In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? Your bookshelf: Are they all leadership books? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To

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Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Restructuring 209

The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

There’s plenty of company, and the road appears to be going uphill in the right direction. But when they pause to look around, they find themselves in the company of high performers. Too many of these initiatives have a limited scope and are disconnected from daily operations. It’s broad and well-used.

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Root Cause Analysis Mission Statement Travel Restructuring 52

HR Digest

MAY 23, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a great wake-up call for companies and their ability to manage change in the workplace. Organizational change management is about bringing changes in a company’s management style by first identifying problems (or potential ones) and then implementing suitable changes. Change Management at Work.

Management 94

Management How To Uncertainty Retail 94

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As downsizing, restructuring and delayering took hold in the late 1980’s, old ladders became largely inaccessible. Individual aspirations and company needs were evolving. There were paths and ladders. The hierarchy worked – for some. Some rungs disappeared. The space between others became leaps.

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Restructuring Career Human Resources Globalization 173

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

These organizations are generally outside in the USA, yet some European and Asian companies are also adopting the trend. A PricewaterhouseCoopers study shows that an ever-increasing number of companies are starting to see the benefits of AI in supporting workforce management. Performance Management.

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How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

million companies are set up annually in the USA, failure rates still hang around 90%. Identify what could have gone wrong with the leadership team. It involves reassessing your business operations, starting with leadership. Focus on a facelift for all company digital platforms. Invest in your support team.

Finance 83

Finance Long-term Banking Restructuring 83

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

She told me that she spent about 80% of her time involved in employee behavior issues which left little time for her to focus on the basic needs of the company. As leaders, we should be allowing the best of employee behaviors to drive the culture and operations, and not allowing negative behaviors to drag things down.

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Succession Restructuring Training System 150

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This was the situation the leaders of Southern New England Telephone Company (SNET) faced in 1994 when Connecticut deregulated the local market. It involved restructuring into wholesale and retail operations and providing an array of new retail services. . Why did they find themselves in this difficult situation?

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Process Telecommunications Tips Productivity 199

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

The reader is led to believe that if they apply the principles contained in the book to their business, that the results will mirror those of the companies examined in the book, and that their business will in turn make the leap from good to great and enjoy sustaining good fortune. This is simply not true.

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Collins Leadership Styles Books Restructuring 325

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. It is the world’s first company to incorporate neurodiverse talents into its workforce. How did you approach this unique task?

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Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

Heinz Company who erected a factory in Leamington in 1908. Heinz, like so many other multinationals gave the stereotypical corporate rationale — they said the plant was unprofitable and part of a global restructuring. Leamington, a little town in the province of Ontario is the tomato capital of Canada. Then Along Came French’s.

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Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2020

As such, now is the time to process an extensive remote workplace plan by companies and organizations and see that workplace compliances laws are met. Within the past three weeks with Coronavirus creating havoc around the globe, companies have switched to restructuring workplaces, with their emphasis on remote work.

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Compliance Restructuring Environment Travel 64

LDRLB

JUNE 23, 2010

The underlying assumption of TOC is that organizations can be controlled by variations on three measures: throughput, operating expense, and inventory. Operating expense is all the money the system spends in order to turn inventory into throughput. Leadership evidence-based management goldratt'

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Constraint Goldratt Restructuring System 74

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The financial situation for Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Company could not have been more dismal in 1998. The company had chalked up losses in seven of the past eight years, and it was now paying a billion dollars annually just to service its $19-billion debt. Renault agreed to infuse $5.4

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Employees are wondering, “If the company is willing to dump me at its convenience, why shouldn’t I dump the company at my convenience?”

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

How healthy is your company’s culture? Your company has a culture whether you make the effort to shape it or not, and as you might expect, it’s better to make the effort to create the culture that will lead you to success than to simply hope a great corporate culture will organically generate itself. Commitment Culture.

Succession 50

Succession Teamwork Restructuring Commitment 50

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Leadership. by John • February 5, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. There may be improved stock market confidence in some of the companies that produce the world’s best-known brands, but a fundamental flaw exists in the management process that is supposed to renew brand health.

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Magazine Brand Article Marketing 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Big companies starting businesses from scratch has become a big deal. In many cases, these volatile big bets create bigger movements, up and down, in the stock price of a company than its (more stable) core business. To date, few companies have mastered this skill. One might even say that an increasing advantage of the U.S.

Company 11

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere. But markets and tastes shift, and changing assets and company processes is hard. These questions that doesn’t get asked enough.

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Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. Should you replace your executives with leaders from internet companies? Companies that rapidly adapt to digital business models don’t just “do digital”; they “act digital.”

CEO 8

CEO Metrics Leadership Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. This kind of approach to special challenges that companies face is new. When Lee Iacocca became CEO of Chrysler, here’s what he found: “Chrysler didn’t really function like a company at all.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

There is a straightforward relationship between input and output: Those who put in the hours are handsomely rewarded, and progress can be neatly tracked through the kind of upward-sloping curves that companies and executives can only dream of. When he was brought in as CEO in August 2014, the company wasn’t in great shape.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. A major catalyst for this shift has been private equity firms, which take companies private and incorporate them into their own portfolios. Three Phases in the Evolution of Private Equity Investment.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. senators, and headed worldwide communications at Campbell Soup Company. Being Change-friendly operates from a platform of respect and caring, not intimidation and contention. Change-friendly is also about leadership.

Hotels 124

Hotels Stress Resistance Restructuring 124

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Although good at scaling and operating a sales organization, the leader was unable to succeed in a rapidly changing environment that needed experimentation and nimbleness. A medical device company hired a vice president of sales with an intimidating management style. He had extensive market knowledge and a stellar track record.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Health Care Self-aware Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It's not an uncommon scenario , particularly in companies with strong succession plans. Here's an example*: Peter was the divisional CFO for the consumer unit of a global products company. As members of the senior leadership team, these three managers worked well together on business issues although they were not personal friends.

Management 12

Management Restructuring CFO Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

One of the wonderful things about being a coach is that I meet hundreds of executives who freely share their business and leadership challenges with me. From what I can gather, much of this has been "on the hoof," with companies switching their focus from markets to products or competitors, rather than looking at the big picture.

Restructuring 15

Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care.

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TSR Banking Committee Incentives 9

Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

She’s the Founder of award-winning talent mobility software company Topia. To help more workers thrive, and to make organizations more agile and efficient, we must understand these changes as they are occurring and redesign both business operating systems and our contract for work in America. This is the Talent Mobility Revolution.

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Trends Policies Career Real Estate 102

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2011

Many love to boast when their revenues soar, or publicize the strategic restructuring of their organizational response committees (whatever that means). But often missing from a firm's communications is something absolutely fundamental to its operations: its values. Establish core values across the company, not just within management.

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Mission Statement Restructuring Committee Ethics 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

They are finding creative — and in many cases disruptive — ways to tackle some of society's toughest problems and create long-term value for their companies as well. Dawn Baker at Dow is revamping leadership development offerings to ensure they mesh with their company's sustainability objectives.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 8, 2013

A recent global workforce study by Towers Watson suggests that although traditional employee engagement strategies help foster high performance, companies must now also consider how to sustain higher levels of employee engagement over time to avoid a diminishing impact. Frankly, those should be the givens in every organization.

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Strategy Development Restructuring Learning-by-Doing 279