Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. For example, they many fail to detect or assess profound changes in operating landscapes, like Bear Stearns or Blockbuster did. It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

As economic uncertainty swirls, employers have a critical role to play in easing the anxieties of their older employees and ensuring their financial security. This commitment not only benefits employees but also fosters a culture of trust and loyalty, ultimately contributing to a more stable and successful organization. “As

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 16, 2019

Honest leaders are much more able to build loyalty and trust. In a business where collaboration is poor and teams operate in silos, it is impossible to build trust. They don’t balk at uncertainty or bad ideas. Collaboration, when facilitated correctly in business, creates a culture of honesty, openness and trust. Trustworthy.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You have tremendous loyalty to your friend. And, you operate in a fishbowl. Leadership involves uncertainty. Here’s an example. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. As your company matures that person might not have the needed skill set to take the company to the next level. You don’t want to hurt them. You are always in the mix.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

There is a lot of anxiety and uncertainty in many organizations today. These actions, coupled with incentives that elicit new ideas for improving operations can send important positive messages at a time of stress. loyalty, high productivity, and referrals of others as potential employees. They can foster "ownership" behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Traditional onsite benefits, such as cafeterias, childcare, massages, and volunteer opportunities ranked a mere 5 percent when determining what benefits provide stability during economic uncertainty. They recognize that culture is critical to talent retention. They know their audience.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. The CEO acknowledged that Greg’s changes had improved performance, but he hadn’t won people’s loyalty and his style was mismatched with the company’s culture.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. But Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is using the Internet of Things to resolve the uncertainty. It brings certainty to a situation where uncertainty can drive tension into the driver/manufacturer relationship. This kind of service is more than just convenience.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. But Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is using the Internet of Things to resolve the uncertainty. It brings certainty to a situation where uncertainty can drive tension into the driver/manufacturer relationship. This kind of service is more than just convenience.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2014

But a leader should also strive to win the loyalty and commitment of those who know that they are likely to lose their jobs. There were major overlaps in corporate and operational management positions, but most employees would be retained. He acknowledged the tough choices and the real stress of uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The service companies that thrived coming out of the Great Depression — think Macy's and Disney — figured out how to take care of their customers in a climate of fear and uncertainty. One way Zappos funds its legendary service is by relying on a very lean operation. What would your customers be willing to give up?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

It’s easy to understand why loyalty is another important trait for CEOs. Insiders tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty. ” Second, CEOs operating in uncertain environments need to have a lot of “what if” discussions with their executives. This matters for two reasons. Insiders are good-humored.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Today, as chairman of APCO Worldwide’s China operations , I have a deep view into the China operations of dozens of multinationals, and through that I can see that management in China is going through yet another phase. Determining who runs your China operations is the most important decision a CEO can make.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All the originally appealing simplicity vanished into uncertainty. Traditional operations research process optimization, for example, seldom embraces A/B testing or incorporates customer recommendation engines. Would they defect to competitors? Might product bundles or incentives meaningfully shift demand and production flows?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

After conversations with a range of executives within her operating group, Lynn devised a plan to create customer-focused teams designed to meet the needs of a handful of key retail buyers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Another is that that it might be difficult to actually deliver on the promise, given that the culture, assets, and skills of the operation were not designed to support the parity initiative. Complexities, interactions, and future uncertainties make them tough questions to answer but a loss of relevance is tougher still.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Periods of change on a grand scale – crises, mergers and acquisitions, mass layoffs – can especially erode employee engagement, loyalty, and trust. Similar employee crowdsourcing efforts have been used to redefine company values (at IBM) and generate ideas for cutting operational costs (at BASF).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Or they rely on subjective metrics, such as likability, loyalty, whether someone is “due for promotion,” etc. Too often, companies demand a laundry list of vague qualities, such as creativity and innovation, which fail to align with organizational needs. For example, when a U.S. For example, when a U.S.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Fortitude – tolerance for stress, uncertainty, or chaos. Integrity – ability to inspire/engender trust and loyalty. 5) Operational Transparency -. Openness – willingness to explore and to change. Emotional availability – capacity to share and express. Transparency is organizational honesty.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Oleg is a thought leader, author, business educator and consultant with over 25 years of experience operating businesses and consulting Fortune 500. They will pay threefold back with respect, support, and loyalty. For the persistent, upcoming uncertainties only inspire active thinking to find new methods and approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. But this is not cause for alarm.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Uncertainty about your standing in the organization is another reason to be afraid, she adds. “Work is often an antidote, a space where you can forget about what’s happening and operate as a functioning adult rather than feeling helpless in the face of these events.” She was still expected to work hard.

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Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2015

Move toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust. What matters is how you operate. If the other four had improved their relations by as much they collectively would have added $2 billion in 2014 operating profit, Henke said. Instead, minimize total cost. Point 4 in W.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. Bell, Customer Loyalty Consultant and author at [link]. Being okay with ambiguity, disruption, chaos, and uncertainty. What is that!?” I could breathe.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

The impact of her lack of leadership and management skills resulted in a tremendous amount of mistrust, uncertainty and poor moral. Patronizing, belittling or sarcastic leaders forgo trust and loyalty to prop-up their ego – big mistake. A poor manager or supervisor is more than just an organizational problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Insist upon a culture that allows people to constantly challenge the most fundamental beliefs, hypotheses, and assumptions that they have about your organization, the industry in which it does business, and the world in which it operates. The established “rules” under which you or your organization generally operates?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag alone; instead, try a long-term relationship based on established loyalty and trust. And with this change comes a world of uncertainty and anxiety where predictable performance for any business seems more and more like Deming’s red bead experiment: random.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Cultivate long-term loyalty among a specific subset of customers? Uncertainty is far more palatable — and far less problematic — when you know precisely where it exists than when it pervades your entire operation. This begins with methodically zeroing in on the challenge(s) you’re trying to solve.

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