Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Welcome to the April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! Data is important, don’t get me wrong, but it is only one side of the coin driving innovation and operational success. The post April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival appeared first on Lead Change. Communication. On the other side of the coin is intuition.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Ethics 267

Leading Blog

MAY 13, 2021

It’s a quality greatly valued by companies because they must operate in an increasingly complex and diverse global economy.”. Tapping skills honed as time-starved parents, they set priorities well, multitasked, and delegated effectively. They also managed with empathy. Source: Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life.

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Delegation Diversity Survey Globalization 284

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As businesses plan for 2021, it’s a perfect time to practice 2020 Hindsight – reviewing observations from this year for insights and learnings to leverage in the coming 12 months. How do these observations inform your 2021 business plan? Identify what has become clear about your business and the way you operate this year.

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Agility Planning Operations Business Model 250

HR Digest

MARCH 17, 2025

Under CEO Andy Jassy, who took the reins from Jeff Bezos in 2021, the e-tailer has shifted towards a leaner, more efficient approach. million by the end of 2021. In October 2024s earning call , he doubled down on streamlining operations. This started with a massive wave of layoffs at Amazon in 2022 and 2025.

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Bureaucracy Management Efficiency Cost 135

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The BDO’s latest survey amplifies this concern further, where nearly half of the private equity fund managers and operating partners reported being understaffed across their organizations.

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Chief Financial Officer Management Survey Talent Management 417

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Many corporate HR teams are operating in a legacy model, bogged down with hiring downstream talent and struggling to quickly and efficiently source top-shelf talent. Of all the executive placements our firm completed in 2021, only 54% of companies required relocation, down from 77% in 2019.

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Execution Strategy Quality Insurance 370

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2021

For many, 2021 is when financial intelligence and careful management are critical with many companies struggling due to COVID-19. Keep reading for a few tips that will hopefully help to improve your company’s financial health in 2021. Go Through Regular Expenses. Embrace Remote Work.

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Tips Outsourcing Finance Long-term 131

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

Certainly, 2020 and into 2021 have been marked by tremendous loss. And since none of us operate in a vacuum, it means gathering my team around me so that I can model and create a space for their loss. First, for many of us, we lost parents, siblings, children, and dear friends. What we once took for granted might now be a rarity.

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Fashion Finance Mentor Operations 296

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Operations managers have a tough and challenging role, particularly in 2021. If you’re working in operations management, or you aspire to become an operations supervisor, take a look at some of the challenges you’ll be facing in 2021: 1. Building a Career in Operations Management. Supply Chain Uncertainty.

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Operations Supply Chain Management Transportation 69

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. For 2021, WE Forum lists the top 10 needed jobs: Data analysts and scientists. Quick Skilling Hits as You Plan for 2021 . The post The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021 appeared first on The HR Digest. Hard skills require frequent updates.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Excerpt from Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Employee Well-Being by Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas, McGraw Hill, November 2021). * * * Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas are coauthors of Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Employee Well-Being.

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McKinsey Project Learning-by-Doing Long-term 466

HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

The Fairfax Assembly plant, which has been producing the Chevrolet Malibu, is now halting operations to retool the next-generation Chevrolet Bolt EV. In 2021, CEO Mary Barra pledged to invest $35 billion in EVs and autonomous vehicles by 2025, a commitment reiterated in subsequent earnings calls.

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Supply Chain Mass Marketing Automotive Uncertainty 141

Next Level Blog

JANUARY 5, 2021

Most of 2021 still lies ahead and we have lots of opportunity right now to think about how we want to influence the outcomes that are yet to be created. These are the qualities that represent you when you’re operating in the sweet spot that leads to positive outcomes. The more you do that, the more supportive you’ll be.

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Quality Open-book Follow-up Positioning 246

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This is the time to practice 2020 hindsight, looking back at learnings from all the chapters in your business story this year and asking: What did we learn as an organization that can help us define expectations and activities for our team in 2021? What has become more clear about our business and the way we operate this year?

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Strategy Review Learning-by-Doing Operations 273

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It’s about cultivating a diverse pool of talent that reflects the world we operate in and the clients we serve.” In 2021, the Harvard Business Review reported that “companies with more diverse management teams have 19% higher revenue due to innovation.”

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Diversity Leadership Groupthink Execution 312

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Providing senior debt to eligible FinTech companies will enable us to respond to the fast-changing FinTech industry and to strengthen our impact across 38 countries where EBRD operates.”. According to a Crunchbase report , it acquired 29 companies over the recent years, being heavily focused on the FinTech sector.

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Execution Banking Bond Diversity 387

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Our team has poured their time and energy into the editorial and web management side of running the site, but as we come into Q4 of 2021, we’re taking a step back to reevaluate our investment in Lead Change. As a result, we’re pausing operations on the site and will not be accepting new contributor submissions. Don’t worry, though!

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Loyalty Blog Crisis Leadership Development 209

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

2021 was expected to ease things a bit, but the resurgence of variants of the virus put paid to any plans of return to normalcy. As of June 2021, according to Quantum Workplace , 30% of employees considered themselves hybrid employees and 35% of employees reported working remotely. Operations Before Experiences.

