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Having contemplated making a few changes in my life I thought that this approach to “change management” was extremely insightful and tremendously manageable. Hopefully, others will feel the same. Let me know what you think and what approaches you employ to make change manageable.
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August 27th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
I took the past week off because I was spending time with a real-life business leader; my brother-in-law and our collective families. However, because this week marks the close of the first season of Undercover Boss I wanted to share my insights and perspectives as I have for the past few weeks.
Week 9 of Undercover Boss featured 1-800-Flowers a publicly-traded (NASDAQ: FLWS), florist and gift company that has been providing customers with fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, confections, balloons and plush stuffed animals. Chris McCann, President [read more]
April 12th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
I took the past week off because I was spending time with a real-life business leader; my brother-in-law and our collective families. However, because this week marks the close of the first season of Undercover Boss I wanted to share my insights and perspectives as I have for the past few weeks.
Week 9 of Undercover Boss featured 1-800-Flowers a publicly-traded (NASDAQ: FLWS), florist and gift company that has been providing customers with fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, confections, balloons and plush stuffed animals. Chris McCann, President [read more]
April 11th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
I took the past week off because I was spending time with a real-life business leader; my brother-in-law and our collective families. However, because this week marks the close of the first season of Undercover Boss I wanted to share my insights and perspectives as I have for the past few weeks.
Week 9 of Undercover Boss featured 1-800-Flowers a publicly-traded (NASDAQ: FLWS), florist and gift company that has been providing customers with fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, confections, balloons and plush stuffed animals. Chris McCann, President [read more]
April 11th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
I took the past week off because I was spending time with a real-life business leader; my brother-in-law and our collective families. However, because this week marks the close of the first season of Undercover Boss I wanted to share my insights and perspectives as I have for the past few weeks.
Week 9 of Undercover Boss featured 1-800-Flowers a publicly-traded (NASDAQ: FLWS), florist and gift company that has been providing customers with fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, confections, balloons and plush stuffed animals. Chris McCann, President [read more]
April 11th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
I took the past week off because I was spending time with a real-life business leader; my brother-in-law and our collective families. However, because this week marks the close of the first season of Undercover Boss I wanted to share my insights and perspectives as I have for the past few weeks.
Week 9 of Undercover Boss featured 1-800-Flowers a publicly-traded (NASDAQ: FLWS), florist and gift company that has been providing customers with fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, confections, balloons and plush stuffed animals. Chris McCann, President [read more]
April 11th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
I took the past week off because I was spending time with a real-life business leader; my brother-in-law and our collective families. However, because this week marks the close of the first season of Undercover Boss I wanted to share my insights and perspectives as I have for the past few weeks.
Week 9 of Undercover Boss featured 1-800-Flowers a publicly-traded (NASDAQ: FLWS), florist and gift company that has been providing customers with fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, confections, balloons and plush stuffed animals. Chris McCann, President [read more]
April 11th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
Week 7 of Undercover Boss featured Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE) a privately owned, and largest (22 properties in 9 states), family owned themed-entertainment company that operates several theme parks and tourist attractions within the United States. They share a number of characteristics with Week 5’s featured company: Churchill Downs. Not least of which is a storied history and very talented CEO. Joel Hanby is the President and CEO of the company. Hanby has an awesome background including being a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, attending [read more]
March 28th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
This weeks Undercover Boss captured my attention for a different reason than weeks past. Sure it’s more of the same (I still like the personal stories), but because they featured a company pretty close to where I live, I felt a personal obligation. In fact, I know exactly where their corporate offices are – I used to drive by it on my way to and from work – so I immediately felt a connection. Based in King of Prussia, PA, GSI Commerce® is the leading [read more]
March 21st, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
After a disappointing absence (err… unexpected repeat last week – presumably due to the Academy Awards) Undercover Boss resumed this week for the fifth episode. This week the series profiled Churchill Downs Inc. executive William (Bill) Carstanjen.
Churchill Downs Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Ky., is a $500 million dollar company that owns and operates world-renowned horse racing venues throughout the United States. The Company’s four racetracks in Florida, Illinois, Kentucky and Louisiana host many of North America’s most prestigious races, including the [read more]
March 14th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
Week 4 of Undercover Boss featured Dave Rife, co-owner and Executive Board Member of America’s oldest hamburger chain: White Castle. White Castle, headquartered in Columbus, OH, this family owned and known for small square burgers – sometimes referred to, and today trademarked as “Slyders” – the company has a number of firsts: the first restaurant to sell a million hamburgers, the first to sell a billion hamburgers, and the first to sell frozen fast food.
Core values: integrity, honesty, job security.
Lesson 1: You may think that [read more]
February 28th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
Weeks 1 and 2 of Undercover Boss were pretty informative, enlightening and inspirational, so I am going to continue this series of observations and synthesis of the lessons I am learning from the show. This week featured Joe DePinto, President and CEO of the convenience store giant 7-Eleven. There are very few brands, especially retail chains that have the global reach (36,000 stores worldwide) and recognition than 7-11. They pretty much defined what we consider to be the modern convenience store.
Every employee has a story [read more]
February 21st, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
Last week, after the Super Bowl, I decided to watch Undercover Boss. I was reluctant because I didn’t want some made-for-TV garbage, I was hoping to find some insight and inspiration. Week 1, was a great success in my opinion, but one week does not a successful TV series make. With that said, I watched again this week to see if I could glean similar insights and also report them back.
On Undercover Boss tonight, we got a chance to see Coby Brooks, president and CEO [read more]
February 14th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
After the Super Bowl I decided to watch Undercover Boss on ABC. Admittedly, I was a bit reluctant to watch it, but something was nagging at me to watch the show. The premier featured Waste Management and their President / COO Larry O’Donnell and what he learned when he went undercover within his organization. What follows is what I learned from the show:
The higher up you are in a corporation/organization, the more chance that you are either out of touch or growing further out of [read more]
February 7th, 2010 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
Wishing all my friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year
Posted via email from Dave Sabol
December 24th, 2009 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
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