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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business

Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change. Inventory challenges aren’t new. In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped.

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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

During his twelve-and-a-half-year tenure, he worked in finance and strategic planning before taking over as leader of Epcot theme park on the week of 911, 2001. He was offered an executive job at Disney and moved to Orlando, Florida, in 1994.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Collins, J. HarperBusiness. Dhar, U., &

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Podcast Statistics and Data [March 2023]

Buzzsprout

Podcasting has experienced significant growth since its creation in 2001. We update this post monthly with the best podcast statistics so you can stay updated on the industry and make informed decisions about your own podcast! JUMP TO A SECTION: How popular are podcasts? mobile devices, and in-dash entertainment systems. 75% of the U.S.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Data-driven decision-making has become somewhat of a buzzword as many leaders and organizations aim to be data-driven. References Acemoglu, D., & Collins, J.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Moreover, when it comes to that metric beloved by stock market analysts and investors, total returns to shareholders, these firms also outperformed.

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When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm

Harvard Business

What they found surprised them. As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. Ergo: heuristics win. There are other areas where the heuristic advantage might be even greater.

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