Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

Good habits result from resisting temptations. The best way to form a new habit is to remove anything that will tempt you into your old ways, to restructure your environment so it won’t tempt you. As much as possible, remove anything that keeps you tied to your old ways.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

If your initial reaction is to feel overwhelmed by these updates, then consider the role of an average employee who is more likely to be replaced more permanently through job cuts and organizational restructuring efforts. You might be able to help both the employees and yourself find some balance by fully understanding the role of HR.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. People are so entrenched in the do more paradigm that they struggle to kill their darlings , dump all of those exciting initiatives, and sacred cows, and resist adding more features to a product. This journey isn’t an easy one.

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Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

Lead from Within

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Open will means surrendering to chance, allowing what may come to emerge without resistance. In leadership language: “I know that this restructuring has been hard for you. When we have credibility, we are trusted.To lead means to take chances, to follow new paths. What can we do differently? What can we give up? I’m here to help.”.

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Leadership Restructuring Workshop Ethics 167

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

As organizations seek to adapt to changing times, senior executives realize they can’t rely on change through simple restructuring and re-engineering. A general feeling of resistance to organizational change — a.k.a. And for those corporate cultures to take effect, they need buy-in from employees willing to assume ownership.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

For instance, he had to persistently resist the suggestions that restructuring the union agreements was not possible, or that Ford should take the money offered by the Federal government. He did all this without borrowing from the US taxpayers. This accomplishment required incredible resolve.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. They bulldoze their plans through and others, who weren’t consulted, wind up resisting them — no surprise there.

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Leadership Welch Bottom-up Innovation 78

CO2

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. They bulldoze their plans through and others, who weren’t consulted, wind up resisting them — no surprise there.

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Leadership Welch Bottom-up Innovation 78

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. Resistance to change There’s no doubt about it: change can be overwhelming at times. Here are some of the key things to consider.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2015

It wasn’t long before these two resisters decided to become former Ford executives. When we join a reading group, we’re imposing structure on our reading habits (and possibly restructuring our social life). What better way to get his team communicating properly than by showing them step by step how great teams communicate?

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 19, 2012

Way too often executives will use organizational restructuring (often including mergers and acquisitions), implementing new systems — especially technology, tightening policies and procedures, or introduce programs like Lean/Six Sigma, safety, or cost cutting to drive organizational change.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

It’s a recession-resistant career, and you can find work anywhere in the world. Allows you to focus on different aspects of organizations – restructuring, selection, retention, leadership development, etc. They make more than some of my friends who have degrees, and there’s no certificate or college program required.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

This can be done in various ways, including automating processes, restructuring how tasks are completed, and minimizing the amount of time employees spend on non-productive activities. This can help to overcome resistance to change and support an effective and sustainable finance transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. When employees don’t understand why changes are happening, it can be a barrier to driving ownership and commitment and can even result in resistance or push back.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

But I’ve noticed a pattern over the past few hires: the very people who would benefit most from additional help at first resist the idea of a new arrival. Many articles have been written about why employees resist change and how to overcome that fear and defensiveness. However, it didn’t quite turn out that way.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. This will also help reduce any internal resistance based on the fear of cannibalization.

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Research we conducted at the London School of Economics suggests that resistance to change stems often from a negative experience of change leadership, rather than resistance to the change itself. We need to focus as much on how we drive change as what change we drive.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

Others will resist getting in the car at all. Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. It’s often the stress that people resist, not the change itself. For most people, change is a big deal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

For example, in one organization undergoing a major restructuring, each division designated a “transformation leader” as its point person for the work. In fact, the effort had generated some fear and resistance in the customer care centers and, if anything, performance was now worse.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Implementation is more difficult, because no matter how good and compelling the data, there will always be active and passive resistance, rationalizations, debates, and distractions – particularly when the changes require new ways of working or painful cuts. The announcement is the easy part; it makes the manager look bold and decisive.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

So what do you do if your organization has been shuffled, turned, twisted, and restructured? Until they figured out what they had to stop doing, the marketing team was perceived to be resistant and ineffective. The challenge is to make the structure work — regardless of its flaws.

