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Apple Lays-Off 200 Titan Project Employees

HR Digest

The company may also partner with other autonomous developers to encourage unique capabilities. In August 2018, Apple assigned the leadership of the Titan team to Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, alongside Bob Mansfield. However, the remaining employees have been deployed to other divisions in Apple.

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A System For Rapid Realignment

Tim Milburn

Our prescription for rapid realignment has the following steps: Align the leadership team. Develop a tool to assess current alignment. 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.

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When Great Company Cultures Go to the Dark Side: 7 Signs Your Organization Is Headed in the Wrong Direction

The Empowered Buisness

I am in favor of developing a mindset and culture that focuses on positivity, as long as it is authentic. Overt aspects of culture often utilize the reasoning, intellectual parts of our brain — the dominant focus of today’s leadership teams. The same is true in the world of leadership and culture. Don’t get me wrong.

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How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. But rarely are budgets linked closely to the strategy.

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How Mature is Your Risk Management?

Harvard Business Review

At a Global 50 consumer products company, management has developed a governance structure that allows it think about risk proactively, and has aligned its risk profile and exposures more closely with its strategy. Standardize risk monitoring and reporting tools across the organization. What does maturity look like in practice?

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Principles informed by a fact-based strategy encourage impartiality, highlighting gaps, and forcing difficult choices. ” he asked. .”

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out.