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How to Not Screw Up Your Brand Even When You’ve Been Screwed Over

Let's Grow Leaders

How you respond during times of distress can make or break your leadership brand If you’ve Googled, “what to do when you’ve been screwed over at work” and landed here, I’m sorry. Organizational restructuring, change in direction, and company politics can easily derail a well-meaning leader’s intentions.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. Like many giants, Kraft has thrived by doing more with less , thanks to several acquisitions and the ensuing power of clout. The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. This journey isn’t an easy one.

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Is it About Time: Tips and Techniques to Mind Your Busyness

The Practical Leader

Down the hall, Brian’s boss was meeting with the HR director to review staffing for new roles and projects emerging from the recent organizational restructuring. Before you start, develop categories such as reading, learning, meetings, family time, relaxation, travel, telephone calls, visiting, preparing, planning, etc.

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“Value” and “Waste” – Watch Them Constantly

QAspire

To deliver higher value to customers, business leaders implement complex strategies, restructure the organization periodically, lay out new initiatives, improve upon they existing processes, focus on sales, training, people etc. It is all a value game, I agree, and focusing on value delivery is at the core of any business. Don’t Kill It!

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The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy Versus Process

QAspire

a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). I have said this before – any organization that aims to deliver high performance consistently cannot ignore the power of process. Periodically, they overhaul their structure, add new positions and assign new/diverse responsibilities to people.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

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. Leaders used to have all the power in these hierarchical relationships, but this is no longer the reality facing many organizations.

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What CEOs Get Wrong About Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. Activists are not very powerful on their own. But even when activists seem powerful, in fact they have only a few weapons. Word travels fast among shareholders.

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