Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. ” “We have so much to learn from sports culture”, Bunge continued. He will always know how he performs.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. These expectation-setting actions provided a public platform to build a performance-oriented culture and were crucial in transforming the culture.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001. Contrary to popular belief, cultivating a high-trust culture is not a “soft” skill — it’s a hard necessity. This clear manifestation of respect powers huge inflections in organizational culture.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Collins, J. HarperBusiness.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies, collapsed in 2001, it sent shock waves through the corporate world. Each person played the role of a sales manager and answered a series of questions about the business they “worked” for.

Ethics 70

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 26, 2019

Then in 2001 Takeru Kobayashi smashed the record and ate 50 in one sitting. Raising the performance bar is a cultural phenomenon that can be applied to the business world. We call an environment that stimulates the individuals within that context to significantly improve their performance a high performance culture.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Lucky for me, the world cooperated and our entire culture shifted from one based on long-term affilitations (you know, ''jobs'') to projects. Using the 80/20 rule as a guide, I realized that the top 30 titles probably accounted for more than 95% of their sales. But projects, one after the other, mark my career.

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MishTalk

MAY 21, 2014

I did not like the cultural change so I left and became an independent consultant. I was on a project at US Bank in Minneapolis involving a merger or sale of a Piper Jeffrey trading system. I met Pater under a different name on Silicon Investor in 2001. I have been through more bank mergers than one could imagine.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Lakhani then provided the dates at which Nokia had offered those features: an app store in 2001 , a touch screen in 2002 , a web browser in 2006. Why, then, did Apple prevail?

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