Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. When Admiral Clark assumed the CNO role, the Navy was not meeting its sailor retention goals.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

In this article, we focus primarily on behavioral goals, such as becoming a better listener or more effective at involving team members in decisions. Much of the published research in the field of goal setting involves health-related goals … by Marshall Goldsmith and Kelly Goldsmith. Leaders need to develop other leaders.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

I’ve seen many organizations progress from blaming those nameless jerks in another department to working together toward the goal of better patient care. Lean organizations engage every employee, regardless of the letters after their names, in improvement through Plan Do Study Adjust cycles and a Kaizen improvement process.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

and the world for example.   On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    Hope that I've helped some in the process.  It's only by looking back that we see how things developed and how one thing led to another. Take a look at the U.S.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

The Civil Rights and more recent Tea Party movements are good examples of what happens when angry followers decide to do something to change the status quo. Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2005 the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh Inc., Stumpf said in an earlier statement: “We are eliminating product sales goals because we want to make certain our customers have full confidence that our retail bankers are always focused on the best interests of customers.” Will eliminating sales goals do it?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. The merging of the two businesses is a reversal for HP.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

But before the hiring team starts measuring candidates’ culture fit, they need to be able to define and articulate the organization’s culture – its values, goals, and practices — and then weave this understanding into the hiring process. This would be a key signal of culture fit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Frequently, when I speak at a company with a strong “yes” culture, I ask the employees to close their eyes and raise their hands if they are currently working on a project that they don’t believe will be successful — something they don’t believe will accomplish its goals. Pay attention to warning signs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Companies therefore need to adapt their various processes—strategy, budgeting, talent—to this reality. Adaptable Processes Identify and modify key business processes, policies, and procedures to align with the new ways of operating.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Following the Challenger explosion, NASA did take concrete steps to correct flawed organizational processes. For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. ” Over time, though, several processes promote gradual forgetting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

In response, more and more employers are providing Employee Assistance Programs (74% in 2012, up from 46% in 2005) and wellness programs (63% in 2012, up from 47% in 2005). Employees are rewarded for following through on their goals with either a reduction in premiums or paid time off.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. For example, I have taken 8,000 HR software applications (largely focused on the HR needs of individual IBM country units) down to under 1,000.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Global accounting standards have evolved through such a process. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images. In contrast, the U.S.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

But the only problem is, you have absolutely no authority or control of that other department, and since your hand off process is ill defined, the communications you have had with the other department head has been poor, and the cross-department acrimony level is high, all that great work you did under your own roof is about to be squandered.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Shell is an excellent example. Each goal is tied to Unilever’s core business activity. Less than a quarter of business executives interviewed by McKinsey reported having the management resources, talent and processes to engage with stakeholders effectively. These are not philanthropic ambitions. Engage radically.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Our goal was not to mimic the innovation process at any specific firm, but to develop a model that was as simple as possible without oversimplifying. A 2005 survey of 306 German companies showed that ideas yielding a return worth 1.4 Simulated people are programmed to act like real individuals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Set measurable goals for improving quality of care, and ensure that goals are achieved equitably for all racial and ethnic groups. For example, reducing disparities in effective asthma treatment by 10% for African American workers could save more than $1,600 per person annually in medical expenses and costs of missed work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

government are two good — and very different — examples. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. The answer is simple: Many companies focus too much on technology and not enough on process. Merely having processes isn’t enough. But has remote work lived up to the hype? In some organizations, yes.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 27, 2010

A great example to me is what I see every year at SOBCon , the conference I co-host with Liz Strauss. Not just dreams, but also goals, action steps, key thoughts and ideas. I think it’s definitely important to write down your goals somewhere so you have an idea of where you are going. Amen to intent.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

