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Avoid an HR Headache with these 25 Tips

ExactHire - Leadership

The expectations business leaders place upon their human resource departments are increasing. Of course, human resource professionals came into their roles with a higher calling: cultivating the company’s human capital, its employees. The times have caught up with the nobler side of human resources.

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Turnarounds and the Big Play | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Believe me, there’s nothing that can match the turnaround experience in teaching or seasoning a young manager. The means to that end is quickly slashing sku’s and product lines to reduce inventories. Familiar examples are spending more on advertising, introducing new products or line extensions, expanding distribution.

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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

My fascination isn’t my productivity; rather, it is the source of the idea. Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link]. Frankly, I wasn’t sure whether I could maintain the pace of one blog per week.

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5 Critical Factors For Building The Right Team

Tanveer Naseer

The more common case, however, is that someone (the coach, general manager, or owner) plays a strong role in consciously and consistently putting together the right players, coaches, and front office that form a cohesive, effective unit. That is why most great leaders spend the majority of their time on the art of people management.

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Social Media Is Too Important to Be Left to the Marketing Department

Harvard Business Review

But marketing managers simply are not trained to deal with questions or complaints about service, product performance, or other nonmarketing requests. Clearly define roles and responsibilities among marketing, customer service, public relations, sales, corporate communication, human resources, etc.

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How an American Express Executive Drives Growth

Harvard Business Review

Schulman: The global head of human resources at American Express was on the board at Virgin Mobile, where I was CEO. Specifically, he saw that the advent of digital technologies was going to fundamentally alter the way people conduct commerce, pay for things, and manage and move their money. So it is expanding our franchise.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

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