Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2015

Is there leading by example? A group that lacks trust for their leader will experience high attrition, increased tension, low productivity and low morale. He is the vice president of global human resources operations for Amgen Biotechnical Corporation, the world’s largest biotechnical company. Is it inclusive?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

We can look at the way our own companies operate and make inferences about how our products are perceived. Call this “alignment-attrition” – as the time window between our interactions increases, our alignment decreases. This dynamic operates differently in different kinds of organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Take for example a UK food delivery service that I’ve studied. For example, one driver suggested new products like Gogurts and fun string cheese that parents could get delivered early and pop into their kids’ lunches before school. For example, one of the Shanghai branches was inside of a shopping mall.

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Servant Leader Leadership Banking Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

In our experience, the key to success in empowering frontline employees lies in giving them a framework within which to operate — and feedback about how they are performing within that framework. Take TD Bank, for example. One example is TD Bank's "1 to say Yes, 2 to say No" rule.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Exit interviews were usually handled by junior managers on the HR team, but Amrita felt that given the high rate of attrition among doctors at Krisna over the past year, it was her responsibility as head of HR to talk to Dr. Vishnu Patel, a respected cardiologist who’d just given his notice. Good or Bad Attrition?

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Case Study Attrition Mission Statement CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

In our experience, the key to success in empowering frontline employees lies in giving them a framework within which to operate — and feedback about how they are performing within that framework. Take TD Bank, for example. One example is TD Bank's "1 to say Yes, 2 to say No" rule.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty Banking Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Take, for example, a large media company we work with that invested in an internal social-networking platform for the commercial organization. Record growth and profitability, increased rep engagement, and near-zero attrition. The goal was to help sales reps exchange information about complex accounts. The results?

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Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

As a result, the company increased its new customer acquisition threefold over the prior year and reduced its customer attrition by a healthy margin. For example, an IT services company uses DiscoverOrg to mine organizational data that might indicate intent to purchase, such as job postings for a vice president of network.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2017

As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks. Female promotion rates have increased nationwide across all cohorts, with a 22-percentage-point rise among senior managers, while the attrition of senior women has slowed by five percentage points.

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Diversity Consultative Attrition Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

For example, one sales office had the lowest score in the engagement survey for all of North America. The work improvements increased productivity substantially as measured by increases in operating income. Unfortunately, the reverse correlation is just as strong.).

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HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

Understanding HR Analytics The Evolution of HR Management Over the past century, HR management has undergone a remarkable transformation, evolving from an operational discipline to a strategic function. Optimized HR Operations: HR analytics streamlines HR processes by automating data collection, analysis, and reporting.

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Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

We also have examples of companies thriving in Arizona and Chennai … and many other places. Greg Gianforte, the founder of RightNow, told me years ago that one of the best decisions he made was to build his engineering operation in Montana. Attrition is non-existent. –meets with a satisfactory answer. Costs are low.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. Before we redid the course, SEAL sniper school had an average attrition rate of about 30 percent. Lead by Example. That scares me.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. While you can start an offshore location with non-critical responsibilities, unless responsibilities move upstream, you risk attrition. In fact, costs go up initially.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. One client of Change Logic’s has built a dashboard for identifying recruitment and attrition in must-win talent populations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

It was able to redeploy people to other areas where they were needed and then realize the productivity gains by reducing overtime, and allowing natural attrition to gradually reduce headcount. In this case, because the productivity improvements helped Wiremold to grow, management didn't have to lay people off when work was streamlined.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

In a customer service center, for example, you would create scripts for every possible interaction. Bush took over American Express’s far-flung service operations in 2005. Employee attrition was cut in half. Jim Bush had a different idea, which I have now come to call “Leading by Letting Go.” The company began to win the J.D.

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Call Center Attrition Learning-by-Doing Cost Center 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

For example, Blackboard used animated visuals (a few of which are pictured below) to help rally people around an alternative vision of the future without worrying about requirements or legacy product issues. This is a product ethos built around emotional impact and attachment. Describe an incremental path towards success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2018

So in addition to overseeing our portion of the operation, I became a conduit, doing my best to build relationships between my staff and the folks at headquarters. This can contribute to attrition. And it’s important to help your employees grow their EQ — through scheduled self-reflection , for example.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

It was able to redeploy people to other areas where they were needed and then realize the productivity gains by reducing overtime, and allowing natural attrition to gradually reduce headcount. In this case, because the productivity improvements helped Wiremold to grow, management didn't have to lay people off when work was streamlined.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In most larger companies, you'll need to generate roughly 200+ responses per operating unit per period. For instance, you can calculate the value of turning a detractor into a promoter, or use differences in attrition rates to assess the expected lifetime values of different customer groups.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

So we propose a three-step solution to properly value the office tending work that lubricates its operations: identify it; understand its impact; and find ways to assign it value. million in decreased attrition, absenteeism, and overtime, it also drove a $2 million profit increase and 34% jump in highly satisfied customers.

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Bottom-up Attrition Absenteeism Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Administrative and operational inefficiencies account for nearly one third of the U.S. Labor is the industry’s single largest operating expense, with six out of every 10 people who work in health care never interacting with patients. health care system’s $3 trillion in annual costs.

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Health Care Insurance Efficiency Document 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. SAP, for example, has data on a variety of transactional domains, from customer orders to vacation balances.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard. For example, Philips sells high-tech medical devices. It now has around 10,000 operating projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Instead of promoting, for example, Hershey’s Syrup, chocolate bars, and Hershey’s kisses separately, the company is running an advertising campaign that unites all Hershey branded treats in a single commercial, emphasizing the corporate brand name over individual product lines. Increased flexibility.

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Advertising Brand Company Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It is a deceptively simple example of what the Harvard-trained economist Mancur Olson popularized as the collective-action problem. And a Chinese agreement to cut back on subsidies improves conditions facing steel and aluminum companies also operating in Europe and Japan, not just in the American Midwest.

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