Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. In order to keep your team motivated in the midst of what can be challenging changes, there are a few things organization leaders can keep in mind to keep their teams interested and engaged: 1.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

Was the layoff motivated by a fall in demand? “An alternative response could be to increase advertising spending to compensate for the decreased effectiveness and to consider such higher ad spending in the layoff country as a restructuring cost.” How many employees were affected by the layoff?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

It’s difficult to keep volunteers motivated and engaged or showing up. We are bringing in new talent with experience in developing programs, marketing, and engagement. Restructuring our organizational foundation has been a journey of sweat and examination. Everyone involved serves in a volunteer capacity including our director.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

It’s typically executed with pushing rather than pulling through manipulation and bribery to “motivate” higher performance. Fad surfing in the C-suite often leads to dunking trainees in the training tank , slogans, improvement projects, marketing campaigns, motivational programs, educational fix-them efforts, etc.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

That’s not good news for the job market when workers cannot vouch for the long-term business survival of the establishments they work for. With this statistic at the back of your mind, one essential step to take is to restructure your company’s money management procedures. Re-examine existing marketing activities.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. This strategy should inspire creativity, evoke an emotional connection to the mission and motivate the team to work hard together. How will you achieve that goal?

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

The interesting findings that we have are that motivation can be very much pushed forward, or actually hindered by the kinds of arrangements that we initially create within a firm. They’re less motivated. How are some of the best companies restructuring themselves to make use of this interesting finding?

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

He had inherited a thriving soft drink bottling business from his father, and by marketing it to South America he grew the company significantly. He introduced me to a company that was opening up a new market in Atlanta. When the recession of 2001 hit, I had to restructure my business. It made him feel young again.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

They said that it might be possible to go to the FDA, add warnings to the label, and keep Vioxx on the market, but they believed that the most responsible course of action in the interests of the patient was to voluntarily withdraw the drug. We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs. billion in revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

At an offsite, she challenged her team to identify what it would take to grow revenues — be it taking market share from competitors, meeting unmet customer needs, or some other undiscovered direction. In parallel, a sub-team is now looking at possible layoffs and restructuring options in case the growth ideas don't bear fruit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

While the restructuring certainly helped GM return to profitability (its annual net income averaged $6.7 billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. Taxpayers and workers should demand that open-market repurchases by all companies be banned. million vehicles in 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

That may be why so many people delay putting themselves on the job market even when they know they should act. So he remained at the company — and the next time there was a restructuring, he was laid off. This approach can re-motivate you even if you can't leave your current situation.

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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. a clear external motivation to do something. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The stock market is short-term-oriented. Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation. The market favorably receives projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

But Telsa is starting from the top of a market, selling high-end vehicles at high prices. To scale, Tesla will eventually have to grow down market but there are real impediments to doing so. There are three internal barriers to “growing down the market” that are akin to sailing against the wind.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In addition to the usual metrics — return on investment, growth in market share, increases in shareholder value — Johansson uses what he calls the "kitchen table test": At breakfast with his family on Saturday mornings, he asks himself, How easy is it to explain what I have accomplished this week and the decisions I have made?

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

This initial lack of commercial players and interests was critical — it allowed the formation of a network architecture that shared resources in a way that would not have occurred in a market-driven system. The “killer app” for the early internet was email; it’s what drove adoption and strengthened the network.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I’ve been a consultant for over 20 years now, focused on helping international clients in areas of business and market strategy, positioning and market launches. Mike Myatt: Today is the launch day of your new book Defying Gravity, what motivated you to write the book and what do you hope to accomplish with it?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A successful leadership transition depends on substantial cognitive restructuring. What motivates someone to transition from individual contributor to management? This transition can be stressful, but a structured and evidence-based process can help new managers both acquire new skills and let go of old habits. Meaning structures.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Understand what’s motivating you. Before you breathe a word about your idea to a colleague, you must “think through your motives,” advises Butman. “You need to be able to express your motives” in a way that’s relatable and compelling to others, says Butman. And what do I hope to accomplish?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

The trend toward globally connected markets will become stronger. Future leaders will have to learn how to manage global production, marketing, and sales teams to achieve competitive advantage. The ability to motivate people in different cultures will become increasingly important. Thinking globally.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. Self-managed and self-organizing systems are meant to make a company more flexible in ever-shifting markets. But Stayer wasn’t happy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

According to my current research at Harvard on innovation models in global companies across diverse sectors, these types of projects fail between 70% and 90% of the time.This should be a deeply troubling, motivating statistic. The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. A Different Approach.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Although an overlay is less disruptive than restructuring the organization of care, it adds cost and essentially treats the symptom of faulty organization rather than the cause. As a result, progress in truly restructuring health care delivery has been stymied.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance. Take Motorola, for instance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

But tech is disrupting even this newly restructured industry, as automobiles become computers on wheels. It has been going on for decades, led by the American multinational companies that first conquered foreign markets in the 1950s and 1960s. Who owns whose assets. The global remix is not new at all.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares. MSCI’s recent analysis shows that unequal voting stocks outperformed the market over the period from November 2007 to August 2017. and The New York Times Co.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

But let’s think about Google’s move from a strategic perspective: What does the creation of Alphabet tell us about the company’s strategic motives? There were also branding benefits to the change, as Kevin Lane Keller explained in another article.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Improving value can only happen when providers align the focus of their clinical teams and their market strategy on achieving excellent outcomes, and in turn invest the resources to measure and report them. Data that exposes poor performance in particular can be a strong motivator to join together to improve. In 2005, when Prof.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Also around this time, the dot-com era had attracted talent out of the traditional enterprise and exacerbated productivity problems by leaving less motivated staff behind. That culture is less product-focused, more service-focused, and hence more customer-focused. 2007-2010 is not surprisingly dominated by negatives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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