Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2013

Transforming an organization while keeping day-to-day operations running is like fixing a car as it is being driven; it’s complicated, risky, and it’s not clear whether the team can pull it off. Review past change projects they have led and what they learned from them. Often, leaders become paralyzed by the magnitude of the change.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1994 having ostensibly completed this successfully I was transferred to the mining side of the business, in iron ore, then aluminium – running the Aluminium Product Group, back to Iron Ore to run this Product Group and then in early 2013 I was promoted to Global CEO. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

And, the operating budget has climbed from $38M to $178M. HPU was named a 2013 Green College in The Princeton Review. Enrollment has grown from 1450 when Nido took the reins of leadership to over 4300 today; the faculty has gone from 108 to 260. Retention has skyrocketed and SAT scores have jumped 55 points on average.

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Leadership Education Wireless Rogers 150

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Originally published in Harvard Business Review , this post needs to be reread since my friend Vala Afshar will be a storyteller at BIF1 0 and Sidney Kushner will be attending - in just two weeks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. One of the biggest assets in anyone’s life is a generous network. It is a gift that grows simply by sharing it.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. A month after the outbreak started, 164 scientific papers were already available on PubMed with many more papers undergoing peer review. Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008.

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Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Unfortunately, for most of them, the mental exhaustion is far outweighing any notions of making efforts for reflection and review. Some other posts you may enjoy: This Year, Be Ready One Important Leadership Lesson To Take Into Next Year The Role Leaders Play In Developing Great Teams A Look Back At My Top 10 Leadership Insights From 2013.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Block provides operational executives and managers with the insight needed to relate ‘shop floor’ decisions and activities with the organization’s financial future. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Whole Business Thinking – A Guide To Exceptional Business Performance. by Robert S.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2013

The paper describes how best practices in measuring organizational performance in the nuclear power industry can be applied to healthcare providers facing the daunting challenge of concurrently increasing production, efficiency, and quality – all while reducing operating costs. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Six Sigma Organization White Paper Efficiency 62

Strategy Driven

JUNE 11, 2013

Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 17 – Annual Alignment Review. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here. Enterprise Performance Measurement. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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System KPI Metrics Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The authors of a Harvard Business School working paper, Goals Gone Wild , reviewed a number of research studies related to goals and concluded that the upside of goal setting has been exaggerated and the downside, the "systematic harm caused by goal setting," has been disregarded. An operations goal might articulate a cost savings.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Pawel Motyl – Formerly CEO Harvard Business Review Poland, noted speaker, consultant and executive coach, author Labirynt Sztuka podejmowania decyzji. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia. Ayse Birsel – One of the Inc. Thought Leaders – Cohort 2. Kevin Koch – President and CEO of Koch, Inc.,

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

After escaping GM, I had an opportunity to attend graduate school at MIT, to study operations management, system dynamics, and other topics. Mark also co-authored Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements , which was released in June 2012 and also a Shingo Research Award recipient in 2013.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. I co-conducted a professional peer review of a nearly identical campus on the west coast (size, structure, unions, facilities, budget, number of staff). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering. The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Sir Christopher Kelly, a former British senior civil servant, recently produced a damning report , which reviewed the events that led to the £1.5 s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. hedge funds.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Take the example of Harvey Norman , an Australia-based household-goods retailer that operates under various brands and has stores in several countries. The company’s 2013 annual report contained the usual statements on income, changes in equity, and cash flows — standard stuff. Its revenue comes from franchises ($AU4.77

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Between October 1 and 17, the federal government ceased all nonessential operations because of a partisan stalemate over Obamacare. noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08

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Health Care Budgeting Pharmaceuticals Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

The first step is to carefully review each job posting. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Initiated contact with Director, staff, students, and faculty to minimize disruption of department’s operations. Here’s how.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” General Electric Operations Strategy'

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

These days, for studying anything related to online, 2013 is ancient history. Scratching our heads, we saw the Census tables showed that general merchandise stores — which is where they code Wal-Mart — had only $88 million in online sales in 2013. So we started digging. We pored over the surveys and documentation.

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Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A 2015 systematic review of physician leadership development programs found that few reported negative outcomes or system level effects (i.e. Assessment systems should also be developed to mitigate biases that downplay or disregard women’s and minorities’ leadership capabilities.

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Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. ” Performance is subject to constant measurement and review — employees can anonymously report each other to higher-ups through an internal phone system. Whole Foods, on the other hand, has a much looser culture.

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Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent. Microsoft was able to do so largely due to its monopolization of the desktop operating system market.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 30, 2012

The team didn’t live up to its expectations, and your operating division is going to miss its budget target. Everyone gets about the same review rating, and about the same raise. Happy New Year, and Lead Well in 2013! You’ve had a difficult year. As the new year approaches, you make a resolution.

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Leadership Short-term Budgeting Morale 342

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. According to Reuters reporting , until a few years ago the bank operated in Sudan, a country whose government was under U.S. sanctions, like Iran.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. That is what GM is trying to do.

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Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

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Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

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Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

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Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Someone else designed an experiment to get a plant operation down to zero accidents.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

Checklists describe several standard critical processes of care that many operating rooms typically implement from memory. In a related paper published in 2013 , Alexander Arriaga and colleagues had 17 operating-room teams participate in 106 simulated surgical-crisis scenarios. following the introduction of checklists.

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Hawthorne Effect Airlines Efficiency Letter 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2013, Google took a step towards understanding the intent of their users with the Hummingbird algorithm. Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. beastfromeast/Getty Images.

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How To Ethics Media Content 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. How Google manages.

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