The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

He’s like the high IQ, low EQ, dehumanizing retail/technology global VP who joined us (and met the Canadian leadership team for the first time) at a strategic planning retreat a few years ago. We could really push this further and make the same argument for “human resources.”

Human Capital 69

Human Capital Human Resources COO Engineering 69

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

For example, over the past several years, we’ve implemented paid family leave and paid parental leave, as well as extended paid sick leave to part-time retail employees so our employees never have to choose between work and taking care of their own health, a new child, or a sick parent or spouse. Tracy is responsible for LS&Co.’s

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Diversity Resources Retail 52

HR Digest

AUGUST 30, 2020

Outdoor equipment retailer, Patagonia has announced that it will shut down its headquarters, offices, stores and distribution centers for Election Day, as it had previously done in 2016 and 2018. The company also mentioned that its Starbucks app will help customers learn how to register to vote.

Company 52

Company Retail Human Resources Report 52

HR Digest

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Only 58% of Americans said they expect to celebrate Halloween this year, down from 68% last year, according to a National Retail Federation poll of more than 7,600 U.S. Hershey has this helpful website that maps out how to trick-or-treat safely in every county in the United States with guidance from the CDC on risk levels.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Workshop Retail Morale 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. More retail purchases are moving online, and a growing number of manufacturers now sell to consumers directly, cutting out retailers entirely. It’s either adapt to the new environment or step aside and make room for a competitor who can.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 29, 2012

For example, flexible scheduling, while often unheard of in retail, is standard at the stores. .” Manager Autonomy and Flexible Scheduling : Wegmans empowers its managers to work creatively and autonomously with its staff to meet their needs.

Training 264

Training Retail Resources Magazine 264

Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. We’re having a giveaway for a $75 gift certificate to any product (out of the millions of items available) from CSN Stores.

Press Release 214

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 214

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2012

Old school CEOs either don’t know how to innovate, fear innovation or simply fail to comprehend the true definition of the word. Johnson had launched Apple’s retail strategy and was the man behind the aggressive store expansion a decade ago. These innovators love playing rocket man. What repels innovation at old economy companies?

Chief Operating Officer 202

Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer CEO Innovation 202

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group. Former CEO, Carlson.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. John Durfee is a Gulf War veteran and the marketing manager for Airsplat, the nation’s largest retailer of Airsoft Guns including Spring Airsoft Rifles.

Management 150

Management Stage-Gate Ethics Marketing 150

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

Human resources management is all about striking a balance between encouragement, rewards, and sanctions. If your business operates in the retail sector, you should invest in sales technique training. Typically, the training programs focus on how to create healthy environments that encourage and stimulate children.

Training 50

Training Budgeting Bottom-up Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In industries like retail, customer service, and hospitality, entry-level turnover alone costs billions of dollars each year, based on voluntary turnover rates and annual replacement costs. The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality.

Survey 8

Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Brad's comment illustrates an important truth about succeeding to the executive level.

Innovation 16

Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 16

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Rasmus has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development & Adult Learning and degrees in Philosophy and Human Resources. She is a co-author of the book “One Second Ahead – Enhancing Performance at Work with Mindfulness” and gives regular talks on how to improve focus, clarity and results in daily work.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

You'd more likely visit the website of a retailer that caters to your specific style and budget, then search for the type of shoes you want — the style, the price range and perhaps the color or heel height. For instance, the Society for Human Resource Management has a job board, as does the American Marketing Association.

Directory 15

Directory How To Industry Media 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. But the role is becoming important in many other industries as well, such as creative arenas (for example, product design in retail) and communications.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

And many CEOs we talked to, like Owen Mahoney of Nexon, agree that the CHRO is one of the most strategic roles someone could have: “Businesses grow or die based on the quality of their people, so the human resource executive role is arguably the most strategic in the company.

Quinn 13

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

What excited Sam was McGregor's clear and compelling articulation of the personnel (today, we say "human resources") policies in which he instinctively believed. From the day he opened his first TV and appliance retail store in Richmond, Virginia, Sam understood that management means getting results through the efforts of other people.

McGregor 8

McGregor Human Resources Retail Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The obsession with predicting who may be a future star or the next top leader has influenced academic research and human resources practices alike. But how good are we at evaluating human potential? How to Manage a Toxic Employee. The answer is, it’s mixed. You and Your Team Series. Office Politics.

Politics 8

Politics Retail Career Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. It can rapidly build demand, which reinforces the relationship with retail grocers. But Frito-Lay stocks its own products.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

At one top retailer, the analytics team was looking to fill a direct marketing measurement position but was not satisfied with the direct marketing experience in the CVs the recruiting team was sharing with them. But there are a range of tactics companies of any size can use to improve their analyst recruiting.

Direct Marketing 11

Direct Marketing Talent Management Marketing Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

It doesn’t matter if the idea for how to solve a problem or the insight to craft a new strategy is generated in the middle of the night, or while showering, or in yoga class. Factory workers, manual laborers, and workers in retail stores, restaurants, or hospitals have to be at their place of work at specific times to be productive.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Constraint McKinsey Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors. At one 170,000-employee big box retailer, linking the feedback systems would require approvals from three different senior executives, the CMO, the chief human resources officer, and the president of retail. You and Your Team Series.

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Closely related to Sales Linguistics is the accelerated trend of sales force language specialization based upon the following strategies: Industry verticalization focus (finance, government, retail, etc.) Your solution might be purchased by the information technology department and used by accounting and human resources.

Trends 17

Trends Analysis Politics Technology 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

For example, go beyond "meeting customer information needs with computer solutions" by noting your deep knowledge of how to do that in a specific industry, like retail, or your experience with a particular computer solution technology, like integrating iPhone functions with a company website. How do you build your target capability?

Career 15

Career Human Resources Retail Skills 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

That’s because either government regulations dictate joint ventures — for example, in the auto sector in China and multi-brand retailing in India — or because two companies believe they need each other’s complementary strengths, as in the case of AirAsia Japan. What they don’t know is how to make a joint venture work. Strategy'

Long-term 8

Long-term Airlines Guidelines Cooper 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 13, 2011

by John • June 13, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 1 Comment. Then there’s Barnes & Noble , who seem to know what they are selling but are unsure how to express their differentiation. Our mission is to operate the best specialty retail business in America, regardless of the product we sell.

Mission Statement 209

Mission Statement CEO Human Resources Brand 209

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Skunkworks often need to be protected from the business units, so that they have the freedom and resources that their ideas need to get out into the market. Invest real money.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The world’s largest online shoe retailer went from 8 million $ to 1 billion $ annual revenue in 7 years. And also The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle, How to Become a Servant Leader. If you got that skill – and there’s a lot of organizations willing to pay really big bucks for people who know how to do that.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The world’s largest online shoe retailer went from 8 million $ to 1 billion $ annual revenue in 7 years. And also The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle, How to Become a Servant Leader. If you got that skill – and there’s a lot of organizations willing to pay really big bucks for people who know how to do that.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. That is, the imbalance of humanism and instrumentality in designing and using technology.

Technology 8

Technology Drucker Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. These are "people skills.".

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR. If you want to conduct an employee survey, ask business stakeholders about its relevance and how to do it. But it must be HR that decides how things are done, based on the professional knowledge and insights only HR people will have.

CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. Strategic alignment is the responsibility of an organization’s top executives versus those in charge of marketing, manufacturing, human resources, or other functions.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

A workforce of 8,000 led by a transformational CEO, seemingly knows how to deal with the ever-changing digital world. If that whets your appetite for more, you can pick up a hard copy or kindle version all online book retailers. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. But Intuit isn’t a small business.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100