Executive Management
The world was stunned recently by the death of a soccer official at the hands of a 17-year-old goalie. One single unsportsmanlike act created a cascade of devastation with two lives lost, and families and teams reeling in its wake. Companies face similar risks every day—not necessarily death—but...
The world was stunned recently by the death of a soccer official at the hands of a 17-year-old goalie. One single unsportsmanlike act created a cascade of devastation with two lives lost, and families and teams reeling in its wake. Companies face similar risks everyday - not necessarily death -...
The current state of the U.S. labor market is generating a significant conversation about the availability of skilled talent especially in light of the manufacturing renaissance underway. The creation and implementation of a sustainable pipeline of talent is integral to both human capital and...
Virtually every organization has a business strategy. But it’s the ability to execute that strategy that separates winners from losers in the marketplace every time. So why aren’t your people executing the strategy? In a nutshell, it’s because your people systems are misaligned with it.
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Recently there's been a lot of talk about the "Industrial Internet," a term coined by GE to describe the network that harnesses the power of intelligent machines and big data to gain real-time insights into everything from production bottlenecks to pending maintenance issues. According to a recent...
U.S. companies spend an estimated $800 billion on sales compensation annually. Ideally, the underlying compensation plans are designed to encourage behaviors that support business strategy; more often than not, however, they are at least somewhat misaligned with strategy, which itself is a moving...
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Kim Denney, a Partner with Newport Board Group and former MAPI Division Leadership Council chair, will share her research into the practice of servant leadership in today’s workplace. In contrast to traditional “top down” approaches, servant leaders share...
Several organizations, including the U.S. Armed Forces, have reaped significant benefits from using servant leadership to create a culture that values serving first and leading second. In contrast to traditional top-down approaches, servant leaders share power, put the needs of others first, and...
While the U.S. barely averted the fiscal cliff, the possibility of sequestration still looms large. The federal government may still impose drastic across-the-board spending reductions for federal contractors. Replay this MAPI webinar to hear government contracting expert Beth Ferrell discuss the...
MAPI’s global report for December 2012 analyzes the recent economic performance of key regions and offers a forecast of world growth, the dollar, and U.S. export and import growth. As the protracted saga of world economic troubles that began in 2007 persists, there is growing concern that a wide...