The people part of business operations.
There is a new trend of employee scheduling that is sweeping through various industries at the present time. That is the practice of Just-in-Time scheduling. It is particularly concentrated in restaurants, hotels, and retail outlets, but will probably be spreading to other industries soon. The premise of this practice is that it supposedly allows these […]
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Nathan Ott, CEO of eg.1 By the very nature of our role, as leaders, we need to create a vision that galvanizes people. We have to empower our teams to keep our organizations moving forward. To be truly successful we have to constantly challenge the status quo and encourage our people to change the game
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Yadvinder S. Rana, Founder, Neglob International negotiations are complex and ambiguous. They usually involve multiple parties acting in specific contexts with divergent objectives, priorities, cultures, and personalities. This is the reason why effective negotiators design the game in their favor even before they get to the table. They transform the negotiation scope and structure by
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Dr. Stacy Feiner, Executive Coach & Author, Talent Mindset: The Business Owner’s Guide to Building Bench Strength Many middle market CEOs are stuck in an exhausting reality of wanting a strong bench of talent but not being able to build one. Leaders exert a tremendous amount of thought and energy trying to build a workforce
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Robert A. Adelson, Attorney Many CEOs and other high-ranking executives are regularly asked to serve on boards of directors. Indeed, the industry knowledge, business acumen and day-to-day management experience that C-level executives have make them perfect candidates to serve on a board, whether it be an outside board or the board of directors of their
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Howard Dorman, Partner, CPA, WeiserMazars LLP How do CEOs and other C-level executives of large international companies view human rights? According to a recent survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and several companies including WeiserMazars LLP, 83% of executives believe that human rights is not only a central theme
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The strategic planning review meeting started on a downbeat note. “We just lost Acme, our biggest customer. How could this happen?” Fred, the CEO of what I’ll call Precision Manufacturing, was more sad than angry. “Acme always gave us a positive review in our annual survey. We visit them at least monthly. How could this
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The word “innovation” is such a constant in meetings around the world that it has almost become a contender for “corporate buzzword bingo.” Although it is often over-used it is not always well understood in terms of how it should be implemented into organizational culture, or even how it might be best used as a
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John G. Taft, CEO, RBC Wealth Management As Chief Executive Officers, we each have a responsibility to set the tone not just for our individual companies but for our industries and society at large. I believe this is so in every industry, but in no sector is more so today than in financial services, where
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Joe Siegrist, CEO & Co-founder, LastPass As the past year has shown, the evolution of technology has created a tidal wave of new security risks and concerns for businesses. Every day, more companies are seeing their names in the headlines after a breach in security. Aside from bad press, businesses that suffer from a data
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