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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. ’” Even if you conclude that things have fundamentally changed, Coyne advises resisting the urge to quit immediately.

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Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. This vulnerability frequently compels traditionalists to resist analytics. Finally, the CEO must identify the executives most vested in the status quo and proactively manage their resistance — up to and including weeding out the obstinate ones.

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CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

My husband is adapting to something he resists calling retirement. Or they can come from without, the land of restructurings and layoffs, divorce or other major life shifts. We are all transitioning — quasi-simultaneously and quite unexpectedly — into our next chapters. My daughter is graduating college.

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Restructuring Planning Skills Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

That was an appealing proposition but would require significant restructuring; no one's job was guaranteed. In other words, it was the kind of change that Mother Aetna traditionally resisted with every passive-aggressive move she could muster. Culture thus becomes an excuse and a diversion, rather than an accelerator and an energizer.

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Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. This will also help reduce any internal resistance based on the fear of cannibalization.

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Bigger firms also seemed to resist too much inequality developing between pay at the top and bottom. As firms restructured around one or a few competencies or occupations, the thinking goes, wages converged toward the market rate. Bigger companies could attract qualified, sought-after employees who could demand higher wages.

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Company Core Competence Outsourcing Restructuring 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Your aim is to “reduce resistance, bring people on board, and band allies and resources together.” In order to get employees on board, she needed to sell the idea — but first, Beth needed to understand the source of people’s resistance. “That’s the language of marketing,” says Butman.

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Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

When practical, leaders then need to support the solutions offered, provide reassurance, resist stepping in when solutions are not working out as planned, and periodically ask these individuals what they are learning by implementing their own solutions. Leaders need to break through this resistance and may need to press Criticizers for help.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Restructuring a company to focus on sustainability doesn’t happen overnight, so how long did it take to get everyone on board and how did you deal with any resistance to change? Because of this importance, we didn’t really experience any resistance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

He and several other employees had presented ideas for the restructuring of the controller’s function and the calculation of transfer prices within the company. town government is facing intractable gridlock because one town commissioner’s idea met some resistance. Gore & Assoc., One small U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Moreover, they encounter plenty of roadblocks which can slow down or completely derail any project: organizational apathy (or worse, antipathy), financial constraints, inevitable corporate restructurings, economic disruptions, organizational cultures that are slow to adapt or are singularly focused on meeting a quarterly financial target.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

To be a little hungry and yet to resist the temptation of eating.". We need to restructure our environments — like constricting our stomachs or emptying our cabinets — so we are more likely to move forward on our most important priorities. Our ability to lose weight is based on our willingness to suffer through discomfort.

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How To Long-term Environment Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

The restructuring of ERT, Greece''s national radio and TV corporation, had been under discussion for a while but the unions and other entrenched interests had so far seen to it that the discussion had gone nowhere. To salvage his government''s credibility in the wake of this, the prime minister decided to take a gamble.

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Politics Restructuring Crisis McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Since March, schools in West Virginia , Oklahoma , Kentucky , Arizona , Colorado and North Carolina have either been shut down or turned into sites of resistance. To this end, teachers’ work has subsequently been the subject of major restructuring over the past three decades. Teachers have had enough.

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Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Leaders in this stage create their own sense of reality and become resistant to evidence that they may be incorrect. As the leader begins to hear only praise and admiration, they enter the third stage : a negative cycle in which compliments and agreement cause them to become overconfident. Managing stress must be a priority.

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Charisma Self-aware Leadership Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

” Downtimes, when there is significantly less resistance to change and underutilized workers are available to make on them, provide excellent opportunities for companies to tackle challenging restructuring projects. With this in mind, some companies used the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession to their advantage.

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