Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The typical request for proposal (RFP) has a bunch of standards about what has to be offered by the vendor, but far too little (or nothing) about what happens after the company takes ownership. This is not as difficult as it sounds, especially if you can apply internal pressure to senior management where your product will be used.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR.

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Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. Business is moving too fast. What works instead?

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

So far in 2017, our firm, Semler Brossy, has identified 200 shareholder proposals on the environment among the Russell 3000 companies, already exceeding 2016’s total. Average investor support for such proposals has reached a new high of 29%. Four proposals received majority support, more than in the previous six years combined.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. But manage it, and you become the industry leader.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s hedge funds. It is based on four questions.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Though many HR managers would take exception to those findings, they do, overwhelmingly, want more of a strategic voice than they have now. A few months ago, Ram Charan proposed splitting HR into two parts: one to oversee leadership and organization, and one to handle administration. Hiring Human resources Talent management'

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Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W. The chair of the new three-person committee, Richard L.

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Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

in 1999 with the dream of: “changing people’s lives with science and technology” — and then he delivered this in a big way, becoming probably the richest person in China, and the only Chinese member of Forbes ’ “top 12 most powerful entrepreneurs for 2013”. . For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary.

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

The proposal was not immediately welcomed by the companies who anticipated all sorts of problems with contracts, arrangements and equity. Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013. Should your leadership development systems at least consider cross-boundary experience as an option?

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Years of economic mismanagement. The president also announced the indigenization ministry will be disbanded and the program scaled back.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2015

A typical manager is interrupted approximately seven times an hour, which adds up to 56 interruptions a day, 80% of which are considered trivial, according to time management experts. It doesn't matter if you're working on the most important proposal of your life or an email to your manager. . Tosi on April 1, 2013.

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eBook Efficiency Open-book Quality 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Every organization needs strategic thinkers.

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Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? Third, we communicated extensively.

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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

By 2013, we had honored Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Garrett Camp of Uber, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Gangnam style pop artist Psy. Rarely have I had that kind of immediate trust and social currency when proposing something new. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

So we took a different approach, building a highly integrated leadership team that sets a new standard for emergency care, with the needs of patients (not providers) as the driving force. But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

A strong and growing body of research shows that diversity on teams — especially at the leadership and decision-making levels — drives greater marketplace innovation and profitability. in the fourth quarter of 2013. The immigration proposals on the table in Congress would do much to end this talent waste.

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Diversity Globalization Competitive Intelligence Competitive Advantage 8