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Let The Sign Talk For You!

Strategy Driven

Not only for visual and promotional functions, but signs also give attention to your customers through directing them to your merchandises, as well as giving them information about when your store would have sales, new products, and promotions, just like what a human resource officer does.

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Breaking the Rules

You're Not the Boss of Me

As they often say in retail stores about handling merchandise, “ If you break it you own it”. And second, be prepared to accept the consequences that may come from circumventing or defying rules There is always the chance that circumventing a rule can cause grief for someone else, some where else in the organization or outside it.

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How to Innovate When You're Not the Big Boss

Harvard Business Review

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Senior management doesn't really encourage innovation, you'll hear. They won't let me take risks."

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3 Changes Retailers Need to Make to Survive

Harvard Business Review

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. Engage executives in continuous small sprints.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business Review

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The next morning, Lance was in his office when he got a text from Jhumpa, the head of product and merchandising: Can you talk? “Unfortunately, I think we’re beyond that.”

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AI Is Getting Good Enough to Delegate the Work It Can’t Do

Harvard Business Review

When most people think about humans and robots working together, they tend to assume that it’s the human giving the instructions. Robots, after all, are good at following commands or rote tasks, not the messy world of management, right? But that’s just a starting point.

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Merging Two Global Company Cultures

Harvard Business Review

“I’m pretty convinced that there are superficial differences in culture and communication and how people do things,” said the global human resources officer. ” Successfully managing with culture in mind is an art based on judgment – like a tightrope act, it hinges on balance. Healthy debate.