Eric Jacobson

MARCH 23, 2023

In their new book, Real-Time Leadership , leadership coaches David Noble and Carol Kauffman teach leaders how to use their unique MOVE framework to help leaders adjust their reflexive reactions and optimize their responses to any situation – including unexpected and complex leadership challenges. O : Generate Options.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is Sustainable Leadership? Sustainable Leadership is a style of management that drives solutions for environmental, social and economic challenges in the world. It recognizes leadership as a process of influence and breaks down silos to combine efforts towards change and transformation. Sources: [link].

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2021

We have already covered what soft skills are at the beginning of the article—these cover communication, empathy, and leadership traits. How your application of a tool, a supply chain glitch solution, or even getting the correct software to handle administrative tasks helped the ultimate outcomes, can be highlighted.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Our employees are experts in helping our customers create more efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains. We have a critical role to play to help our customers, our industry, and our world lessen the environmental impact of supply chains. Robinson will continue to help advance the supply chain around the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable. In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc.,

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

The skills touted as most important for advancing careers are changing: 40% of business leaders chose innovation skills as most important for succeeding at work today, behind decision-making skills (39%) and leadership skills (35%). Over two-thirds (67%) are at some stage of implementation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The basis of any successful manufacturing company is its supply chain’s effectiveness and the quality of the materials that it uses, and it is up to you as a manager to ensure that you can find and buy the right supplies for your business.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

This is the lose structural framework, but one can classify managers based on their leadership styles too. Too much hovering and guidance lead to a feeling of being overwhelmed, and people tend to give up faster under such leadership. They keep quality control over the materials supplied. Team Leaders.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

  As I was walking through this ancient city searching for dinner tonight, I started thinking about the kind of leadership that must be required to start a project you won't live to see the end of.    That doesn't mean, however, that your leadership can't build a legacy that outlives you. . 

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

That’s a crucial distinction and an important one to make clear at the outset of a project, or the laying down of a strategy or indeed job description, as most people tend to say ‘innovate’ when we actually mean ‘invent.’ How will the COVID-19 pandemic impact innovation and leadership in organizations around the world?

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Leadership needs to identify and implement solutions to address the concerns of “quiet quitters” on their teams. Rather, they are trading long hours, additional projects, and accelerated promotions for the ability to go home and focus on non-work activities. Quiet quitting is getting increased notoriety through social media today.

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QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

They have built their own standard for supply chain right from procuring raw material to delivery of these meals in schools across. On further inquiry, we found that their kitchen was ISO 22000 (Food Safety) Certified. They collect some key metrics including cost per meal and constantly look for ways to optimize it. Truly remarkable!

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

This process includes different phases to report on relevant data , share updates on projects, and open discussions where any circle member can add to the agenda. AIMMS , supply chain analytics. Leadership and team development challenges still exist. Holacracy Examples. ARCA , cash automation and recycling solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

To do so, we have created the Future Economy Project. And what type of leadership will take us there? Regardless of your views on the who, what, when, and why of climate change, the pursuit of sustainable processes up and down supply chains can translate into immediate savings — and opportunities for innovation.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets. He was an experienced forestry engineer who had managed a number of different cacao and coffee projects in the region. Our first hire in Ecuador was a great man named Fausto.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. That’s why we’re so committed to releasing all of our projects as open-source.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

After all, researchers have linked collaboration to increased innovation, and many have compellingly argued for collaboration’s role in better leadership performance. Round and round the project goes — when, where, and how somebody will decide, nobody knows. What is the project’s purpose? And then… nothing happens.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

More than half (58%) said they were expected to know details about work and projects they believed were beneath their level, and more than half also felt they were involved in decisions that those below them should be making. This suggests that the problem of too little strategic leadership may be as much a function of doing as of thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

They applied her discoveries to an Autodesk research project called Primordial, and at McManus’s urging, it was Lisa who presented the project to 400 top executives and clients. He asked her to teach him stuff, and had her give the big presentation at the end of the project.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

What Nike and Coca-Cola leadership get is that the climate issue is a systemic problem, not easily defined in one single way, and it directly and profoundly affects their business. A fleet efficiency project, which many would just call good business with a good payback, is a carbon and climate action. That’s exactly right.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. However, the firm's core offering in most other markets was supply chain advice. Unfortunately, the project wasn't able to hit the former target. Rehabilitate a misfit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

This person, let's call him Bill, had been with the company for many years, understood the engineering and supply chain issues, and was well respected by everyone. More and more however, the real contributors will be the process owners and project leaders that are able to provide horizontal leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. We believe that others can learn from Mayo’s disciplined approach for value realization projects. select a project team with the right skill sets. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc., Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. Heck, Siri actually came first.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Therefore, continuous communication, joint projects, and stakeholder engagement are what is needed to build constructive working relationships with those constituencies. Avoiding harmful practices in the supply chain and donating to good causes won’t get the message across either.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. Personal leadership is indispensable to operationalizing your purpose. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

The failure of major transformation projects to deliver the expected benefits is a well-documented phenomenon : many change programs simply do not achieve their business goals. These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. It’s time for that to change.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As a newly appointed or promoted manager, or someone spearheading a new project, you're more likely to need a plan of action within a month. He knew he needed to get up to speed fast and so we helped him craft a three-step plan: Conduct an automated, anonymous survey of both senior and line managers to identify leadership blind spots.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". Water rising — both literally and as a serious issue for business: Honda's supply chain gets slammed, Levi's gets creative. The total: 145 million euros.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent. Otherwise, issues raised will go unresolved or projects will drift back to more conventional paths. They also simplified checkouts and shelf restocking processes and equipment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

If outside help is truly needed, doesn’t that say something pretty negative about the CEO’s own staff and existing supply chain? At the mine site, project leader André Sougarret sought assistance while managing the boundaries of the rescue effort to screen out contributors who lacked expertise or workable proposals.

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