Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. Culture Spark. Organizational culture is often seen as an elusive topic.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

The biggest problem with business, in a one-sentence capsule, is: People exhibit misplaced priorities and impatience, seeking profit and power, possessing unrealistic views of purpose, and not fully willing to do the things necessary to sustain orderly growth and long-term success. 85% of the time, you'll prevent them from occurring.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This is the term I’ve given to a constellation of behaviors that I’ve seen occurring together often during my 24 years in management: weak performance management, a tendency to avoid conflicts with employees, and generally lackluster accountability. For example, on large projects they had persistent trouble meeting deadlines.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Human Resources Oversees Training. Accept Our Pet Project. See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. How do they meet deadlines, initiate projects and offer ideas beyond the obvious? Demand that consultants of seniority staff the project. Procedural.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

In one project , the group looked for ways to encourage hotel guests to reuse their towels, an environmentally friendly practice that could also save Disney money. When such simple randomization is not feasible due to logistics, ethics, cost, or sample size, more sophisticated analytical techniques can be employed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

At first, this may suss out obvious problems or transgressors, but over the long term you will focus too much on the “what” and not enough on the “why.” Only leaders perceived as moderate in their ethical requests were effective in promoting positive employee behavior. But it’s not a quick fix.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

This is the stair-step, paralleling The Business Tree: Resource. One is concerned with activities, procedures and project fulfillment. These are the visionaries who advise management in refining the organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics and contributions toward the company’s long-term growth.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

The biggest problem with business, in a one-sentence capsule, is: People exhibit misplaced priorities and impatience… seeking profit and power, possessing unrealistic views of purpose, and not fully willing to do the things necessary to sustain orderly growth and long-term success. by Hank Moore. What do we want to become?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Human resources management. See consulting as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. For project purchases, such as printing, graphic production, video production and materials creation, consultants customarily mark up slightly, to cover bank financing and handling costs.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Values in terms of savings: Time and motion savings. Values in terms of efficiencies: Meantime between new product introductions. Speed, accuracy and efficiency of project fulfillment. Team the project. Reasons for Goal Setting: Human beings live to attract goals. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Reasons for Goal Setting: Human beings live to attract goals. Organizations get people caught in activity traps… unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Human resources development.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Our human resources department takes care of that. We have annual sales projections. Many factors contribute toward long-term success, which is a road filled with ups and downs. Interest rates are too high. Our lawyer can take care of any problems that arise.

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