Posts Tagged ‘Wal-Mart’
This week’s most clicked
Bartz gets the boot from Yahoo!; what the CEO of Symantec learned from Shakespeare; and why being excellent is better than being perfect. Read about all this and more in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Leadership: Yahoo! tells Carol Bartz to pack her bags Wal-Mart lost a lawsuit but still looks [...]
How employees steered 5 companies to sustainability success
This post is by SmartBrief Editor Rebecca Pollack Scherr. Employees are the No. 1 driver of change when it comes to sustainability, said Marc Gunther, a journalist who focuses on business and sustainability. Gunther closed the Sustainability Summit, hosted last week by the Food Marketing Institute and the Grocery Manufacturers Association in Arlington, Va., with [...]
Don Soderquist, on why ethics are important
While I was at SHRM’s annual conference out in San Diego last week, I was fortunate enough to spend some time talking with Don Soderquist, founding executive of The Soderquist Center for Leadership and Ethics and former chief operating officer of Wal-Mart, about the importance of ethics and values in business leadership. Among his insights: [...]
This week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: 11 ways to make air travel go more smoothly Zappos CEO: You can’t neglect culture 3 tips for developing high potentials Did HR play a role in the BP disaster? Lawyers warned Wal-Mart of gender-disparity problems
Don’t be clueless about strategy
Today’s guest post is from John Roulet, author of “The Supervision Solution.” Learn more about his work at TheSupervisionSolution.com. What is strategy and how is it done? Wouldn’t it be great to answer those questions accurately and without hesitation? Our uncertainty about strategy isn’t surprising. Rarely do those responsible for strategy even bother to define [...]
