CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

I have been a leader throughout my whole career which started in late teens when I was fortunate enough to be provided with an opportunity to participate in a two-year supervisor traineeship with a large retailer in Adelaide. Personally and professionally I am influenced heavily by my ethics and standards.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

Loblaws , Canada’s largest food retailer, announced that they were discontinuing French’s ketchup, claiming that the new brand’s sales weren’t cutting it. Nonetheless, when a retailer with the size and clout of Loblaws makes a call like this, it is game-over for the supplier. The pressure mounted and the grocery chain folded.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

To be a strong leader, you need to show an unshakeable work ethic. You set the bar of potential through your own work ethic, but you also have to shore up your defenses and patch up any weaknesses. Your team is only as great as you show them to be.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

s employee resource groups (ERGs), what we can do to make the boardroom more equitable, and her key leadership lessons. . corporate and retail benefits-eligible employees with up to eight weeks of paid time off per year to care for an immediate family member with a serious health condition. . The HR Digest: What is LS&Co.’s

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 27, 2011

Behar was loved and respected throughout Starbucks for his heart and passion as well as his work ethic, openmindedness and judgment about the retail business. After Behar retired, he continued to serve on Starbucks’ board of directors.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021.

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Modern Servant Leader

JULY 2, 2024

Servant Leadership Library of Books What are the Best Books About Servant Leadership? This collection of books is a compilation of both servant-leadership focused texts as well as books on other, closely related topics, that pair well with servant-leadership.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I’ll start with leadership. There might be elements that are worth emulating, but certainly not the ethic of dominance, because by their very nature, small and medium sized operations have no clout. Thousands of small to medium sized businesses are successfully doing this. There are far more than you think.

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Thin Difference

AUGUST 8, 2019

Coaching leaders hold themselves to high standards in relationships, work ethic, and confidentiality. An organization with expertise in coaching leadership can come alongside your leaders to build them into strong coaching leaders for the organization. They’re willing to have the hard conversations. Guest Post.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 20, 2012

& Doug Lennick: If you’re in a leadership position, you make hundreds of decisions each day – and most of those have the potential to impact the well-being of others. Incidentally, Costco employees sell twice as much merchandise per square foot of retail space as their nearest competitor – Sam’s Club! Guest post by Fred Kiel, Ph.D.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Starting from scratch and using the principles and techniques shared in this book, Morrill co-founded businesses in automotive retail, real estate, telecommunications, and insurance that generate over $100,000,000 in annual revenue.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Many books have been written on the subject of leadership. My own philosophy of leadership starts with the premise that every dynamic of a successful organization must be in some way aimed towards its stakeholders. 7 Plateaus of Work Ethic.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. In examining what took them so long to react, Stumpf’s comments portray a leadership team that refused to believe the sales fraud could be systemic in a culture such as theirs. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The bad news is it’s so full of retail shopping incentives, mobs of people, and ‘today only deals’ that the festivity of Thanksgiving is somewhat lost in the shuffle. Your humor, your friendliness, your helpfulness, your approachability, your trustworthiness, your honesty, your ethics, and maybe even your morality.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. Tesco, the success story of the British retail scene for the last 20 years, has suddenly fallen from grace. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. Ethics Global business Retail' How did this happen?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. Employee theft and shoplifting accounting for 15% of the retail cost of merchandise. Retaining good employees, involving training, motivation and incentives, is yet another matter.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. Empathy, we found, is correlated with ethics, and any ethical failure can prove costly. The nudges may seem insignificant in isolation, but in aggregate they can have a big impact.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. To the general public, it has come to epitomize the dysfunction of Wall Street—the greed, risk and lack of ethics that drove profits over the last twenty years, but went relatively ignored until the recent collapse.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Walking the Talk: ethics, values, quality, vision. Product-service movement at retail levels. He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. Giving back to those who support the company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

And although the retail giant's green efforts have done a lot to showcase the company's commitment to sustainability, sometimes Walmart gives its critics some legitimate ammo, like the recent revelations and allegations of corruption in its Mexican operations. The totality of a company's actions does matter.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

With technology's ability to circulate information at light speed, the traditional six-month cycle that spanned from runway coverage to retail availability has been completely obliterated. The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership. How Ethical Are You? HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Stumpf said in an earlier statement: “We are eliminating product sales goals because we want to make certain our customers have full confidence that our retail bankers are always focused on the best interests of customers.” Large-scale unethical sales practices often begin with minor ethical compromises.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Product-service movement at retail levels. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. Downtime rates and meantime between downtimes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

A full 30% also said the structure of their compensation plans encouraged law-breaking or ethics violations. Farhad Manjoo looks at Amazon's warehouse expansion — the internet retailer is investing some $1.2 Leadership Advice from Six Major CEOs and One President (McKinsey). 50 SHADES OF I-WANT-IT-TODAY.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

Consider these three examples: In 2014 the US healthcare retailer CVS decided to stop selling cigarettes, at an estimated cost of $2 billion, due to it being “the right thing for us to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health,” according to Larry Merlo, CEO. .” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Customers feel better for making the purchase because of enhanced prestige, perceived excellence, or uniqueness; the product is enjoyable or entertaining to use, or is made for ethical reasons (e.g. offering is environmentally friendly). The other side of the emotional coin is security, reducing the risk of feeling bad. Gross Margin Uplift.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

With the company's retail insights into the browsing, shopping, and purchasing behaviors of its customers, its views into entrepreneurial investment through its Web Services offering, and its Kindle and Fire media consumption devices, Amazon is extraordinarily well-positioned to strategically invest in explicit companies or particular sectors.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

One of the charges being levied in the Indian High Court was that Coke and Pepsi products were addictive and unhealthy, Hmmm…More recently there have been a number of energy drinks and dietary supplements that have been pulled from retail shelves because of health hazards posed by addictive consumption. Thoughts?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

As a result, workers are less productive, less healthy, even less ethical. Long hours also make it harder for women to advance into leadership roles. As a result, somewhere between five and 15 million additional workers will be eligible for overtime, most in retail and food service and most of them women.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Inspiring these consumers to help make electronics retailing more women-friendly, they gave what was at best a loosely connected network of customers some of the trappings of a community. Informal leadership Managing people' Like its rivals, Best Buy tended to sell consumer electronics from a strongly male perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Now 30, she works for Louis Vuitton China's retail department and would like to have a career in luxury goods, perhaps in sales development or public relations. "Of Julia Jia was the first girl from her small village in Shandong Province to go to university.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

This has been our experience at Ocado, a leading online-only grocery retailer, as we’ve embedded AI across our technology estate. The technology that powers this revolutionary solution is designed and built in-house, and we are now making this platform available to large brick-and-mortar grocery retailers around the world.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. I’m focusing on health and fitness, and to that end I’m inviting you to join me.

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