Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Your organization is going to face a crisis. We explored those questions while researching for our recent book, Navigating an Organizational Crisis : When Leadership Matters Most , (available on Amazon) and came away with some insight about how leaders might ready themselves. This is not a question of IF but WHEN. About the Authors.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Kristen Ludgate, who leads 3M’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the “15% culture” philosophy that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. How is 3M responding to the COVID-19 crisis? Kristen Ludgate.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

We asked, “Are we operating in a way that serves our people and our business?” We asked, “Does the name Human Resources reflect what we do and who we serve?”. Amid this coronavirus crisis, what should be the priorities of HR leaders? As I talk to my peers, across the industry, we are all working hard to support our teams.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link]. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis. Strategic Plans have to start with deep strategic thought and the right conviction.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2012

These are the businesses whose products and services are having an impact across their industries and our culture. Ninety percent of these organizations have yet to experience a mid-life crisis; they are still under the age of 40. Those walking the talk are on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

As one of the world’s largest employers with workforce all across the globe, what’s Inspire Brands’ best practices during crisis to ensure productivity and transparency? Our recognition culture is a fundamental part of the way we operate and something that truly differentiates Inspire as a company. .

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It’s prompted economists to predict a recession that is twice as deep as that experienced after the 2008 financial crisis. They then attempted to control for various factors that might influence workplace performance, such as the region the firm was based in, the size of the workforce, and the industry the company operated in.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The right culture lays the foundation for any organization’s success, regardless of the industry, company size, or the phase of business growth. Boards see the negative impact of a culture crisis on the value of their companies. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 26, 2011

Courage is the greatest character element any leader must possess—as it is the catalytic agent that mobilizes every other virtue in the face of crisis. Modest leaders see fiscal and operational constraints as safeguards—not hindrances. These people were never truly courageous—only brave at a point in time.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The word crisis suggests something that happens infrequently. When it comes to a crisis happening, the question seems to no longer be “if” but “when.” Here’s what we learned: You can’t pick your crisis. When the crisis does hit, the first hours are essential. You have to be ready.”

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

She faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. This is the bestselling bible of the coaching industry, which popularised the most influential model of coaching: the GROW model. By Daniel H.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Thinking that quality needs apply to some other department, company or industry, not your own. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. This is not something that can be conducted alone by internal human resources departments.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Asian countries, including China, are facing an aging crisis that could seriously dampen future economic growth. Moreover, face-conscious Asian companies, especially in the service industry, want to present a corporate persona that is dynamic, vibrant, and global — in other words, young. Use global companies as change agents.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. As I speak with industry executives, a common refrain is “I’ve done all the easy stuff.” Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Most of the regulation was meant to safeguard the financial system, and the taxpayers who had to bail it out, from another crisis. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Listen here to learn more about what Shootman calls the “digital work crisis.” Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. And that’s really the source of this digital work crisis. And this is the digital work crisis. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. We have a crisis in health care delivery, and if we can fix that problem we’ll have more than enough resources to cover all the uninsured and underinsured. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images. America spends $3.3

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My company, CareerBuilder (which operates the U.S.'s Talent in certain industries is not evenly distributed geographically, so employers must access data that allows them to target candidates wherever they are located. It's notable that in the wake of the mortgage crisis, the American workforce isn't as mobile.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

But in our industry, it's very hard to argue that gender diversity is anything less than key. How strange, then, that in the industry as a whole there has been little focus on gender within lending institutions. Not everyone agrees that the presence of women at the top should be so imperative.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. What the competition is doing.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Human resources development. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. Operations continue to streamline and are professional and productive.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Human resources development.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Human resources development. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. How to Find Goals: Examine problems. Portfolio analysis. Cost containment.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Too much efficiency can be just as deadly as too little, if it leaves an organization unable to cope with change — either because it's too fragile to survive a crisis or too rigid to adapt to industry changes. In combat, the fact that someone is actively trying to disrupt your operation changes the calculation.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

This company operates its democracy to the extent that: Employees set their own work schedules They don’t use the same workstation more than two days in a row so that no one really knows when they go to work or how long they stay. But what does a truly democratic workplace look like?

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