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3 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Rethink Your Executive Team

Leading Blog

Our research on CEOs and their senior leadership teams reveals that regularly reevaluating and adjusting the leadership team is crucial for optimizing a company’s performance over time. These changes have necessitated new capabilities and forced even the most established players to make radical departures from their business models.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

As the investor leader, you are becoming more familiar with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. . Certain functional leadership positions, and industry sectors, can be less strident on this question. If the position is operational, hire an operations manager and a finance head. .

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No Better Time

Persuasive Powerhouse

An enterprise business model was developed that takes in all the processes across all the business areas. Processes are categorized by a Business Cycle (end to end business process) which are “owned&# by a majority of non-financial senior leaders. The CFO owns a couple. Thanks for sharing this one.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Avoiding Catastrophic Failures in Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. The division head launched a major business reengineering effort, hired a leading consulting firm (and paid it millions), and dedicated his best people to the effort. What happened?

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How Thomson Reuters Is Creating a Culture of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps. ideation” and “rapid prototyping”).

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem. Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Radically cut costs in the old business to fund the new game. Think like a large-scale entrepreneur.