Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Transformation processes demand risk taking, the development of new staff capabilities and a strong focus on innovation. Grundfos, the Danish water pump manufacturer, is among the legacy organizations that have intentionally restructured their rewards systems to boost innovation. Assessing your organizational immune system.

System 161

System Innovation Restructuring Short-term 161

HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. Layoff due to restructuring. Sincerely, Grace OPTION 2: LAYOFF DUE TO RESTRUCTING A sample layoff email to communicate a restructuring layoff with empathy and clarity. Layoff due to economic downturn.

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Letter Politics Restructuring Sample 98

The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

Recently I was asked to facilitate an executive retreat for the leadership team of a professional services firm. Assessment and feedback from the leadership team and managers and staff showed vast differences. With everyone working from home, the firm came through the pandemic with strong financial results.

Commitment 69

Commitment Teamwork Restructuring Morale 69

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

What sorts of “insight” are expected from technologies? A new IBM report shows that half of CHROs identified for the study recognize the possibilities for innovation in HR operations and the acquisition and development of talent. How does AI become key to this dynamic? What risks do employees face in the modern workplace?

How To 111

How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring.

Human Resources 183

Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. The company may also partner with other autonomous developers to encourage unique capabilities. For other Titan project employees that the restructuring had not affected, they are at Apple.

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Project Restructuring Automotive System 40

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Technology trends. The message is clear: Leadership matters most. The results were telling.

Altman 76

Altman Decentralization COO Restructuring 76

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017. We needed to shift faster to public cloud and new technologies such as IoT, machine learning, SAP Cloud Platform and advanced analytics. At SAP, we develop, sell and run people software solutions that help us do so.

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Last week I ran a highly customized Peak Performance Leadership workshop and facilitated a strategy session in beautiful Colorado Springs. In their case, the biggest internal changes they identified were: Leadership/Culture Development. Sales Training/New Business Development. New Technology. Customer Service.

Video 56

Video Restructuring Brainstorming Morale 56

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). The edition features my post “ Setting Expectations on Behaviors You Value: 5 Pointers ” along with other excellent thoughts on HR, OD and Leadership. Tuning hierarchy and structure of the organization for better outcomes is just one part.

Process 128

Process Deming Restructuring Efficiency 128

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Now DC workers are seeing a change in leadership across different agencies which may mean a new boss along with new systems and priorities. Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. Leadership and Change It was a planned change.

Press Release 100

Press Release Motivation Discount PR 100

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

New technology all the time. Allows you to focus on different aspects of organizations – restructuring, selection, retention, leadership development, etc. Satellite / Cable guy/gal) – You’re out on your own, virtually unsupervised after training. See different sites every day.

Career 191

Career Real Estate Engineering Education 191

The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve just completed a two-day retreat with a fast-growing leadership team. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. But little time is often invested in developing ongoing improvement plans, habits, or approaches. ” The leadership team I just worked with had a productive two-days together.

Teamwork 104

Teamwork Restructuring Project Micromanagement 104

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. Provide flexible learning options.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

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.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

Leadership 13

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

My recent paper , coauthored with Naoshi Ikeda and Sho Watanabe of Tokyo Institute of Technology, empirically tests this quiet life hypothesis with Japanese data. Nissan rearranged business relations with them under the strong leadership of Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissan from 1999 to 2017.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, one of us built a curation process to help technology solutions to be deployed rapidly. As the head of the U.S.

Process 15

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. To be sure, robots will help people develop these types of skills, but a person – preferably you – will possess them.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2019

Countries around the world are faced with considerable skills, productivity and social inclusion challenges that require novel and innovative approaches to skills development. “Skills provision was reformed to be much more market-oriented and aligned with the city’s economic development strategy, ” the authors explain.

Skills 84

Skills Innovation Education Restructuring 84

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

Resources 53

Resources Industry System Strategy 53

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. But how your leadership reacts to change will trickle down and impact your managers, who then impact your employees and their engagement. Alan Copson/Getty Images.

Resistance 15

Resistance Commitment Uncertainty Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. Executives mobilized experts to develop internal applications that mirrored the functionality of Facebook and Twitter, and built a platform that allowed for the creation of internal wiki pages.

Media 17

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

” This feedback helped Oka, an industry outsider, convince President Kazuo Ushida, a 40-year veteran of Nikon’s technology businesses, that the company needed to revisit its dialogue with investors. Not until the restructuring was completed would Nikon pursue a growth agenda.

Company 10

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Thriving companies are also integrating related products and services into sophisticated industry solutions, while extending and restructuring industry boundaries, essentially creating whole new industries.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

workers and unemployed citizens tells the story: The majority of workers surveyed (55%) report that they are under pressure to develop additional skills to succeed in their current and future jobs. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. An Accenture survey of 1,088 U.S.

Skills 15

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands.

Globalization 12

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Jobs was so impressed that he took his entire programming team on a tour of PARC and returned to Apple hell-bent on developing a personal computer that both incorporated and improved upon the technologies he and his team saw. Within ten minutes, it was so obvious that every computer would work this way someday."

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

From demographics to technology, the economy is changing dramatically and so is the way we work. Policy makers must ensure that with this much more fluid work that workers are supported with good pay, good benefits, collective bargaining rights and continued skills development regardless of the construct in which they are working.

Trends 105

Trends Policies Career Real Estate 105

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There is a palpable sense of systemic instability in the face of political, economic, technological, social, and indeed meteorological uncertainty. They are infrastructure, technology, internationalization, communication, and the balance of continuity and change. 2) Technology. From News Corp. 1) Infrastructure.

Uncertainty 15

Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

The solution is to show some humility and to consider restructuring things so that your actions have some checks and balances. To do that, you may need to develop a hybrid approach that mixes the new, adjusted strategy with some older practices. Regroup, but with flexibility. Communicate to stop the contagion.

Strategy 15

Strategy Metrics Restructuring Finance 15

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

In our study of leadership characteristics, we found both consistent themes and emerging trends. Many qualities of effective leadership – characteristics such as communicating vision, demonstrating integrity, focusing on results, and ensuring customer satisfaction – will never change. Demonstrating technological savvy.

Competitive Advantage 140

Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. P&G''s board has been under a great deal of pressure from an activist investor who has made his views on the pace of the restructuring clear and vocal.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’”

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Once upon a time, “organization design” meant bringing in a slew of consultants to oversee a large-scale organizational restructuring, most often intended to take out big chunks of cost during an economic downturn. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8