Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

A recent conversation with a community bank CEO focused on his vision for the company. With depth of affirmation around cause preceding effect, why do business leaders focus so heavily on analyzing their numbers, or, focus on the effect instead of the cause? Logic tells us we can manage cause, but only measure effect.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2016

In the global economy, each company is constantly adjusting its strategies to enable it to stay ahead of its competition. To ensure that they are accountable for the success of the company, pay for performance is instituted by most companies as approved by their stakeholders or shareholders.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2020

They rely on outdated and ineffective leadership styles that diminish the performance of the companies they lead. “We We are on the precipice of an exciting new world of work, one that gives executives an opportunity to chart a new course for what their leadership should look like, feel like, and be like,” the authors say.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

Core, transaction-driven systems within the company should be designed to create the management information needed by leadership. This management information environment must be part of future IT strategy plans to ensure its ongoing refinement and evolution. Management information should not be an afterthought.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

It’s just another well-intentioned sound bite that will destroy your company and your career if you choose to follow it. Strategy should never be dumbed down to match capability. In fact, quite the opposite – capability should always be in the process of being upgraded to keep pace with strategy.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction. Employ some leadership fundamentals. You need to practice some leadership fundamentals. You just finished reading How to Employ Leadership Fundamentals.or Confusion reigned. You're in a jam.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. In fact, research has shown that up to 50% of the resources of a typical organization are not being effectively applied to the mission and vision of the company.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

My research led me to develop the six-step process that allows companies to outsize: (Copyright Steve Coughran, Used by Permission). 3 Pitfalls that Trap Companies. What are a few of the common mistakes you see in formulating strategy? The second fault I see companies make is ignoring the numbers.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. In fact, research has shown up to 50% of the resources of a typical organization are not being effectively applied to the mission and vision of the company. It's what we describe in detail in Discipline III.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

People familiar with the matter told CNBC that the company this week laid-off workers from its stealthy autonomous vehicle group. The team, however, will focus attention on other key areas in 2019, implying that some will be deployed to other projects handled by the company. It will be about health," Tim told CNBC.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. A great example was Panhandle Converter Recycling , a company that we met with in Dothan, AL. Mazzeo : One recurring theme was about growth and scaling.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. A great example was Panhandle Converter Recycling , a company that we met with in Dothan, AL. Mazzeo : One recurring theme was about growth and scaling.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Walmart’s recent change to free two-day shipping for online orders, no membership required, is the latest in a series of moves the company has made to fight Amazon and grow its e-commerce business. For all these reasons, Prime has been described by CEO Jeff Bezos as one of the company’s three strategic pillars.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Instead, take the time to think about all of the implications and likely actions that you would want them and their people to tackle in helping the organization execute its strategies. Craft a template for them to use to deliver the message. If you can do this, you will have done your job.

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CO2

APRIL 30, 2013

Other companies, as I have witnessed, value consistency of service. In both of the cases I’ve outlined here, the organization’s culture usually dictates its strategy. When it doesn’t (when strategy isn’t shaped by culture), customers and employees tend to get thrown by the bull. So, what is your culture?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Most companies have articulated their purpose — the reason they exist. Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Skeezer/Getty Images. Consider Nokia.

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Tim Milburn

AUGUST 14, 2012

Our prescription for rapid realignment has the following steps: Align the leadership team. Align the Leadership Team. The first step toward rapid realignment is to get leadership team members aligned with The Main Thing of the enterprise and its strategy. Create an online alignment portal. © 2012 Dr. George H.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one multinational consumer goods company organized by category, while another organizes by region? Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Insight center. Who has P&L authority?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Useem has identified ten principles or capacities that will be called for to supplement traditional leadership capacities. Bring in better leadership. Reinvent the company culture. From Progressive Corporation’s Tricia Griffith , we can see the benefit of more lateral and more inclusive leadership. Partner to lead change.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Based on my work with dozens of Fortune 500 companies and other organizations, I have found that “unlearning,” although indispensable, is extremely difficult. As the system ended, the most urgent imperative for CEO Anand Mahindra was to shake the entire company out of its complacency. ” Create win-win incentives. .”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

In general, companies don’t devote enough time to thinking about value capture. And even when a company is focused tightly on financial performance, there are at least eight reasons it might have for deliberately accepting something less than the full value it could capture from an offering. Why is it that?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Many leaders of midsize companies – especially if they’re the founders – are constitutionally inclined to see new opportunities around every corner. And they love to pursue them, deadline commitments or old strategies be damned. Skouras, the company’s CEO, thought that sounded like a swell idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

I’ve been working in HR for over twenty years, and the best companies I’ve worked with have recognized that there are three elements to a culture: behaviors, systems, and practices, all guided by an overarching set of values. A place to start is by reviewing the behaviors, systems, and practices in place in your company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Strategy is how the business will achieve it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Not only do employees with disabilities comprise a large talent pool, it’s a remarkably innovative one: 75% of them report having an idea that would drive value for their company (versus 66% of employees without disabilities). But teaching managers to display inclusive leadership behaviors is just the first step.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Effective leadership, like a good marriage, hinges on how you deal with the tough stuff. Take Sarah, the head of IT at a global technology company. For example, “You seem to be suggesting that we really need to focus on elevating our gross revenue before we invest in a new IT strategy. “Let’s sit down and have a conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

While large consulting firms push expensive “war games” at the leadership level, Jessica ran cheap and quick local games based on local market dynamics. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game. Consider the example of Pratt and Whitney, a United Technology company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. First, these companies commit to an identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Most large companies have underinvested in IT for decades. Companies can no longer get away with treating IT as a commodity. These companies face a technical debt, and it''s time to pay up. Be strategic and operational.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. What did 2010 look like for you and your company? But there’s only one that really matters: Did your company effectively execute its plans and initiatives? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Companies that separate the roles of CEO and chairman and appoint strong outsiders to the latter position may have one advantage: they are more likely to benefit from strong governance. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S. Take the case of BP. operations in favor of financial performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Whereas Gerstner famously declared "the last thing IBM needs is a vision," Palmisano had a clear vision for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

Has your company inadvertently set a goal with just a 1-in-20 chance of success? But a company’s recent track record says nothing about how much its performance could or should improve; what’s needed is a useful assessment of a company’s probability of future success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture. What’s the biggest problem you see in how companies build culture? As one CEO put it to me, “Silos are what topple great companies.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. The finding is a correlation but points to a theory of causation: we believe these companies are far more adept at identifying and mitigating the risks that could undermine their achievement of business goals.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Indeed, the company eventually announced its strategy to venture massively into cloud computing. Each year, about 10% of the companies on the S&P 500 Index experience a CEO transition. Leadership is changing — fast. And this transition is much more than a new nameplate on the corner office. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Bernstein studied assembly-line performance at a company he called “Precision.” Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. It is the driver of focus and consistency.

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