Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Differentiate the product base. Operate more efficiently. Recharge the culture. Commit to quality. Define new aspirational goals. Deliver on opportunities. Develop and align talent. Develop the optimal portfolio of differentiated brands. Enable technology. Engage globally. Enhance the digital experience. Focus on our strengths.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

If you take the meaning, and not the words behind the imperatives, you see the need for a culture change. How to make decisions about how to take the code to the next place to get more value out of the code (product). As we learn together, we can create the product. Typing is how we construct the product.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash. Tight company cultures value consistency and routine. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Culture is like the wind. For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. But culture change can’t be achieved through top-down mandate. Product packaging was redesigned to be more user-friendly and increase adherence.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Studies reveal that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. Employees are more likely to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. Productivity, wages, and intrinsic motivations. Servant leadership across cultures.

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Leadership Journal Pharmaceuticals Study 68

LSA Global

JULY 23, 2021

7 Questions to Get to Know Your Team to Improve Engagement To get to know your new direct reports so that you can begin to establish a healthy and productive working relationship, here are seven questions to ask them that can jump-start the process. It also should point out cultural and process areas for improvement.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There is no perfect organizational culture, and there is no infallible leader. Challenger safety – This is the last stage when others are able to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. It is best to consider both continuous works in progress.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

Immigration does not merely increase the size of the population in the destination country; it also increases demographic and cultural diversity, particularly when immigrants have come from very distant countries. In fact, whether cultural diversity carries more economic benefits than costs is still a hotly disputed question among scholars.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this episode, we are talking about ways that you can effectively position yourself as an expert in your field, how to get your expertise recognized, and the danger of productizing your work, as well as what you should be doing instead. With productized, you do it the other way around. I realized that’s how it should be done.

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. What Affects Employee Productivity? There are plenty of factors impacting people’s productivity – from proper workflow organization to employees’ lifestyle and health condition. Company culture . Let’s figure it out in the article. .

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 26, 2014

Danny Meyer has revolutionized restaurant culture around the world (starting with Union Square Cafe and then with many other eating places) by placing an emphasis on generosity. It’s entirely possible to create buildings or signs or products that are brutally efficient, where no effort is put into grace or style or beauty.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

However, higher accruals can reflect either innocuous aspects of certain business models, such as in the construction industry, where the time lag between earning income and realizing cash is long, or that growing firms retain higher working capital to meet greater current and future customer demand. Corporate culture.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2017

About the Research We collected all available publications, working papers, and dissertations that compared family and non-family firms when it comes to their investments in innovation (in terms of R&D expenses) as well as their innovation success (in terms of introducing new products, patents, and patent citations). Why might this be?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Potential benefits to the insurance industry include: Revenue expansion: The real-time learning and adaptive capabilities of AI provide a platform for insurers to explore new product lines, geographies, and cus­tomer segments, as well as quickly identify new avenues for revenue expansion. Start small.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Once the initial BDN has been constructed, measures for each of the benefits and responsibilities for all of the benefits and changes must then be assigned and time scales established. To address this problem, this retailer planned to tag products at the item level.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

For many working parents and for the organizations that employ them, remote work is a go-to move for increasing work/life balance, productivity, and retention. How do you establish constructive workplace relationships with people you see infrequently? . Now comes the hard part. Feed the baby while on the conference call!

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, Ryan, LLC has been lauded far and wide (and rightly so) for how they transformed its successful but overly time-intensive workplace into an even more successful firm that now couples its high-performance culture with respect for time flexibility. Turnover plummeted; satisfaction, engagement, and financial performance soared.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Leading meetings lets them exercise these muscles in the normal course of work, which is often more efficient and powerful than sending them to a training program. Who has the most empathy when different cultures, personalities, or perspectives need to be honored and included? Add to Cart.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 22, 2023

Cultural or language barriers: In diverse work environments, leaders may struggle to effectively communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds or who speak different languages. Decreased productivity and efficiency: Inefficient communication can result in delays, duplicated work, and missed deadlines.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 28, 2010

