Ron Edmondson

JUNE 15, 2011

Here is an interview with Mark Schoenwald: How do you keep up with current trends and the market in our industry? Also, get out of the office and get into stores and online to understand the focus of merchandising and promotions. What would you do or advice to give someone starting their career? Lastly, ask the consumer.

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CEO Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing Delegation 54

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. ’ I commissioned focus groups. To test the premise, I staged a focus group dinner meeting at a prominent inner-city church, eliciting ideas and insights.

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Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 60

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. .”

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Energy Crisis Leadership Absenteeism 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. If our equitable compensation program guide is to be trusted, you need to identify relevant external benchmarks to understand prevailing salary ranges for similar roles in the market.

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. Especially telling: 57% of the Chinese women university graduates surveyed for our book Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets rated the public sector as an attractive job option. More than 6.4 What's going on?

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Travel Survey Marketing Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Today's garota de Ipanema , however, is more likely to be carving out a career than prowling the playa. The CWLP survey found that 65% of educated Brazilian women view the public sector as very desirable to work for, head and shoulders above their counterparts in other BRIC markets. based multinational. counterparts (52%).

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Survey Education Competitive Advantage Human Capital 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

One such dad commented in a CTI focus group, "I'm the primary breadwinner, so I can't take time off now. Staggered hours and telecommuting are a huge hit in emerging markets , too. But in looking for a new job, a role with flexibility will be my top choice.".

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Chief Financial Officer Motivation Loyalty Budgeting 20

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

According to the 2014 FWI study, employers have slashed options that involve employees spending significant amounts of time away from full-time work, including sharing jobs (down from 29% to 18%), sabbaticals (from 38% to 28%), and career breaks for personal or family responsibilities (from 64% to 52%). Yet, in all cases, barely half succeed.

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Flextime Human Resources Career Talent Management 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

In other words, what employees saw on a careers site or on their company’s social channels, or what they heard from recruiters, was often inconsistent with what they experienced when they joined the company. They can benefit greatly from assessing the distance between their recruitment marketing and the actual employee experience.

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Reputation Brand Attrition How To 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

To address this challenge, J&J designed their Talent Acceleration Process (TAP) in 2012, which fast-tracks early- to mid-career individuals to senior leadership positions. Team members come from multiple geographic locations, career paths, business lines, and time zones, and the teams have to work together in a self-directed way.

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Development Participative Conference Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. How People Get Ahead. What were the critical events, and what lessons did they learn?

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

We are approaching the pursuit of work-life balance with the same obsessive (and oppressive) energy as we do our careers. I have led focus group discussions about meditation apps and created websites and content campaigns for prominent skin care lines, juice cleanse companies, and mental health apps.

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Stress Metrics Morale Goal 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. Very quickly, common concerns bubbled up.

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Except when it’s harmful to your career. ” Putting aside a worst-case scenario, being seen as just your boss’s right-hand man can also be “detrimental to your career in the long run because nobody but your boss appreciates what you can do,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Reputation Career Learning-by-Doing Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

During a long and illustrious career that is far from over (you can read all about one of his most recent ventures — building the most direct fiber-optic connection between Chicago and New York – in Chapter One of Michael Lewis’s new book ), Barksdale has become a big believer in the value of the folksy aphorism as management tool.

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Advice Management CAPEX Wireless 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yet, even smart companies are often clueless about how to leverage their employees’ insights that would enable them to tap into this huge and exploding Latino market — a market that is projected to reach $1.7 ” Multinational companies based in the US are desperate to unlock this growth market.

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EPS Banking Diversity Bottom-up 8