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Salty to Sweet: The Transformation of Mount Franklin Foods

Change Starts Here

A revolving leadership door had ushered four CEOs in and out in two years. Using the Balanced Scorecard methodology, the team developed a one-page strategy map, which detailed the objectives the team was trying to achieve and showed how they were connected. They introduced many new value-added and innovative new products.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Since the unit’s reported financial results were so good, the executives at the corporate headquarters didn’t ask many questions about the drivers of the unit’s profits – until it was too late. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers.

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Study: Female Executives Make Progress, But Mostly in Support Functions

Harvard Business Review

My gender consultancy firm, 20-First, has just published its annual Gender Balance Scorecard ( pdf ) of the top 300 companies in the world across the US, Europe and Asia. As usual, we try to broaden the focus from the current buzz around corporate boards to the more relevant metric of the gender balance of executive committees.

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With Change Agents, One Size Does Not Fit All

Harvard Business Review

In our research on change agents at the Phoenix Community of FCB Partners , we have found that there are three distinct challenges which require different kinds of change leaders: (1) transformational leaders, (2) innovation instigators, and (3) innovation managers. The Innovation Instigator. The Innovation Manager.

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How to Help Process Owners Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Incorporate these measures into the company's "balanced scorecard" or dashboard. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further. For instance, Air Products has a Senior Vice President of Supply Chain to whom the process owners report; he in turn reports to the CEO.

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Why the TSA Screening Revolt is Like Poison Ivy

Harvard Business Review

Just as poison ivy does not directly cause irritation, but spoofs our immune system into thinking our own skin is the enemy, careless reporting can cause more harm than good. And clear reporting in this sphere is so rare that I am aware of only one example. Now back to the subject at hand; reporting. It is around 100.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave. We all have.

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