Operations assumes this status quo as a “given” and works within current procedures to improve them and “operationalize” them with a high degree of efficiency. Development, on the other hand is a constructive conspiracy. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. In most operations the problem is clear and solutions are knowable.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

When you don’t get a seat at the table and it’s negatively affecting your team’s ability to collaborate, coordinate, and communicate as they work toward your organization’s goals, it’s your responsibility to come forth, advocate for yourself and your team, and raise the issue in a constructive manner.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 27, 2017

For example, one highly successful, privately-held producer of canned foods actively sought a board member who could challenge management to think differently but who would still fit with the company’s family-oriented governance culture. Board members need to understand that failing to confront difficult issues will not help the CEO.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

As a Bersin report pointed out: “The single biggest driver of business impact is the strength of an organization’s learning culture.” Here are four science-based recommendations to help you create a learning culture on your team or in your organization: Reward continuous learning. ” You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Value is in the products and services themselves.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

” It could be that he’s wary of your organization’s “blaming culture.” ” The conversation should be constructive and one-on-one, Finkelstein adds. ’” One colleague told him that Frank was “passionate” about the company and product design but lacked managerial experience.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

That's why we have projects—to work on this product for now, until we've delivered something. See Projects, Products, and the Project Portfolio: Part 1, Organize the Work to see what I mean about projects. Single-function “teams” reinforced resource efficiency thinking. Then we can move to the next project.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

” Product quality stunk. As an industry, our product quality still stunk. The thinking was if we could get the process right, we could get great products faster, cheaper, and with better quality. Sort of like construction projects. At the time, the PMP was more focused on construction projects.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

I asked Brad these questions: Do you have product or feature teams that are cross-functional and can release alone? ( Component teams create interdependencies and take much more time to finish work.). Does each team focus on just one product at a time? Schedule Variance Does Not Make Sense for Software Products.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

Advanced materials and new construction methods were bringing far greater complexity to manufacturing processes. Product innovations (such as sensors in athletic shoes to detect incipient injury) could add additional layers of complexity. Understand their characteristics.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies. But a lot can get lost in the averages.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 13, 2017

Their design is based on the history of their culture, their work, and their people. For companies like McKinsey who have the resources to hire the best designers in the world, they are incredibly efficient with this space. By looking at their homepage and how it’s constructed. How do we know this?

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

More and more people are working remotely, and many say it improves their productivity and satisfaction — while also saving them time and money. ” But, in fact, research suggests the opposite: Working from home increases productivity, efficiency, and engagement. Stephen Smith for HBR. ” Devise a plan.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

The grand vision at the heart of his last project is now being unveiled as Apple finalizes construction on Apple Park. Silicon Valley has dealt with this challenge for decades, but the unique culture of the region gives its companies a competitive advantage. That there is no childcare center.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

Over three quarters of the $ 350 billion global space industry revenues are driven by commercial products, services, infrastructure, and support industries.) In 1993 NASA was directed by the White House to collaborate with other nations on the design and construction of the International Space Station. Adapting to change.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Organizations desire certainty, success, and efficiency, and it is uncertainty, failure, and inefficiency that are sources of innovation. Many organizational cultures are designed to keep employees from taking risks. Silence is not golden - everyone can speak up and constructively challenge one another and the status quo. “If

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2018

Here’s why: New technologies come to consumers as finished products that can be exchanged for money. The intuitive belief that technology can manifest from money alone, anthropologists tell us , is a culturally rooted notion which hides the fact that the scarcity experienced by some is linked to the abundance enjoyed only by a few.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Ambiguity around personal goals, leads to anxiety, misplaced effort and lost productivity. From the early concept of Quality Circles (circa 1970) to more recent experimentation with self–direction, teamworking can positively affect morale, innovation and productivity. Am I the goalkeeper or the centre forward?

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