Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2015

We live in a time flush with high efficiency, cost control, and lean operations. Bar coded packaging today drives inventory control, P&L calculations, and all manner of financial management processes. We seem to be getting longer on high tech; shorter on high touch. Granted, profit making is vital for survival. The customer.

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P&L Customer Intimacy Price Retail 150

The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Your company is growing and has gained recognition and success. To something greater than your role and your company. In today’s ever increasing complexity and change, you are being called to operate at a new level of consciousness. What Is a Leadership Awakener? Leadership Awakeners are the Game Changers of the World.

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P&L Strategic Planning Game Theory Mission Statement 100

HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

Amidst the complexities of leadership challenges, the unique insights contributed by Anthony Horton, Stephanie Neal, and Chris McCarthy add a compelling layer to the unfolding narrative. Stephanie Neal’s research underscores the importance of aligning organizational values with leadership actions.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). By Stephen R.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L. It’s often the reason behind why people choose to stay with your company over jumping ship to a competitor. As a leader, you are constantly trying to maximize the magical effort to effectiveness equation (a.k.a. efficiency).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Clinging to obsolete definitions and viewpoints have a way of perpetuating companies into downward spirals. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Each branch has its proper responsibility and should learn to interface with the others.

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P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This (pretty long) document has evolved over the years and is often cited as an example of how that company just “gets it.” I also truly appreciated some of the business practices that leadership followed that I have missed in other organizations, including ones highlighted in McCord’s book.

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

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? Who has P&L authority? Insight center. It includes accountabilities.

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. One of the patterns I see in the 360 data on leadership behaviors is that peers are typically the lowest rating group for any given executive. Why is that? What’s the recovery plan?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 9

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

Successful leadership ~ The Story of a Man → May 31, 2010 · 4:14 am ↓ Jump to Comments Getting Culture Right Earlier last week, I viewed a video, a parody actually, called Office Space: Meeting The Bobs. Zappos.com is one such company. Some things to think about What kind of culture exists in your workplace?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity. Kotter and Dan S.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Companies have long struggled to generate sustained profitable growth – and few have succeeded. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. ’ The companies exist to exploit existing businesses, not to create new ones.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Asking A.G.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That isn’t easy, but the payoff is worth it: Our most recent research shows that companies with excellent marketing capabilities outperform the market with 2-3X greater revenue growth. Yet, only 30 percent of companies believe they understand their customers’ needs well enough to identify what initiatives will drive growth.

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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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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

All too often companies misunderstand the value of their cybersecurity teams and underfund their development. I observed that leaders often treat security as a liability cost — until the company experiences a security breach, after which increased support is a given. After all, hackers have P&L sheets too.

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Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

What’s the accepted standard in your company or industry? It’s important, though, to understand the norms in your company or industry. If everyone on the leadership team has an advanced degree and you don’t, it may be an uphill battle to convince them of your merits. You and Your Team Series. Learning.

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P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. From my conversations with the company, I take away four major reasons they're doing this: Behavior change. Sales/Becoming the Vendor of Choice.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Many of the successful managers and professionals who come back to business school at mid-career are looking for more than honing their leadership skills. Most of the “Harrises” I meet have great and large operational networks consisting of mostly internal contacts. Many are stuck in their careers. Get visibility externally.

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Career P&L How To Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Because digitization has passed power to the consumer, pressing companies to pull together their old decentralized profit and loss fiefdoms to produce experiences consumers find compelling. The first is to get various functional silos and P&L centers sharply aligned with the specifics of customer requirements.

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P&L Decentralization COO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. These companies are notable victims of a new reality: resources are constrained and input prices are fundamentally rising. What can one say about the failure of solar company Solyndra ? business continuity").

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Manage costs — or add value?

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

"I look around and see that my male colleagues have P&L responsibility and most of us are in staff roles. But it seems every time a leadership role opens up, women are not on the slate. They can put themselves forward for leadership roles when they are qualified but have been overlooked. It would be easier, I was told.

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Education P&L Constraint Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Never before has leadership been so critical, and never before has it seemed in such short supply. It takes extraordinary leadership to keep an organization relevant in a world of relentless change. It takes extraordinary leadership to navigate the complexities of global supply chains, industry ecosystems, and labyrinthine regulation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

This trait was wonderfully illustrated by a senior vice president in a telecoms company who recounted how a regulatory ruling had just wiped several millions dollars from his bottom line. ” Second, CEOs operating in uncertain environments need to have a lot of “what if” discussions with their executives.

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How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

(Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Positioning "women" (gender in most companies is never about men) as one minority among many others obscures the issue. Every manager I have worked with hates the fact that companies talk about "Diversity and Inclusion," but then they are given targets on women (most don't even target balance). Problem 2: Setting Killer KPIs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In order to allocate funds for innovation initiatives, Atrius Health’s leaders created a new department with its own P&L. In addition, the Care in Place team met with a leader at a large insurance company that insures 45% of Atrius Health’s elder population. Establish an innovation center. Protect the work.

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