ReImagine Work

JUNE 9, 2016

He said, “Don’t you think we’re going to have another restructuring, if you read between the lines?” appeared first on Mary Schaefer, empowerment authority, speaker, coach & trainer for those in engineering, scientific & IT-related positions. An employee walked into my office. I had not seen it yet so I read through it.

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Motivation Restructuring Long-term CEO 100

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

Heinz, like so many other multinationals gave the stereotypical corporate rationale — they said the plant was unprofitable and part of a global restructuring. Taking a lesson from the signature phrase in the illustrated children’s book, The Little Engine That Could , the Leamington community did not throw in the towel.

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Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

You would think that an Ivy League institution like Cornell University would be a model of the best practices of leadership throughout its organization since Cornell and most universities believe they are growing the next generation of leaders for our country and our world. not necessarily and not always. That got everyone’s attention!

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later. Fifteen years later, Nissan under Ghosn’s strategy and leadership was indeed back on its feet. Nissan’s experience reminds us that firms with good strategy but weak leadership can remain rudderless.

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Be aware, however, that constant re-engineering, reorganization, and restructuring in pursuit of efficiency (or the latest management fad) has a questionable effect at best. Adjusting in order to thrive, however, requires competent leadership and commitment to creating the best possible corporate culture. About the Author.

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Succession Teamwork Restructuring Commitment 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This prioritization process has to start before any new idea reaches engineering. This way, the innovations that do reach engineering will already have substantial evidence — about validated customer needs, processes, legal security, and integration issues.

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Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. Change-friendly is also about leadership. Why settle for less?

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Hotels Stress Resistance Restructuring 125

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

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. Another CEO declared that “Leadership is a contact sport.” The reality is that the two don’t necessarily go together.

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Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

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. Another CEO declared that “Leadership is a contact sport.” The reality is that the two don’t necessarily go together.

Workshop 13

Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 13

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. The anomaly was the result of historical turf wars between his boss and his boss' peer: the latter had used his influence to restructure the department and bring it under his control.

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Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Restructurings may be an inevitable part of organizational life but living through them—even when you’re one of the lucky ones still standing—is challenging and stressful. How can you make the situation easier for yourself and your colleagues? What steps should you take to protect your job? How do you stay positive?

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Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 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.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Jobs assembled a team of brilliant engineers, gave them the needed resources, and infused the Macintosh team with a vision of what was possible. When Jobs returned and restructured his senior management team with more discovery-driven capacity, Apple's innovation engine ignited again. That's what an innovative leader does.

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Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. Apple's innovative future hinges on these critical senior-leadership skills. This is not the first time, of course, that Jobs has left the helm at Apple. Can Cook do this?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Some are recent graduates.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

In what was clearly a “Hail Mary” pass, Elop engineered a tie-up with Microsoft that never really worked out, eventually setting the stage for the sale of the company’s entire handset business. I used a hand-drawn picture of what the model for their business would look like.

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Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

That’s the fundamental problem that prompted Microsoft to announce its big restructuring last summer — it recognized it had too many separate divisions. I tend to think of organizations as eight-cylinder engines, and in every organization you ask: “How many cylinders are actually firing?” Leadership'

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CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

medical-device maker, a planned new heart defibrillator had to be scrapped after five years of expensive effort because the company's quality engineers did not meet federal requirements — due to their inadequate knowledge and skills. For instance, at one U.S. Have you ever started a club? What Internet mailing lists do you subscribe to?

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Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Imagine that you’re on a tight schedule driving an 18 wheeler and your engine light comes on when you’re 100 miles from the nearest service station. Organizational leadership. Dieter Haban, CIO of Daimler Trucks North America, offers Daimler Trucks’s Detroit Virtual Technician as a good example. What to do?

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. Leadership Marketing'

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Many tech companies have innovation- and engineering-driven cultures typical of nimble, improvisatory start-ups. Visionaries, risk-takers and engineering geniuses may fit better with moonshot companies, and disciplined doers, optimizers and commercial types for their more mature businesses for example. Three main things.

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Strategy Maturity Business Model Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The two approaches share a set of key principles and practices, with the main differences arising from jargon: Sociocracy, developed in the 1970s, was based on principles of cybernetics ; holacracy represents a repackaging of the principles in the vocabulary of software engineering.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled a restructuring designed to unite the organization behind a single strategy and create high-value experiences for their customers. Execution Leadership Strategy' Now one Microsoft. Many more organizational structure changes are likely to come.

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P&L Decentralization COO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

To achieve this target, however, China will need to find new engines of growth, such as consumption, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all of which are emphasized in the plan. Equally importantly, and more subtly, it creates a diversity of strategic environments which require very different approaches to strategy and execution.

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