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More Evidence For How Company Performance Is Affected By CEO Personality

LDRLB

We regularly share information and costs across business activities. Our strategy emphasizes versatility and empowerment in allocating human resources. Conscientious folks are “high achievers that feel a strong need to take responsibility for doing things immediately” (p. percent in return on assets (ROA), 5.01

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. Some of the more obvious benefits of knowledge management are: Sharing of valuable organizational information throughout organizational hierarchy.

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Make Your Company Customer-Centric – and Increase Profitability by a Whopping 75 Percent

Strategy Driven

Technology has provided us with unprecedented advances, information, knowledge, instant access and entertainment. However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly. It has changed the way we communicate, behave and think. But it has also led to a dramatic decline in our people skills.

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Making Matrix Organizations Actually Work

Harvard Business Review

For example, the French global energy player ENGIE recently tilted its primary dimension from product (such as power, services, and infrastructure) toward region in order to better serve its clients in the territories in which it operates. But such reorgs don’t make silos go away — they just create new ones.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. ” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge.