In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

Thirty-five years ago at a ceremony in Vancouver, BC, I accepted AMA’s Marketer-of-the-Year Award on behalf of Nabob Foods. This company earned that honor by re-staging a tired coffee brand with innovative packing technology and breakthrough advertising. As marketers well know, unfilled needs create opportunities to meet the need.

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Brand Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy CEO 100

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   Tom Foster, Management Skills Blog : Nuclear Winter - Does the uncertainty of the current economic climate still have you hunkered down, playing it safe, and hoping for the return of more prosperous days? License. . 

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Welch 133

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

In an interview with The HR Digest, Michael Fraccaro, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.”

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 28, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   Financial markets seem to be in perpetual chaos, our environment is in peril due to natural and man made disasters, and feelings of uncertainty abound in our everyday lives.  License. .    Fear.less can help. 

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In this time of economic uncertainty, the pressure to control costs is at a peak. With hiring freezes and layoffs, companies increasingly are asking themselves how to produce the results they need with limited or decreasing human resources.

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Flextime ROI Advice Human Capital 115

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. Amazon has its below-the-radar " Mechanical Turk " workplace market.

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Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. To find out, I like to ask questions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

In light of today's economic volatility and uncertainty every aspect of business is being re-examined for its value in creating and sustaining profitable growth. I've worked in human resources for over 25 years, the past six with Newell Rubbermaid, and this is not a new endeavor for me.

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Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Second, young businesses tend to grow faster than older ones, but also fail at greater rates. Challenge risk financing conventions. In the U.S.,

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. Fortitude – tolerance for stress, uncertainty, or chaos. Openness – willingness to explore and to change. Nash Equilibrium, Pareto Principle).

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

But a big and growing challenge is emerging: Once your tech teams have begun to master these new ways of working — improving time to market, continuous learning, responsiveness, and collaboration — they often find that the pace of work they desire is substantially hindered by the lack of agility in HR. Related Video.

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Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

Businesses of all sizes are besieged with opportunities, competing information sources and large amounts of uncertainty. It may be: human resources, organizational development, training, technology, sales, marketing, advertising, public relations, coaching or financial management. You provide a good place to work.

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Strategic Planning Advertising Consultative Planning 77

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In each country, following recent elections and referendums, they are facing political, social, and economic uncertainties we would never have imagined just a year ago. The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies.

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Management Uncertainty Crisis Short-term 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

After a year of uncertainty and tumult, Congress finally got around to making some crucial decisions in the last month of 2010. The Bush tax cuts, set to expire after December 31, 2010, had lowered most income tax brackets, capital gains and dividend tax rates over the past decade.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There are many explanations for growing inequality and stagnant wages, but studies have found that so-called “skills premiums” — higher wages for more-skilled workers — have been a significant factor in growing income inequality, and technology is the reason why that premium has risen.

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Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

After all, the job description involves poring through huge quantities of often disparate data to find insights that may prove helpful in every aspect of a business, including marketing, logistics, and human resources. It also includes cleaning data, dealing with gaps, and sifting through incomplete poor definitions.

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Osborne Politics Information Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. All-inclusive global talent market. Exponential technology change. Work resembles today, with similar technological connections and work arrangements, relying heavily on regular full-time employment.

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Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

Consider the Miami condo market, which has rebounded quite nicely since 2008 on the back of strong demand from Latin American buyers. Academics and serious economists were dogmatically dedicated to the efficient market hypothesis — contributing to the inflation of an unprecedented credit bubble between 2001 and 2007. Why's that?

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Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20