In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Risk-averse CEOs find comfort in the ‘ doing more of the same’ strategic mode. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. Branding Human Resources Leadership Life Marketing Strategy Bob Olodort CEO Complexity Culture Focus Jacobs Suchard Nabob Sacrifice Samsung Vision'

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cruise layoffs will affect around 24% of its workforce as it works to restructure operations following an accident that forced it to halt U.S. The unit’s CEO Kyle Vogt and co-founder Dan Kan both resigned last month. GM Cruise on Thursday announced internally that it will lay off 900 employees, or 24% of its workforce.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 23, 2014

Clearly, regulatory restructuring on a global scale is underway. As a result, executives are being tasked to optimize their enterprise''s organizational structures, to enhance product and service delivery models, and to blaze new paths to unmatched market reach. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership: Self-Coaching Secrets.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

This is a short-term aggravation, and though it may thrash earnings for the quarter or the year, it is not a restructuring of the marketplace. Sure, it isn’t business as usual, and yes, every CEO has to make some moves to shore up sales and profits. CEO’s justify across-the-board cuts because they think it is fair.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I’ve been a consultant for over 20 years now, focused on helping international clients in areas of business and market strategy, positioning and market launches. On with the interview… Mike Myatt: For our readers not familiar with your background, could you give us a brief Bio?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

But when theories are marketed as fact, I begin to lose patience rather quickly. How many of you reading this post are currently CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies? While I agree with many of his suppositions on what makes a great leader, I vehemently disagree that only one leadership style can work effectively.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

In our study of leadership characteristics, we found both consistent themes and emerging trends. Many qualities of effective leadership – characteristics such as communicating vision, demonstrating integrity, focusing on results, and ensuring customer satisfaction – will never change. Sharing leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach. Employee Engagement Leadership'

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

“The biggest leadership challenge is to create the future while managing the present across the entire organization.” The declaration of over 180 CEOs who are part of the Business Roundtable that redefines the purpose of the corporation is just one example. ” -Erich Joachimsthaler. ” -Erich Joachimsthaler.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. Nissan’s market share in Japan had stalled at just 16 percent, it was faring little better abroad, and losses were mounting everywhere.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

And for more than 100 years, the factory pumped out Heinz Ketchup and a variety of baby foods to markets in Canada and the USA. Heinz, like so many other multinationals gave the stereotypical corporate rationale — they said the plant was unprofitable and part of a global restructuring.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Now DC workers are seeing a change in leadership across different agencies which may mean a new boss along with new systems and priorities. Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. Leadership and Change It was a planned change.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Being a CEO is harder than ever. What’s a CEO to do? And their CEOs are leading the charge. What does digital leadership look like in this sense? The 21st-Century CEO. Leadership is changing — fast. It’s not a good position to be in. Should you hire a chief digital officer? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

He had inherited a thriving soft drink bottling business from his father, and by marketing it to South America he grew the company significantly. He introduced me to a company that was opening up a new market in Atlanta. When the recession of 2001 hit, I had to restructure my business. It made him feel young again. since 1987.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. One reason stock prices increase so much when activism is announced is that market participants perceive an increased probability that the company will be sold at a premium, or at least be shaken up.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the past 25 years, CEOs of many major corporations have relied on a flawed set of beliefs to lead their organizations. This environment and the behavior produced by the prevailing set of beliefs to which CEOs subscribe have deepened a widespread public distrust of corporations and capitalism. The stock market is short-term-oriented.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. In an earlier blog post , I observed that CEOs seemed to be rewarded handsomely for downsizing and outsourcing, acquiring or merging, and making the quarter — all justified by the responsibility to maximize shareholder value. billion in revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. ” Similarly, without sufficient monitoring by owners of the firms or the stock market, managers might be tempted to enjoy the quiet life instead of making hard decisions or taking on difficult tasks. .” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

The Commonwealth Bank’s shareholders were reacting to the board’s annual Remuneration Report, which contained a recommendation that the CEO be granted a bonus based on what critics saw as “soft” measures. Should CEO performance be assessed only on “hard” measures? It has no intention of doing so.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

With former CEO A.G. She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. Appointing a new CEO buys everyone time, and thus quiets the noise for a while. She holds the Ernest L. But note how P&G did it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance. Take Motorola, for instance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. Only about 7% to 8% of companies retain the strengths of the founder’s mentality as they grow to industry leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Leif Johansson , recently retired CEO of the Volvo Group , has a simple and powerful test to track his progress as a leader. For example: How do you deal with difficult business decisions that affect employees and communities — such as restructuring, downsizing, and outsourcing — without leaving your humanity at the door?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. Can Cook do this? Before A.G.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2011

Many love to boast when their revenues soar, or publicize the strategic restructuring of their organizational response committees (whatever that means). That has direct and indirect effects on the economy, which is made all the worse by rising fears of a double-dip recession and angst over the state of global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Think of this as the same, but instead of talking about sports in the context of the weather, HBR is talking about failure in the context of the CEO, employees, etc. It is much more dominated by the CEO, the board, the senior executives. As well as the CEO, the discussion focuses on "value" and "products and consumers.".

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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. How can you make the situation easier for yourself and your colleagues? What steps should you take to protect your job? How do you stay positive?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. On paper, Walmart appears to have adopted many best practices and to have set out a sound plan for moving forward.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

According to one consultant, job candidates focus most intently on “the past success—of the CEO and of the company. Candidates also appraise a firm’s future prospects, market competitiveness, and business strategy. He saw the upside in this hot market sector and the opportunity to lead and mentor a young team.”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Nokia’s CEO was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2007, with the headline “Nokia: A billion customer and counting. And this despite having working prototypes of devices that could have come to market as the iPhone or iPad – years before Apple invented them. Can anyone catch the cell phone king?”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’” In 1921, two brothers started the company to serve the ham radio market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Having spent the last five years of my career working hand in hand with many of the world’s most well-known companies on efforts to advance women and diverse professionals into leadership roles, I read with interest the recent study and blog post by my esteemed colleague Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. Europe, and Asia.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In the popular mind, there’s a lot of luck and inspired leadership behind successful choices like Southwest’s. The leadership teams at AOL and Time Warner were hardly boneheaded. Nearly half of CEOs reorganize their company in the first two years of their tenure. Many preside over multiple restructurings.

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