Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 14, 2015

The HR (or training) organization becomes the dumping ground for people who struggled to “carry a bag” in the sales function or meet their P & L in an executive role. You need YOUR BEST players managing your people strategy, not your leftovers. Power trips. Disconnected Metrics.

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P&L Metrics Compliance Advice 180

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Zig Ziglar is known for saying, “You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.” At every level of the organization, EI’s pivotal role is to help the leader: Manage self. At every level of the organization, EI’s pivotal role is to help the leader: Manage self. Manage others. Manage work. MANAGE SELF.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware P&L Leadership 98

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The experience gave Vanessa and me a chance to talk about and reflect on the power of encouraging, supporting, and helping others. Speed Traps: Lead Smarter, Not Faster I once sat through an author’s frantic, high-energy presentation on knowledge management. Are you managing, or managed by, e-mail ?

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Emotional Intelligence P&L Follow-up Energy 52

Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 18, 2016

What is size of P&L I should run? You need to know all the areas you will manage — so many newly minted CMO’s who hit the top rung usually are lacking in many of these areas and it shows in their performance. Management Tools & Techniques. What classes and skills are requisite? Speaking engagements?

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P&L Tools Bottom-up Skills 150

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The real power lies in service to others.” Focus on people before P&L. Well, he’s the bestselling author of The New One Minute Manager and he’s an incredible, servant leadership guru. Bachelder is a passionate restaurant industry executive serving as the CEO Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. Ken Blanchard.

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Blanchard P&L Greenleaf Leadership 100

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The real power lies in service to others.” Focus on people before P&L. Well, he’s the bestselling author of The New One Minute Manager and he’s an incredible, servant leadership guru. Bachelder is a passionate restaurant industry executive serving as the CEO Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. Ken Blanchard.

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Blanchard P&L Greenleaf Leadership 100

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

In recent years, the power of EQ, the ability to read others’ emotions (including your own), has been exalted as a key trait in successful leaders. A study of UC Berkeley PhDs discovered that EQ was 40 times more powerful in predicting who achieved success in their fields than IQ ( Developing Management Skills ).

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P&L CFO Sharpe Finance 57

Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L. Leaders who jump from highway to highway, seemingly without rationale, are leaders who lose the power of an organization primed and focused on achieving results. Harris is Associate Vice-President and Country Manager for Allergan PLC in Brazil.

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Agility P&L Intangible Assets Team 62

HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep.

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CEO Altman McCarthy Supply Chain 52

Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. Your mentor might be able to help identify and facilitate this. Create visibility and credibility for yourself in the organization. o Take on high profile projects. Identify your value proposition. What do you bring to the table? o Build and leverage these relationships.

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Press Release PR Mentor Discount 239

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

” –Franklin P. N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R. After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits. . “The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”

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P&L Construction Sharpe Learning-by-Doing 162

Coaching Ourselves

APRIL 15, 2019

Today, L&D professionals increasingly use social learning as a powerful tool for leadership and organizational development. During trade shows we promote CoachingOurselves, our management and leadership social learning program, with a pop-up banner displaying a group of participants seated around a table involved in a discussion.

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Leadership Development Development P&L Leadership 33

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The cover article in the December issue of Harvard Business Review reminded me of this powerful little story: A scout leader was trying to lift a fallen tree from the path. Equip every team with its own P&L account. The road to self-management is paved with information. His pack gathered around to watch him struggle.

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P&L Hamel Open-book Review 53

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I’m reading Patty McCord’s book Powerful , recommended through the HR Book Club (check out the book club here !). The CFO update in particular was excellent – we learned how the company measured financial success, how to read a basic P&L, and what variable costs employees could help control in their jobs.

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Tina Opie, a management professor at Babson College. Phillips, Tracy L. Dumas, and Nancy P. You are connected with people of power in the organization in a way you have never been before.

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P&L Norton Diversity Download 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. Here are five: Commit from the Top.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

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P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Cambridge Group conducted a Pricing Power Study across 124 everyday consumable categories using Nielsen data from 2008 to 2010. These lower-income shoppers think like savvy CFOs and are willing to pay more for categories that provide a usage benefit as well as a variety of economic benefits for their own "household P&L.".

