Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Too often, when innovation processes fall short, top managers make the impulsive diagnosis that it’s because their people are simply unwilling to change. This assumption is pervasive: A recent study revealed that 76 percent of managers believed their organizations didn’t have the capabilities needed to move into the future.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

As you might suspect, Sam Walsh is a widely recognised name within the mining industry. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. What few may appreciate is Sam’s love for classical music, ballet and opera, art, antiques.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

There have been no signs of industry-wide moves to start hiring outside of the U.S. The individuals manage the critical functioning of a majority of Google’s services, which makes it all the more unexpected to see the company choose to let them go. Google currently has 180,895 employees according to their filings with the SEC.

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Trends Decentralization CFO Bureaucracy 59

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As downsizing, restructuring and delayering took hold in the late 1980’s, old ladders became largely inaccessible. Every industry is changing. Someone who wants to manage others can still get there. Managing others is not for everyone. Careers used to be predictable. There were paths and ladders. Some rungs disappeared.

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Restructuring Career Human Resources Globalization 173

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

From ensuring DEI initiatives in the workplace to helping the rest of the workforce with change management to keep up with the changing times, the presence of a Human Resources team is essential for the entire organization to thrive. Job cuts and reorganization aren’t the only aspects of the need for change management either.

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Trends Efficiency Learning-by-Doing Tools 109

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Fortify Development. Although most small towns want to remain small, which is the bulk of their charm, as time goes on there needs to be some kind of development. It’s in small towns’ best interests to develop a plan where new industries can set up shop. Industries will want to build offices or factories creating jobs.

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Strategy Restructuring Class Incentives 107

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

industries and it emphasizes the importance of the retention process in HR. The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. While it can feel like a localized issue, such market changes are just as possible in U.S.

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Process Attrition Trends Training 59

The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

Client satisfaction was high, and the firm won awards from industry peer groups for the professionalism and effectiveness of their services. Assessment and feedback from the leadership team and managers and staff showed vast differences. Managers and supervisors are held accountable and rewarded for their contributions to the efforts.

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Commitment Teamwork Restructuring Morale 69

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

The findings emerged from a study of the automotive industry in nine developed countries, which collectively underwent 205 collective layoffs from 20 major brands over a 15 year period. It’s likely that the merit of the firm’s prior actions will be called into question, however, as will their future prospects.

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Advertising Automotive Restructuring Price 95

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

When data is sufficiently large, it is utilized to train algorithms that predict talents and capabilities; screen performance; set and survey work outputs; link workforce to various state of emotions; provide training and development; search for patterns across various teams; and more. How does AI become key to this dynamic? People Analytics.

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How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

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Decentralization Construction Restructuring Tools 119

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 25, 2020

It’s a discrepancy that has been tackled head on by Invest NI, a regional development agency in the country. Women are only deemed successful if they launch businesses in the ‘right’ (male-dominated) industries and match male-owned businesses for growth. ” Better support. ”

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2021

For example, did the tax laws change for your industry, or did you upgrade your personal reporting requirements? Consider whether the leadership of your office changed or was restructured, and note any grants or loans you received. Where did you succeed, and where did you fall short of your industry’s requirements?

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. If you keep moving up you can triple that as a General Manager. Decent career path to management or senior tech. If you work hard enough and own your own dealership you can rake it in without doing much anymore.

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Career Real Estate Engineering Education 192

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. At SAP, we develop, sell and run people software solutions that help us do so. We need to revolutionize.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Given the massive changes happening in their industry, I used the recently updated five minute video Shift Happens: Did You Know? We went on to discuss the biggest changes they’re seeing in their industry externally and what internal organizational changes are needed. Sales Training/New Business Development.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. It had more than recovered to now outperform its industry in Japan, China, Europe, and even North America. Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound.

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Restructure training. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop increased in-service education. Supervision belongs to the system and is the responsibility of the management. Improve supervision.

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Deming Health Care Restructuring Crisis 28

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Making the right investments in learning and development programs has never been more important – or more of a challenge – for business leaders. billion dollars on learning and development programs, many executives still grapple with how to improve and enhance their effectiveness.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

We’ve established a strong correlation between coherence, as we define it, and superior performance over time in a number of industries. Those companies that focus on building a system of three to six best-in-class, interlocking capabilities that support their way to play achieve a right to win in their industries. SD : Why now?

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In the end, whatever your industry and whatever your enterprise’s size, scaling up your distinctive capabilities is one of the most difficult and yet essential things you can do. We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The logic sounds compelling: A customer-centric structure , as the approach is known, can help a company understand its customers better, develop deeper relationships with them, and improve customer satisfaction. managers , he said the proportion of U.S. Low industry profitability. In his 2006 survey of U.S.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

If you are a newly promoted manager who feels the pressure to have all the answers expected of you from day one, don’t despair. You will inevitably face challenges that are hard to define, let alone to solve – even after years of management experience. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing People. You are not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US.

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Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. After all, IBM came back from the dead in the 1990s. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

ORLY: Talent wars are everywhere in every industry in every region. Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?”

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Drone-mounted sensors can be used to capture an impressive array of data, paving the way for increased digitalization of industrial processes. Leaders across a spectrum of industries are already availing themselves of drone-based data. Other industries are being persuaded by the cost and safety benefits of drone-based data as well.

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Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

According to the International Labour Organization, workers in developed and developing countries are facing increasing strain at work. Managing stress over the long term requires cultivating your own resilience skills before seeking external solutions so that you can turn changes, stresses, and challenges into opportunities.

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Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2014

Since revenue per employee varies widely among industries, we confined our comparisons to companies in the same business. Predictably, the differences were larger in people-intensive businesses, like software development, and smaller in capital-intensive industries such as semiconductor manufacturing. Take a look around you.

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Human Capital Restructuring Committee Comparison 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. As part of their change story, they developed a unifying internal communications campaign called the “Nature of Next” that articulated the reasoning and vision for the acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. Done well, it can improve a company’s sustainability in addition to its performance. SASB uses the U.S.

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Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

asks an executive at a large industrial products company. This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

asks an executive at a large industrial products company. This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 11