsey 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The company’s market value has more than halved to an 11-year low as it acknowledged overstating profits by hundreds of millions of dollars. Many analysts and unhappy investors point to Tesco’s ill-fated Fresh & Easy convenience store foray in America just as the global financial crisis kicked in.

Retail 8

Retail Loyalty Supply Chain Discount 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 28, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 3 For Your Leadership Reading List: The Half-Full Book Review by Starbucker on January 28, 2010 As the big stack on my desk attests, I love to read books that expand my knowledge and offer new insights on topics that interest me.

Books 176

Books Review Leadership Crisis 176

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? Cathy Benko, a vice chairman at Deloitte, has been studying the various ways companies are working to prevent a skills crisis while transforming for the digital world. An edited version of our conversation follows. Which is proving more popular at the moment?

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

That is, until a crisis forced them to wake up. The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally. Some estimate the market for market research alone at $20 billion annually.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. 85% of the time, planning and forethought will avert the crisis.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Why shop there for tools or appliances rather than at Home Depot, Harbor Freight Tools, Kam Appliances, or some other big-box, discount, or specialty store? In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis. Competition Leadership Retail'

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My father acted swiftly to replace the full leadership team, enraging my cousins and their father. My eldest uncle''s sons have also been unable to break into leadership positions. And Southeast Asia''s financial crisis was crippling Indonesia''s growth; perhaps my uncles sensed vulnerability. Our markets have taken a beating.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Family businesses rarely receive much public attention unless they are in crisis. Right now we have an honest to goodness Greek tragedy in Market Basket, a large family-owned grocery store chain being run into the ground by the feuding Demoulas (yes, Greek-American) family. And this is also true at Market Basket.

Marketing 8

Marketing Real Estate Loyalty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. Value flexibility. Take Google.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Absentee leadership. Product discounting is chronic. Marketing blames Sales. Revival is not too late, but whatever you do. remember, the steps you take must be transformational, not incremental. Sick companies are never turned around by doing more of the same, better. Lack of vision. High employee turnover. ’ 50.

Absenteeism 100

Absenteeism Short-term Long-term Strategic Planning 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9