The Practical Leader

JUNE 1, 2022

I was in a meeting with my colleagues, reviewing the rapid changes in our training and consulting business and sorting through our priorities for the coming quarter. Everything in our lives, business, politics, economics, the environment, and our social structures, is radically changing. The light dawned. And they never will.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. The complexity of our current crisis is clearly overwhelming many leaders, who haven’t adjusted to asking new questions that befit the new environment. How about that style?”

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. The complexity of our current crisis is clearly overwhelming many leaders, who haven’t adjusted to asking new questions that befit the new environment. How about that style?”

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Having had advance notice, the leaders had worked diligently with a top consulting firm to create a comprehensive strategic plan that would make them competitive. It involved restructuring into wholesale and retail operations and providing an array of new retail services. .

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. One large consulting and accounting firm recently embarked on an innovative program to identify and cultivate high-potential leaders. The decline in opportunities for promotion. . Provide opportunities for development and involvement. .

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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. ” The office environment was stressful both for Karin and for her team. What steps should you take to protect your job? What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. Too many calls for outside support from consultants. ” Create an environment of rapid innovation. Analytics can enable breakthrough innovations but only if the environment supports open discovery and experimentation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Management consultant Brian Robertson took that idea and founded HolacracyOne, a firm dedicated to helping companies (including Zappos) achieve this corporate ideal. Think: a total entity greater than the sum of its parts. As a result, a host of physiological reactions occur, impairing our memory and our ability to make good decisions.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. It’s especially so in an environment of change and transition. Others will resist getting in the car at all. For most people, change is a big deal.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Research shows that well over half the people in positions of authority are incompetent, and the Criticizer and Slacker followership types may be ways direct reports cope with clueless bosses, while Brown-Nosers will do very well in an environment where a boss values people who tell him or her how great he or she is. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

Most refer to organizational changes such as restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, downsizing or moving locations, all of which may result in abrupt shifts in reporting lines, job responsibilities, or the physical environment. Interestingly, there were very few mentions of compensation as a factor in discontent.).

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 20, 2012

However, the disadvantages will quickly outweigh the advantages if leaders think this is simply a matter of restructuring or drawing dotted lines on an organizational chart. C=consult to the project because they have needed information or expertise but do not make decisions or do the work. Leadership In a Matrix. Delayed decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

For most people in health care, being involved in designing a new hospital is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform both their work environment and the care they deliver. Restructuring the process. Jennifer Maravillas FOR HBR. We at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center certainly feel that way about our William P.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

They pay upwards of $300K to $1 million to consultancy firms that conduct market analyses and in-depth need-finding, identify new opportunities, generate promising ideas, and, often, develop ideas into working prototypes. All of this can make clients, who are paying high fees for innovation consulting, nervous. A Different Approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. Smarter Buildings: The Foundation for Smart Cities. Lucid is one company leading the transition to smarter buildings and smarter cities.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

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. Kasturi Rangan ; Michael Mauboussin of Legg Masson; Jeffrey Pfeffer of Stanford; and Michael Raynor of Deloitte Consulting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

To this end, teachers’ work has subsequently been the subject of major restructuring over the past three decades. This all occurs in an environment where teachers need higher skills — many are required to have advanced degrees and numerous certifications — and are asked to do more with less. are women ).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

It used to be that the surest path to career greatness entailed “hitching your wagon to a star manager — as your boss rose, you rose too,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. Today, things are different.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2016

They cast about searching for a toehold by rebranding or restructuring with no meaningful understanding of how and why they exist. Janet Feldman is a Managing Principal for Korn Ferry Leadership and Talent Consulting, based in the Firm’s Minneapolis office. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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