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How Scientific Thinking Won the Women’s World Cup Title

Markovitz Consulting

Coach Jill Ellis noticed that Sweden employed a fundamentally different strategy than she expected. Critics assailed Ellis for not knowing what she was doing, and making the most talented team in the world look bad. To add to the problem, many of her key players were getting older. She needed to make changes. But what changes?

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Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business

Often, when I’m asked to give a speech on strategy at some company event or conference, I find that one of the other speakers is a former professional sports player. Although there is nothing wrong with commitment and perseverance, I, however, think sport (much less war) is often an unhelpful analogy.

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How are organizations deciding where and how people work? CHROs share their strategies.

Brimstone Consulting

A manufacturer of sporting equipment described employing a similar approach – after first going in a different direction: “Prior to the pandemic, 95% of our workforce worked in the office. We are competing for talent and the ability for people to work remotely is a differentiator.” CHROs share their strategies.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are.

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Go Faster Alone but Farther Together

Chad Barr

Under his guidance, LEGO adopted a collaborative ethos, rallying its entire workforce around a pivotal strategy that focused on the iconic LEGO brick, deepened community engagement, and streamlined its operations. The appointment of Jørgen Vig Knudstorp as CEO marked the turning point.

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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

Problem: lack of clarity around strategy. Solution: Hoshin kanri (often called strategy deployment, or policy deployment) is typically misunderstood as a form of strategic planning. Leaving aside the problem of underperformers, there’s the very real problem of putting talented, motivated people in the wrong job.

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Architecting Your Future

Chad Barr

Other passions of mine include: the development of web strategies and digital content for us and our clients, playing the guitar, spending precious time with my family (did I tell you about my grandkids yet?) and my most recent passion, playing the hottest and fastest growing sport in the US – Pickle Ball. More on that soon.

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