Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

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. The following is an example that proves this. Unfortunately this type of workforce dynamic happens far more often that it should.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017. 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.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Mike Myatt: What’s been most rewarding to you in your work in the leadership field? Without integrity – there is no leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. When and how are the best ways to do it?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Leadership is changing — fast. Here’s an example to put this into context. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. What’s unique about this company’s leadership?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle. While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. Creating a leadership circle is a step toward addressing these shortfalls.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Consider two examples. 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 tyrant, for example, may fix some things in the short term but create other problems at the same time.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

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. When Sarah left, Operations also was reconfigured.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Those companies that ‘sweat’ their capabilities continuously improve them and sustainably capture the top-line growth in their industries and, ultimately, market leadership. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. Second, a coherent system focuses strategic investment on what matters.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. Only about 7% to 8% of companies retain the strengths of the founder’s mentality as they grow to industry leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

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. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Should soft measures be part of a CEO’s scorecard?

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

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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. Design "integration mechanisms" and operate them with rigor. Execution Leadership Strategy' Now one Microsoft. Collaboration must be in their blood.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Typically a graphic depiction of the organizational components to be addressed in a redesign (for example, McKinsey’s 7S model, which includes strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, and so on), every consultant and his brother flogs an organization design model. As a result, organization design is no longer just a big bang event.

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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. For example, the new strategy might have included a core technology that still makes sense, but the timetable for deploying it might need to change. Regroup, but with flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful. Automated systems are usually very bad at recognizing context.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In the popular mind, there’s a lot of luck and inspired leadership behind successful choices like Southwest’s. The leadership teams at AOL and Time Warner were hardly boneheaded. One example is the corporate reorganization. Many preside over multiple restructurings. But if you look closely, that really isn’t true.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Job personalization is best applied when there are clear inflection points: when career trajectories are stalled, during corporate restructuring, or in recruiting for open positions. For example, my colleague Silvia, who works in public relations, often goes out of her way to welcome and mentor new colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The changes in healthcare – consolidation, restructuring, regulation, spending pressures – that are necessitating a transformation at Philips Healthcare are a subset of a series of powerful forces in the business world that have catapulted marketing from an often-isolated support function to a critical capability for driving above-average growth.

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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. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Some have decades of experience in their industry. Some are recent graduates.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

IRS Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998); and an outstanding, senior executive from the private sector, Charles Rossotti , was appointed for a five-year term to drive the changes. Under Rossotti's guidance, the IRS reorganized from a geographic structure to four new customer-oriented operating divisions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

to the revolution in Libya, from the continuing economic upheaval to Steve Jobs announcing his resignation as CEO of Apple and to HP restructuring their business, and from earthquakes to hurricanes and floods, each event is yet another chink in our sense of stability and control of the environment around us. From News Corp.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

In contrast to “transformational” and “authentic” leadership, which has been criticized for being fuzzy and wishy-washy , “fitness leadership,” as we refer to it, offers a more concrete approach. During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. For example, index funds sometimes side with activists, but sometimes reject their demands.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

When interviewed, TEKCO executives had difficulty identifying examples of tangible benefits their company obtained from social media. Even operational efficiency was unaffected. These podcasts are sent as "thank you" gifts to top performers and convey that senior leadership cares about consultants' personal development.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

developing the business plan and go-to-market strategy that has enabled us to maintain 100% ownership, operate part-time, grow it slowly over 20 years, and win Sam Adams’s 2016 “Brewing and Business Experienceship” year-long mentorship prize. R ésumé example #2. R ésumé example #3.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

As human beings, we like to operate in small tribes. That’s the fundamental problem that prompted Microsoft to announce its big restructuring last summer — it recognized it had too many separate divisions. One example is that I really hate errors in stories, particularly in the kinds of feature stories we produced. Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The key idea of both is that management should be viewed as a mechanism — an “operating system” in holacracy — for distributing power and leadership throughout the organization. This example demonstrates that each staff member has a powerful voice, with the circular hierarchy processing ideas and proposals.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In the examples below, Cisco, Pfizer, and Symantec are our clients.). Similar employee crowdsourcing efforts have been used to redefine company values (at IBM) and generate ideas for cutting operational costs (at BASF). When Pfizer undertook a major restructuring in 2007, they turned to ten employees to tell their stories.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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