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The Secret of a Thriving Company Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

It's frustrating and confusing when values are only words for marketing campaigns and corporate communications. Market Culture creates a competitive, fast-paced, results-oriented environment. This culture emphasizes efficient, reliable, and cost-effective performance. This culture highlights coming in first. Dvorak, N., &

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

link] Development is an essential investment to realize the full potential of your organization and prepare the next generation. link] Most economists hold a belief that a more efficient workforce leads to competitive advantage and lowers the costs of goods and services. Robots and jobs: Evidence from US labor markets.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business

.” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in.

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

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Consumer Warning Labels Aren’t Working

Harvard Business

But designing an efficient warning system is more complicated than it might appear. In 2001 the U.S. This practice leads highly cautious consumers to lump low-risk products in with mass-marketed products that actually merit such a warning and encourages many others to simply ignore warnings.

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CEOs Should Think Like Founders, Not Just Managers

Harvard Business

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously.

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. In other words, the most digital sectors are developing a winner-take-all dynamic.