Strategy Driven
JANUARY 15, 2013
Every manager should seek to know the stay/leave propensity of his or her subordinates and certainly that of top performers. Recognizing these signs and factoring them into an assessment of employee loss risk is important to a manager’s ability to retain top talent. Talent Management Best Practice 1 – Ensure Employability.
Roundtable Talk
JULY 30, 2010
In Hsieh’s case, they focus on making their customers happy and not making the company profitable (the thinking being that happy customers lead to a happy bottomline)… the strategy seems to be working. From my perspective, chasing the dream not the paper is applicable whether you’re running a business or managing your career.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. When one customer is responsible for the lion’s share of your sales, it’s like golden handcuffs. The challenge is to cast off the handcuffs while keeping the gold. Innovate and invest, even when it hurts.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 11, 2015
This employee shareholding system is referred to within Huawei as the “silver handcuff.” ” It is a system that is different from the more common stock option arrangement, which is often termed the “golden handcuff.” As he puts it, he wants everyone to act like the boss.
Strategy Driven
MARCH 11, 2011
The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace.
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