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

Let's Grow Leaders

Organizational restructuring, change in direction, and company politics can easily derail a well-meaning leader’s intentions. Limit Your Venting to a Small, Trusted Circle of Advisors Your angry words will travel faster and farther than you ever thought possible. Circumstances change. Strategies evolve.

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Untimely Hasbro Layoffs Imminent After Weak Toy Sales Numbers

HR Digest

While we move closer to those numbers, there is still an adverse effect on the purchasing power of many citizens with multiple industries resorting to layoffs, and the number of people cutting down on more frivolous expenses such as toys keeps increasing. Travelling and Trekking ? ?️?️‍? Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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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.

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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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Email and Calendar Data Are Helping Firms Understand How Employees Work

Harvard Business Review

However, you can also get powerful insights using anonymous metadata, where the individual names and specific content are removed. An early example comes from an organization restructure we have been working on. We can say precisely what behavior change is needed to make a new process work, and then monitor improvement in real time.