Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 4, 2011

I wanted my money back – I had the receipt, I had the merchandise in perfect condition, and virtually everything in the store was on sale at that time. recent posts 3 Tips To Take More Powerful Notes During Meetings. So what the store was really saying to me was, “NO! Bad Customer! You must play by our rules! Smile or Die!

Licensing 333

Licensing Price Merchandising Ethics 333

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

This human powered b t filter was a handy and powerful tool. Add to this volatile mixture the powerful accelerant of emerging digital technology and all hell breaks loose. Economically I probably helped shift some merchandise. Power down. That was always a good feeling. Inexpensive, and practically foolproof.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Roundtable Talk

JULY 30, 2010

Leadership and Sustainability: voice your opinion → Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. Under this direction, Zappos.com has grown from nothing to over $1 billion in grow merchandise. And, really, isn’t inspiring others one of the greatest opportunities that the choice of leadership presents?

Golden Handcuff 38

Golden Handcuff CEO Career Merchandising 38

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail. Breakthrough innovations in high tech certainly have a powerful impact on performance, but they are quite rare. Google powered through to an unchallengeable lead.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Private label (retail-branded merchandise) has been growing for years – since Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer invented it over 100 years ago – increasing in quality and forcing down brand premiums. German consumers, in contrast, get convenience and quality merchandise at lower prices so they can afford the Porsche!

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Under Johnson''s leadership, Penney''s share price plunged by half and the company lost $4 billion in sales. Pundits have ascribed Johnson''s debacle to hubris, incoherent pricing, drive-by leadership, overpromising, reckless haste, inept deal-making (ask Terry Lundgren ), and failing to listen to customers. It''s true.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail Gordon Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

You can imagine the closed-door debates between a cavalier merchandiser and a wary data analyst played out at a retailer: "I know it's a big inventory order, Charlie, but don't worry. It takes leadership to establish decision management and closed-loop measurement practices. We can cover it.". Go ahead and do your analysis.

Merchandising 10

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

In the 1990s and 2000s, leadership’s focus on efficiency produced solid results. We complemented these survey findings with the results of two dozen in-depth organizational audits to identify the steps companies can take to unleash the productive power of their teams and accelerate profitable growth.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Productivity Products Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

She, like a number of executives within the company, knew that a few major customers were becoming more powerful and demanding as their annual purchases from the company grew. However, senior-level decision makers want to make sure that you have the leadership "gear" to introduce change when circumstances call for it.

Innovation 15

Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that people are helpless victims of powerful forces beyond their control. For example, take these recent dire predictions: Machines will steal all the jobs. Youth violence will grow.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. Among the others was merchandising experience, which the heir apparent, like his mentor, had in spades.

CEO 15

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. The combination of predictive analytics, large data sets, and the processing power of today’s computers is starting to transform change management. It’s time for that to change.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. Ahmed accused Damon of throwing up roadblocks and using his power to undermine the sales department.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Since then the world has fallen in love with a far edgier Target, which has expanded its offerings through collaborations with such power brands as Lilly Pulitzer, Toms, Neiman Marcus, and SoulCycle, and updated product lines that break the status quo, like its latest gender-neutral kids home brand Pillowfort.

Diversity 8

Diversity Retail Discount Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

These people don''t seek power over others and they''re not motivated by the prospect of achieving great wealth. Al Gore created the Climate Reality Project Leadership Corps to bring his ideas about environmental sustainability to people around the world. Career planning Entrepreneurship Leadership'

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Career Merchandising COO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have. At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The company is doing pretty well: it has over 800,000 active sellers and a 15 million-person marketplace across 150 countries, and last year its gross merchandise sales reached $525 million. For Etsy's leadership, this was an opportunity to engage their entire team by giving them ownership of how to make Etsy better.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Brainstorming Commitment Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that people are helpless victims of powerful forces beyond their control. For example, take these recent dire predictions: Machines will steal all the jobs. Youth violence will grow.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. Among the others was merchandising experience, which the heir apparent, like his mentor, had in spades.

CEO 8

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

To understand the power of shared purpose, it's useful to look at the mission statements of leading companies. Dunkin Donuts :> Make and serve the freshest, most delicious coffee and donuts quickly and courteously in modern, well-merchandised stores. They want it to be their purpose too. They want to be right there with you.

Mission Statement 9

Mission Statement Sports Merchandising Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our work covers each brand’s visual identity, from the product itself all the way to the marketing and merchandising activities that bring a brand to life across different platforms—music, sports, fashion, and so forth. That’s the power of design and prototyping. These are not mistakes.

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Employee theft and shoplifting accounting for 15% of the retail cost of merchandise. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. 35% of employees steal from the company. 56% of employees lie to supervisors.

Budgeting 83

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 83

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

’ What they’re really selling: Electric power plants. ’ What they’re really selling: Retail merchandise. Perspective is everything…continually changing, reflective and powerful for our future. Investor Owned Light and Power Companies. ‘A Better Life for the People of _.’

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

.” Similarly, while some managers expressed anxiety about having to post schedules two weeks in advance, 90% managed to do so (excluding three outliers where constant changes in store leadership subverted stores’ ability to comply with company policies).

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth. As the industry moved toward an emphasis on customer service and merchandising, the company fell behind, because its employees were focused more on increasing inventory turns and sales per square foot.

Brand 8

Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8