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Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2017

The pros-and-cons list enjoys a long and storied history, going back at least as far as 1772, when Benjamin Franklin advised his friend and fellow scientist Joseph Priestley to “divide half a s heet of p aper by a l ine into two columns, writing over the one Pro, and over the other Con.” Emotional distance. Decision Making.

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P&L Goleman Self-aware Emotional Intelligence 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

Zappos is getting rid of traditional management structures and even job titles. Adaptation is the name of the game, says Amy Jen Su, a managing partner and co-founder of Isis Associates and coauthor of Own the Room. “Relationships matter because they help bridge the lack of process,” Willyerd says. What the Experts Say.

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Process P&L Case Study Software 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Data-driven customer insights give the CMO the power to do all that. To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 14

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 18, 2019

Ruthless prioritization serves you—the CEO, the general manager, the team owner, the person on the hook for the P&L of your business. But to do so is to miss brand’s power. That focus is the very thing that makes brand strategy powerful. The reward is pricing power, loyalty, and enduring pride among employees.

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Brand P&L Delegation Loyalty 197

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

But in fact, most managers don't. They talk the talk, but they have turned his powerful ideas into business buzzwords. Managers confuse differentiation with being different. If you have a competitive advantage, it will show up on your P&L. We think, therefore, that we "know" his work. That's more than just too bad.

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Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 16

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear. Maybe it isn’t tangible like a chair or a P&L Statement, but it is most certainly observable and most definitely impacts performance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The proliferation of customer data and the greater computing power to organize and analyze that data make it feasible to create much more dynamic and insightful profiles of customers. Several trends have converged in recent years to break through the barriers to higher response rates. Create dynamic, high-resolution customer profiles.

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Insurance P&L Telecommunications CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Impulse patronage" looks and feels like impossibility to anyone who isn''t a manager with a cash-flow-positive P&L and the courage to take a chance. Kickstarterizing the enterprise provides a powerful way of rebalancing top down innovation efforts with bottom/middle up projects that inspire cross-functional/trans-border support.

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Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As Rob Bernard, Microsoft's Chief Environmental Strategist says, "If you run one of our offices, and you choose to use carbon-based power, we'll charge you more for your energy." And this charge will, in theory, move managers to make greener choices. Sales/Becoming the Vendor of Choice. He's absolutely right.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 14

Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2017

"When they get to own a P&L or become the CEO, in many cases executives are rusty at strategy or have never even been given a set of tools to set strategy," says management consultant Tim Lewko. Decide: What are the key products, markets, and capabilities? Plan: How to implement and achieve decisions?

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Process P&L CEO Execution 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I believe it will power the future — not just in poor countries, but everywhere. Companies such as GE, Deere & Company, P&G, PepsiCo, Unilever, and Nestle already get it, and have a huge jump on their competitors, bringing their emerging market innovations "back home" to their home markets. The future is far from home.

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Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. Who has P&L authority? Second, they’re specific enough to help senior management make trade-offs. It includes accountabilities.

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Its leaders had expressed what they wanted as a list of activities that their middle managers would be asked to work on. The list gave middle managers clarity about what to do, certainly, but it told them nothing about why they were doing it, or how their myriad activities might fit together to create a cohesive program. .

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Middle Management How To Metrics Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Just in case you’ve forgotten, a manager in a matrix organization has two or more upward reporting lines to bosses who each represent a different business dimension, such as product, region, customer, capability, or function. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

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Organization P&L Report Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Don’t Get Trapped in Your P&L. That’s why good managers put so much focus on measuring and managing return on investment (ROI) as a basic operational practice. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems. Here are four things leaders can do.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

But “more boards are waking up to the power of leveraging technology as a competitive weapon,” according to Tim Theriault, former CIO of Walgreens Boots Alliance and current board member of Alliance Data, The Vitamin Shoppe, and Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield. . Update your mindset about the role of technology on the board.

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CIO Committee Technology P&L 12

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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