Decker Communication

APRIL 5, 2023

News of layoffs at the world’s premier companies dominate the headlines, their impact exacerbated by geopolitical and financial markets turmoil. And you can’t have an innovative, engaged, confident team without fully activating workplace trust. Here are a few key things to keep in mind for your teams: Clarity is key.

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Open-book Long-term Learning-by-Doing Innovation 95

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

These progressive companies understood the importance of employee loyalty and motivation, using carrots instead of sticks. This experience fueled the fight for workplace equality and laid the groundwork for future advancements in diversity and inclusion.

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Human Resources Resources Management Mayo 116

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Here is the press release from the Hay study: The 8 th annual Hay Group study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies nurture talent and foster innovation in their ranks. At the same time, the Best Companies for Leadership foster cultures that encourage innovation.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

job market the tightest it has been in half a century, human resources managers are struggling to attract and retain top talent. But here is the challenge – how do employers create the most competitive benefits which service their true purpose – to attract, retain, reward and engage with top talent in the market?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“ESG is following something of a similar pattern to diversity, which in the beginning was largely virtue signaling to make it look like organizations really cared,” Columbia University’s Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says. ” Values-based leadership. Transform the business.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

. “AbbVie has been named to more than 40 Great Place to Work and Top Employer lists and is prominently recognized on “Best of” lists related to diversity, leadership, and engagement, as well as for corporate responsibility and business performance.” We monitor the external market carefully. We are humble.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2018

Loyalty is the key word here. By adapting your marketing strategy, you will be able to target new audiences for your products and services. Let’s look at the niche markets that you can tap into boost your business’s growth and profitability: Seniors. Here are 5 signs that you are ready to expand: 1. Bilingual Consumers.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Shifting Dynamics Make Corporate Purpose a Non-Negotiable Of all generations, Gen Z is the most racially and ethnically diverse, most well-educated, and the first generation comprised entirely of digital natives. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. For example, high purpose companies experience: 14.1%

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Of all generations, Gen Z is the most racially and ethnically diverse, most well-educated, and the first generation comprised entirely of digital natives. Neither Gen Z nor millennials have blind loyalty to brands or their employers; they grew up during The Great Recession and saw first-hand how this loyalty didn’t pay off for their parents.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Transactional leadership might be a motivator when money and better benefits are available, but today’s climate seems to lend itself more to transformational leadership where a caring leadership can stimulate innovation, creative thinking, and productivity. How to SPARK employee engagement in your organization: S et High Goals.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Public scandals like the BP oil spill and Goldman Sachs’ mortgage securities fraud compromised consumers’ trust in brands, and as a result, consumer loyalty was at an all-time low. Santander has also been innovative when it comes to social media and mobile campaigns. He is a frequent lecturer on the subject of branding.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 60

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

My goal was to meet with a globally diverse group of thought leaders and top executives to discover what is required to lead in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment. Recently, African business leaders have focused on innovation in the workplace and the imperative to nurture and grow talent on the continent.

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In my previous two posts from this series, I discussed how changing demographics, views on the nature of work and the workplace, and rapid advances in technology have converged to create intense competition for talent in today’s job market. Innovation was the focus. These blogs, tweets, posts, podcasts, ebooks, etc.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Constraint Talent Management 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

It is not Big that matters, it is Diversity that matters. But Diversity is new. They can then link this data with in-depth market research as well as social media data from Twitter or Facebook. Of course, management scholars and practitioners have long recognized the benefits of diversity. Take large retailers.

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Credit Scoring Diversity Retail Media 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. From Kodak to Blackberry to Blockbuster, business schools are spoiled for choice when it comes to examples of dominant market players that were jettisoned from the top by their complacency.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This is the equivalent to a marketing department saying, “We need to have a strong brand”—without articulating what that strength will rest on. Maybe also diversity, work-life balance, and community service. So many corporate values statements include the same words: respect, trust, fun, integrity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. Where are the markets with opportunities? With all this in place, Starbucks can move with assurance to expand.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Ed Gadsden, former chief diversity officer at Pfizer, once asked his sponsor, the legal scholar and federal judge Leon Higginbotham, why he took such an interest in him, aside from the fact they were both African American. In earlier research , the Center for Talent Innovation explored the importance of finding the right sponsor.

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How To Diversity Groupthink Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Success begets not only further success but also harder-to-meet market expectations. In terms of sales volume, product line diversity, operating system flexibility, R&D spending, and even customer loyalty , Samsung has emerged as a fierce competitor that has bested former industry champions like Nokia and Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

According to the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) , money is not the major motivator among college-educated workers. Many of these don't cost a dime but pay off in increased engagement, loyalty, and willingness to go the extra mile. Staggered hours and telecommuting are a huge hit in emerging markets , too. The good news?

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Chief Financial Officer Motivation Loyalty Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Encouraging breastfeeding has been shown to provide a strong return on investment in terms of reduced sick leave, and improved retention, productivity, and loyalty. By now we know that a more diverse workforce in medicine will help us provide better patient care and drive the most innovative research to improve human health for all.

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Policies Leadership Mentor Career 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Why do anti-profit beliefs persist in a market society? But these effects were limited.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. Empathy is the foundation of inclusive design in that when we understand human motivations on a universal scale, we design for a broader, more diverse audience.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Romney, on the other hand , believes that it's important to constantly remind Hispanics that his father was born in Mexico — thinking that this will create instant loyalty. Diversity must be approached as a best practice; not an initiative. I witnessed this first-hand as I attended three of the events.

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Policies Short-term Education Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Romney, on the other hand , believes that it's important to constantly remind Hispanics that his father was born in Mexico — thinking that this will create instant loyalty. Diversity must be approached as a best practice; not an initiative. I witnessed this first-hand as I attended three of the events.

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Policies Short-term Education Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Given the number of stakeholders and the diversity (and divergence) of their interests and points of leverage, “renegotiating” is exactly the right word. Certain changes can be forced into the system from on high, but the essential goodwill, commitment, and voter loyalty that political will is derived from cannot be commanded.

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