Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

As organizations adapt in the face of change, employees need strong leaders who can clearly communicate the new direction, align the company’s resources, and get commitment from everyone involved. Technology trends. Our perspective is that leadership takes direction, alignment, and commitment (DAC).

Altman 76

Altman Decentralization COO Restructuring 76

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. This can be done in various ways, including automating processes, restructuring how tasks are completed, and minimizing the amount of time employees spend on non-productive activities.

Finance 109

Finance Technology BPM Company 109

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Exit interviews are a key way to identify why an employee wasn’t able to settle into an organization so it can be addressed in the next round of hiring Ensuring a job description accurately represents a role can help ensure candidates know what they are signing up for Explain company policies, probation criteria, salaries, etc.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. It also enhances the young leaders’ commitment to stay with the firm. The decline in opportunities for promotion. .

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

My recent paper , coauthored with Naoshi Ikeda and Sho Watanabe of Tokyo Institute of Technology, empirically tests this quiet life hypothesis with Japanese data. Do managers really work less hard without competition and monitoring? Left to their own devices, do managers really prefer the quiet life?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

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.

Resistance 15

Resistance Commitment Uncertainty Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Right away, the senior management team converts its PowerPoint decks into a road show that explains the strategy, develops a comprehensive implementation plan, sets up a program management office, establishes steering committees, assigns roles, and even starts restructuring. But after six months the plan starts to falter.

Strategy 8

Strategy Restructuring Committee Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

” This feedback helped Oka, an industry outsider, convince President Kazuo Ushida, a 40-year veteran of Nikon’s technology businesses, that the company needed to revisit its dialogue with investors. Not until the restructuring was completed would Nikon pursue a growth agenda. The response was disappointing.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Experiment with frontier technologies. Digital reinvention only works if companies master the right digital technology architecture.

Succession 8

Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. For the gainfully underemployed, everyday is BYOD; their technologies are becoming their toolkits. The rise of part time jobs means the absence of full-time commitment. Of course not.

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There is a palpable sense of systemic instability in the face of political, economic, technological, social, and indeed meteorological uncertainty. They are infrastructure, technology, internationalization, communication, and the balance of continuity and change. 2) Technology. From News Corp. 1) Infrastructure.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Groupthink happens because of basic social and interpersonal dynamics that include a wish for group harmony, pressures for conformity, increased commitment to ill-advised or outdated strategies, and punishment of dissenters. Here’s what will replace it, and here’s what we need to do now to survive and thrive.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2020

Especially with forecasts predicting a potential economic slowdown, in 2020 we will see the C-suite grasp ethical practices as a competitive advantage, revamping and restructuring corporate social responsibility programs and efforts to demonstrate their commitment.

Ethics 84

Ethics Restructuring Competitive Advantage Trends 84

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Commitment to efficient value creation invariably inspires more thoughtful investment in the quality — not quantity — of staff.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Or you’re an auto-industry executive and you’re excited by a new technology that you could easily build into your latest model—but contracts with suppliers make such an innovation an impossibility this year, and maybe even next year. But your agreements with your suppliers prevent you from moving quickly.

Innovation 8

Innovation Retail Banking Price 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Leaders who consistently make bad decisions, dither, or fail to quickly secure needed resources or follow through on commitments are not apt to create Self-Starters. It may well be that some Self-Starters lack the equipment, technology, or funding needed to perform well and have simply given up. from the University of Washington.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. Again, acknowledging reality might force hard, but timely, decisions on restructuring employee benefits.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 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. IT also upgraded old technology and processes, achieving significant improvements in service and compliance.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. Creating a leadership circle is a step toward addressing these shortfalls.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

To this end, teachers’ work has subsequently been the subject of major restructuring over the past three decades. They work 60-plus hour work weeks, are in near-constant communication with parents, and must collect copious amounts of student data, among many other administrative and technological tasks.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. When we began our research, we expected to hear a lot about organizational design. The most important capabilities systems do not fall neatly into groupings designed many decades ago.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

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. ” We have known they do since they were introduced among British miners whose industry had been disrupted by new technology.

Management 8

Management Long-term System Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Even though markets change dramatically every year, products become obsolete and technology advances, and most businesses allocate their capital the same way year after year. ” or “How should I restructure my board?” Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Consultative 8

Consultative Budgeting Advice Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

To the firm, I was the “ ideal worker ” — a phrase sociologists use to describe a problematic archetype of a fully committed employee with no personal “entanglements.” A 2017 survey by Kronos and Future Workplace , reveals that the restructuring of work has resulted in significant burnout.

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2016

It drives large efforts from spearheading a movement to bringing a game-changing product or technology to market. As technology rapidly brings us into the broader world – and the world into our living rooms – for many it brings with it a sense of loss of control and a corresponding disruption in our sense of identity and place.

Hedge 50

Hedge Long-term Restructuring Maturity 50