” But our goal isn’t simply to minimize the influence of luck; it’s to minimize the chance that bad luck will lead to an unacceptable circumstances, be that starving, divorce, failing to achieve the autonomy you crave, etc. .” If you want to minimize the chance of bad luck, he says, be a dentist.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Some large employers are doing this: They have used their purchasing power to engage their major providers and health plans to join them in a collaborative process aimed at eliminating waste. If other employers follow the example of the three collaboratives in their local markets, the pace of health care reform will greatly accelerate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

In a customer service center, for example, you would create scripts for every possible interaction. To keep costs under control, you’d set goals for reducing it every year. Bush took over American Express’s far-flung service operations in 2005. It depended upon four key elements: A clear goal.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 4, 2010

Leading a group of people is a lot like conducting a grand experiment, where the “scientist&# ( the leader ) fills a laboratory ( the business ) with test subjects ( the team ), and then sets up parameters, calibrates goals, and eventually makes a hypothesis on each one of them. Then, every day, those hypothesis get tested.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit. Their sample included 35,081 firms and 407 buyouts that took place between 1998 and 2005. Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. that didn’t undergo buyouts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

The Internet of Things is a good example of this change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. When Kodak undertook the painful process of embracing disruption and transforming itself into a digital company, its planned destination was a new way of printing photos on paper. inch vs. 3.5-inch digital-camera sales (No. 3 globally).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) Scharpf and the SHE team, for example, first identified in banana-plants a local agro-waste fiber, and after experimenting, concluded that it had the potential to be an absorbent, cheap, safe material. Emotion Attracts Good People.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

And, if all those elements noted above are part of the process, those benefits and go beyond value, and into the realm of lasting positive impressions, and long-time unfailing loyalty. Your example couldnt be more evident. The buyer gets great value, and the seller gets the personal satisfaction of delivering the value. Great story.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey. 2 (2005): 447–504. When I ask my executive students this question, most of them answer in the fours and fives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A number of techniques and process-improvement tools from inside and outside the industry have been brought to bear: lean engineering to simplify and standardize care, Crew Resource Management to improve teamwork, checklists to help teams focus and improve reliability, and so on. We use these measures help us focus our improvement efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? The goals, a set of 17 stretch goals and 169 related targets championed by the United Nations, are ambitious. ” Incrementalism has its uses, but it is worrying to see even committed business leaders treating the goals as an incremental change agenda.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

BP provides a devastating example of what can happen when this isn’t the case. Shared goals and clearly defined roles provide the foundation upon which cooperation and coordination can be built. At J&J it may go back to 2005 when employees reported a lack of alignment between manager behavior and company values and policies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2012

NBA commissioner David Stern chose Colangelo in 2005 to change the culture of the Team USA basketball organization, which meant creating a cohesive, winning team out of a group of egotistical, strong-willed, and free-wheeling players. I asked Colangelo about the selection process and how he separated the good from the potentially great.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Within CMS, Deputy CIO for IT Henry Chao’s group emails employed all caps and direct finger pointing, like this one dated 9/26 : “I need Monique to get this in sync…ironed out now — I DO NOT WANT A REPEAT OF WHAT HAPPENED NEAR THE END OF DECEMBER 2005 WHERE MEDICARE.GOV HAD A MELTDOWN (THIS IS TO GET YOUR ATTENTION IF I DIDN’T HAVE IT ALREADY).”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Outcomes define the goal of the organization and set direction for its differentiation. Few health care organizations have made it their explicit goal to deliver excellent outcomes. In 2005, when Prof. Unfortunately, most quality measurement has focused narrowly on complying with evidenced-based processes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In a study of nearly 250 manufacturers over a 10-year period (2005–2015), we found that 78% of firms had improved their ability to fill their total actual market demand but had lost control over costs. And such flexibility can provide a distinct competitive advantage — as long as costs aren’t spiraling out of control.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Here are two different examples of organizations designed for speed, at least in one part of their business. These experts are highly briefed on the purpose and goals of the SU organization. Model #2 is an example of that. Sometimes lost in that process was the expertise that previously came from experienced in-house employees.

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