HR Digest

MAY 23, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a great wake-up call for companies and their ability to manage change in the workplace. Organizational change management is about bringing changes in a company’s management style by first identifying problems (or potential ones) and then implementing suitable changes. And some did.

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Management How To Uncertainty Retail 94

The Practical Leader

APRIL 19, 2023

Some can spout the latest management book leader-speak. Sometimes ineffective leaders aren’t bullies, but their extremely weak leadership fosters a poisonous or bullying workplace by failing to deal with conflict or not addressing dysfunctional team dynamics. ” Nope. All were in favor. You’d better agree.

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Restructuring Tips Report Learning-by-Doing 111

The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

Recently I was asked to facilitate an executive retreat for the leadership team of a professional services firm. Assessment and feedback from the leadership team and managers and staff showed vast differences. The other solitude – managers and staff – rated how the leaders lived each core value at 1s and 2s.

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Commitment Teamwork Restructuring Morale 69

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2012

Is it ever OK to demote a manager back to their former position? Some companies or managers won’t even allow it, under any circumstances. I’ve seen cases when moving a manager one level down in the organization has turned out to be a win-win for the manager and the organization. But why not?

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HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2024

Managers spend a significant amount of time – around 6 hours per week – dealing with it. Studies show that over 95 percent of people who receive training on conflict resolution training report it helps them manage conflict in the workplace, and those with adequate training are more likely to seek win-win solutions.

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Strategy Restructuring Emotional Intelligence Training 52

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Provide strong leadership within your own team and practice upward leadership. We’ve long defined leadership as an action, not a position. I’ve written extensively on upward leadership or leading your leader. Micro-management. Boss Management Strategies. You can lead, follow, or wallow.

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How To Emotional Intelligence Restructuring Influence 124

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

It involved restructuring into wholesale and retail operations and providing an array of new retail services. . They did not understand and were not committed to the significant changes that would be needed in their attitude and behavior if the company were to become a competitive retail service provider. It’s a balancing act.

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Process Telecommunications Tips Productivity 199

Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

The best way to form a new habit is to remove anything that will tempt you into your old ways, to restructure your environment so it won’t tempt you. To be successful, you have to be deeply committed and willing to hold yourself accountable. Commit and follow through. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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How To Restructuring Strategy Commitment 166

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. The importance and value of leadership training and coaching came out clearly in the survey results.

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Altman Decentralization COO Restructuring 76

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

Workers are always subjected to performance monitoring where business profit dominates the employer-employee relationship, and workers need a nice and charming life, paid for by their work and commitment to their employer. Artificial intelligence is considered today to be the most creative and promising field for workforce management.

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How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

The Practical Leader

MARCH 31, 2020

This issue reflects the balanced leadership approach we need in these tough times, providing an open environment for straight talk and planning for the worst infused with hope, optimism, and positive possibilities. .” That feeds a vicious circle of pessimism and helplessness that reduces our action and makes the problem worse.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Sometimes people in leadership think that constant tinkering with an organization’s structure is the way to fix any issues. Unfortunately, the uncertainty of frequent restructuring actually makes problems worse. Quotas are a common practice but often not the best way to build a talented and committed diverse staff.

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Diversity Delegation Quality Restructuring 156

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Most progressive organizations today are using leadership competency models to outline the key skills and behaviors they want to see in their supervisors, managers, and executives. Used effectively, they become a roadmap to dramatically higher leadership effectiveness. have failed. have failed.

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Leadership Restructuring Quality Report 65

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Identify what could have gone wrong with the leadership team. It involves reassessing your business operations, starting with leadership. You may discover that some poor leadership decisions may have been responsible for your establishment doldrums. Institute new money management procedures. How can you do that?

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Finance Long-term Banking Restructuring 77

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

You would think that an Ivy League institution like Cornell University would be a model of the best practices of leadership throughout its organization since Cornell and most universities believe they are growing the next generation of leaders for our country and our world. not necessarily and not always. That got everyone’s attention!

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 63

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. billion into Nissan, but in return it required more than 36 percent of the company’s ownership and a commitment from Nissan to appoint Renault executive Carlos Ghosn as Nissan’s chief operating officer. Integrate Strategy and Leadership.

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Be aware, however, that constant re-engineering, reorganization, and restructuring in pursuit of efficiency (or the latest management fad) has a questionable effect at best. Adjusting in order to thrive, however, requires competent leadership and commitment to creating the best possible corporate culture.

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Succession Teamwork Restructuring Commitment 50

The Practical Leader

MAY 7, 2012

I recently ran a Moose-on-the-Table workshop for a major division of a large company going through the wrenching change of a wholesale restructuring and totally refocusing their business. Part of our discussion with this management group was how really bright people can come across as not wanting to hear other ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

But as a manager what can you expect? Managing an employee who is going through a stressful period is “one of the real challenges all bosses face,” says Linda Hill, professor at Harvard Business School and author of Being the Boss. Here’s how to manage an employee going through a personal crisis. .

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Crisis Management How To Stress 13

Lead from Within

MAY 21, 2019

People often wonder if they need a leadership coach. When you’re ready to get started, here are seven ways to ensure you get the most of your leadership coach. For coaching to be effective, you need to commit to at least a year. You know your leadership is working when others can emulate you and do great work on their own.

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Leadership Restructuring Learning-by-Doing Commitment 167

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. When employees don’t understand why changes are happening, it can be a barrier to driving ownership and commitment and can even result in resistance or push back.

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Resistance Commitment Uncertainty Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

The senior commercial and scientific directors formed a “circle of leaders” comprised of 23 senior managers who had no meaningful history of collaboration on strategic initiatives. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle. Creating a leadership circle is a step toward addressing these shortfalls.

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Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Mark’s boss was leading meetings to discuss restructuring the research business, and hadn’t been including Mark on the invites. In an effort to not step on toes, he had been deferring to his boss on the restructuring — but his passive approach was undermining him. He wondered whether his voice was appreciated.

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Restructuring How To Compliance Biotechnology 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. Two years in, Stayer fired three top managers because they kept deferring to him. ” Stayer soon became the darling of management gurus.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. How Phase 3 Is Changing PE Companies.

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. It also called for streamlining headquarters and cutting executive management’s compensation. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images.

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Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

But as developed nations restructure from manufacturing to knowledge and services, my bet is on the moms, or more specifically, women — and men who can think like them. Today''s work requires a new leadership paradigm. Gender Leadership Managing people Managing yourself'

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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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Diversity Execution Commitment Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. ” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. How best to draw actionable inspiration from Grove?

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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). to accusations over the company's values and the efficacy of its leadership. Establish core values across the company, not just within management.

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Mission Statement Restructuring Committee Ethics 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Conversely, when everyone in the business — not just the CEO — can pass the kitchen table test with their families and talk with pride about their work, employee commitment and motivation will likely be off the charts.

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Restructuring Short-term Long-term Outsourcing 12

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. Also at issue are what and when management told the board and what processes the board had for oversight.

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Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

IRS Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998); and an outstanding, senior executive from the private sector, Charles Rossotti , was appointed for a five-year term to drive the changes. These leadership challenges may seem familiar, but in a bureaucracy they are, if anything, magnified.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

The story is a familiar one: A company's quarterly earnings fall significantly short of the investment community's expectations, and the CEO announces a restructuring, including a cut in R&D, to lower costs, regardless of the negative impact on the firm's long-term prospects.

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