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

Chart Your Course

APRIL 6, 2015

2 on the list, is the only retailer to make the chart, along with one company each from the insurance, transportation, energy and travel industries. The post Top 25 Companies for Pay and Perks (USA Today) appeared first on Leadership Keynote Speaker and DISC Training. Costco, at No. Union Pacific.

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White Paper Company Biotechnology Case Study 100

ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 10, 2022

Your cost per hire may be more useful if you calculate it for type of positions, e.g., you expect to spend more to hire a mid-level manager than you would an entry-level employee. Hospitality and retail are notorious for their low retention rates. But the work of developing those workplace assets falls on human resources.

Process 52

Process Metrics Human Resources Software 52

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 10, 2022

Your cost per hire may be more useful if you calculate it for type of positions, e.g., you expect to spend more to hire a mid-level manager than you would an entry-level employee. Hospitality and retail are notorious for their low retention rates. But the work of developing those workplace assets falls on human resources.

Process 52

Process Metrics Human Resources Software 52

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 29, 2012

“We try to always give managers plenty of time to familiarize all staff with any changes so they aren’t taken off guard.” In its best places to work poll, Fortune magazine asked employees, “Does management have a clear vision where it is going?” ” The strategy has been effective.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 8, 2021

The following post is provided courtesy of Human Capital Concepts (HCC), a Certified Professional Employment Organization that partners with employers to manage employee-related responsibilities and risks. Most of these tasks revolve around employee management. HRO stands for “Human Resources Outsourcing.”

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. For HR professionals, using data for people analytics can help them drive better business results and improve workforce management.

Trends 116

Trends Agility Bottom-up Attrition 116

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Relationship-driven leadership consulting firm SkyeTeam, based in Broomfield, Colorado doesn’t just tell its staff that working with the firm will be fun. Online retailer Zappos, headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, has a huge reputation as a fun place to work. They mean it.

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Committee CPA COO Morale 111

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

Culture, strategy, leadership, branding, innovation, customer orientation and employee centricity must co-exist. Most leaders and managers know this. This creates frantic searches by leaders and managers for any and every opportunity that might yield a new source of revenue and profit. . or so the saying goes.

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Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

At Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh has set his cultural sights on a holacracy management system a radical change from conventional structures. Hsieh is still hell-bent on achieving a world of self-management and self-organization, but not through more cultural changes, through quicker evolution of that initial change. Is Zappos there yet?

Brand 100

Brand Core Competence Retail Advertising 100

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Already we’ve seen retail demand falling to unprecedented levels, with reduced mobility also causing demand for oil to plummet. Galunic argues that leadership in such a context has to become a lot more accessible, with employees given real-time access to their leaders. Developing the workforce.

Short-term 84

Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 84

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

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

CoachStation provides consulting and business advisory, coaching / mentoring and human resource related offerings. This meant from a young age I knew that leading, not just managing and working with people was something I would always pursue. I started building CoachStation (website, social media etc.)

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Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

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. I’m focusing on health and fitness, and to that end I’m inviting you to join me.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 214

Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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Fashion Press Release Discount PR 124

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 14, 2011

Leadership. by John • April 14, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. I’ll take an educated guess and say that P&G and Unilever top management knew absolutely nothing of the conspiracy until the regulators came knocking. Human Resources. Leadership. In the CEO Afterlife.

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Price CEO Brand Discount 100

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

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. Management power rests with focused strategies on two product categories, athletic shoes and apparel.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Based on thousands of years of practice, mindfulness techniques enable people to manage their attention, improve their awareness, and sharpen their focus and clarity. Rasmus has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development & Adult Learning and degrees in Philosophy and Human Resources. Then return to your work.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. What I did know was that I, and our leadership team, needed to solicit feedback — a lot of it.

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 31, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← The Language of Leadership in the 21st Century. From this perspective, I think it safe to say that the work of leadership includes breaking rules. As they often say in retail stores about handling merchandise, “ If you break it you own it”.

Maturity 50

Maturity Blog Merchandising McCarthy 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Few topics have captivated talent management discussions more intensely than potential. 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.

Politics 8

Politics Retail Career Report 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. To get the "people" part of process improvement right, HR needs employees who can go toe-to-toe discussing operational changes with line managers.

Process 13

Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. Beyond traditional hierarchies and contracts, networks and social and external collaborations will make leadership more horizontal, shared, and collective. How can leaders navigate this new digital work ecosystem?

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

.” Yet business leaders who took the CHRO role, including Quinn, report it is the most impactful role in their career, and many would not accept an organizational leadership position that didn’t come with the CHRO role. It was vehicle for changing the growth trajectory of the company.”

Quinn 13

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

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. Senior management doesn't really encourage innovation, you'll hear. They won't let me take risks."

Innovation 15

Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

I'll illustrate this idea with a computer solutions sales manager. They're similar to what other sales managers might say about themselves. Your target capability set can be expertise in a field (like the computer example above) or in a function (like financial analysis or human resources management).

Career 15

Career Human Resources Retail Skills 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

When we asked one successful online retailer “How do you compete with Amazon?” Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors.

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management. For knowledge workers, time is incredibly scarce.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The relentless rise of online retailers has led to deep soul searching among brick-and-mortar retailers to find ways to compete. The traditional methods of competing through convenience, assortment, and pricing are largely ineffective against online retailers who outperform brick-and-mortar retailers in these dimensions.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

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. “OK.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13