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Efficiency Operations Training Diversity 105

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Musk remarked on Saturday Night Live in May of 2021, “To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle,” he repeatedly declared. Did you think I was also going to be a chill normal dude?”

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CFO Learning-by-Doing Engineering Sharpe 434

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2021

As there is no other way to operate for your business, you know that you don’t have any worries of competitors doing things differently. Right now there is no choice but to work from home, but this could be a big money saver right now while you have no choice.

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Outsourcing Advertising Media Franchising 127

CEO Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed how companies around the globe operate their businesses. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. As a result, many large and small organizations are working to find a balance somewhere between in-office and at-home models, known as hybrid models. All rights reserved.

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Magazine How To Operations Organization 145

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

billion in a funding round conducted in 2021. Salesforce wanted to create an innovative digital HQ that had everything it needed in one place, by “creating the business operating system for the new world of work.” Salesforce Ventures had been an investor in the company back then, clearly showing its interest in the company’s business.

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Company Committee Follow-up Strategy 98

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

Realizing that business operations security is a business issue and not just an IT “thing” has become the new cybersecurity paradigm. This new operating paradigm requires business executives to seriously think about how they’re going to secure the entire enterprise. People Component of Cybersecurity Investing.

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Wireless Human Capital Technology Budgeting 186

Engaging Leader

AUGUST 21, 2020

With the virus still plaguing us, there are no standard operating procedures for our everyday lives…at home or at work. However, the benefits open enrollment for 2021 must go on! What’s worked in the past will need to be tweaked, if not completely revamped. Meet employees where they are by using a multi-channel approach. […].

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Tactics Operations Blog 130

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Many corporate HR teams are operating in a legacy model, bogged down with hiring downstream talent and struggling to quickly and efficiently source top-shelf talent. Of all the executive placements our firm completed in 2021, only 54% of companies required relocation, down from 77% in 2019.

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Execution Strategy Trends Quality 195

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

It has forced many employers to reconceptualize workflows and the minimum number of staff needed to operate. Here are some trends that ServiceNow HR expects to have a huge impact in 2021. But as we move forward in 2021, time is going to be the focus or flexibility. Working Hours Flexibility.

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Trends Efficiency Technology Morale 94

CEO Insider

AUGUST 21, 2022

These three strategies can help keep your operations on time and budget. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. Avoiding the snowball effect that comes with logjams means creating more efficient workflows that keep the organization moving in the right direction. In any corporate workplace, efficiency is the key […].

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Efficiency Organization Magazine How To 131

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To help taxpayers and businesses during the pandemic, the government passed several laws to minimize their payables for the 2020 and 2021 fiscal years. Businesses, too, have been suffering the most since many of them have to seize operations during the start of the pandemic. They need to be circumspect of the way they earn and spend.

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Software Comparison Audience Strategy 85

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Mergers and acquisitions, or M&A as the process is more commonly known in the business world, reached an all-time high in 2021 as companies struggled to find their footing following shutdowns and a “new normal” brought about by the pandemic.

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How To Tactics Uncertainty Resistance 164

CEO Insider

AUGUST 31, 2022

Operational efficiency leads to improved customer experiences, the erosion of employee stress, and most importantly, enhanced revenue potential. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. A well-run business is prepared for growth. However, many leaders struggle to reach this target. All rights reserved.

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Efficiency Magazine How To Stress 128

CEO Insider

JANUARY 21, 2022

As a General Motors Supply Chain leader for over 25 years and now a small business owner, my experience has proven that successful operating fundamentals are the same, no matter the size of the company. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Magazine Operations Process 126

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

With unemployment rates so high, they know that food insecurity will last well into 2021 or until unemployment levels get back to around four percent. They immediately cited the challenge of feeding as many people as they are for the foreseeable future and the operational costs and food supply issues that come with that.

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Banking Rogers Leadership Tourism 246

CEO Insider

OCTOBER 7, 2021

After all, your employees touch every aspect of your business; from day-to-day operations, engaging with customers, utilising technology, creating your processes and policies, to making decisions and taking action (or inaction) that affects your business daily. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. Harnessing […].

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Risk Management Magazine Management How To 126

CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The days when their role was to a large extent operational, focused almost exclusively on delivering financial results, are well and truly over. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. Expectations of business leaders are changing at lightning (maybe even frightening) speed. And they will be judged on that […].

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Politics CEO Magazine Leadership 124

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Nearly one year later, the pandemic shows no signs of ending, and business owners and consumers alike are wondering what to expect in 2021 and beyond. As more businesses move to virtual formats, the need for financial technology will continue to increase in 2021. Now, experts believe one will be widely available by mid-2021.

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Retail Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals Technology 77

CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

How we operate and must lead today, is like nothing we’ve experienced before. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. These are unprecedented times. Changes in working conditions, legislations and “flexible working” are on an entirely new level. All rights reserved.

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Magazine Operations Planning Company 124

CEO Insider

AUGUST 21, 2022

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the commitment of businesses to contribute positively to society through their operations, products, and services. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. It can also be understood as the broader concept of corporate philanthropy. All rights reserved.

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Marketing Magazine Commitment Operations 122