Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Discussions about process improvement failures sprang up recently on two different LinkedIn groups I participate in, and most members cited a lack of leadership from the top as the primary reason. Why do cultures resist change? People resist change that is imposed on them. Six Sigma or Lean) the right way.

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Process Mayo Six Sigma Ryan 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Efficient operations that inflict misery on food animals. Experiments and experience show that people resist leaping from innocence to evil, but they can be lured into it one innocuous step at a time. My main job is consulting: business war games, strategy simulations, workshops on strategy. The room was very quiet.

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Tavris Proposal Industry Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The typical reaction is resistance. People will embrace change if it makes them feel more effective and is brought about with their active participation. Managers are told "be hard on the process, but soft on the operators.". Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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Process Bureaucracy Innovation Short-term 15

Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

That’s where Oleg Konovalov, business educator, consultant, coach, and a top global thinker on leadership wants to help. None of them talks about sales, operations, or any other functions that ordinary leaders tend to lean on and consider as the core drivers of execution. Do not allow anyone to silence your vision.

Consensus 125

Consensus Learning-by-Doing Long-term Banking 125

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Before joining Facebook as a security engineer in 2015, I worked in industries from consulting to manufacturing to retail. Offer to send a security representative to participate in the ideation and design process with product teams. After all, hackers have P&L sheets too.

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Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The benefits of the front-line driving improvements include pride of ownership that sustains the changes, less worry for managers about whether the changes will be adopted, and reduced costs for outside consultants. But most CEOs will strenuously resist making a qualified job guarantee like Art Byrne.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As part of our research, we partnered with the World Bank to offer manufacturers in Tarapur, India, the opportunity to participate in an experiment. Fourteen plants got free, high-quality advice from consultants, who taught them about three management fundamentals: setting targets, establishing incentives, and monitoring performance.

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Management Benchmarking Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The benefits of the front-line driving improvements include pride of ownership that sustains the changes, less worry for managers about whether the changes will be adopted, and reduced costs for outside consultants. But most CEOs will strenuously resist making a qualified job guarantee like Art Byrne.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 11

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. link] Social Influence Measurement – Tools, Resources & Commentary | Digital Marketing Blog // Digital Operative [.] Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 368

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These keep the branches, limbs and twigs (divisions, consultants and vendors) on a growth curve. This is yet another example of niche consultants skewing the client in the wrong directions.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. Yengyee Lor of Faithful Consulting. ” He is an entrepreneur, consultant, and public speaker. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking!

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

By identifying opportunities to fundamentally change how administrative services were delivered, the senior executives led by example and communicated a willingness to do their part in cutting costs by focusing on their own departments first – a messaging that helped dampen organizational resistance to change. Capitalize on success.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Second, Reddit traditionally has consulted with the community about business decisions, using subreddits as the mechanism for doing so. Third, Reddit has sponsored or participated in popular altruistic programs and has said it will share profits with charities chosen by its users. They are indeed “One of us!”

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Taylorism Taylor Airlines CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

” Once a company decides to try out an insight tool, it should keep its first data project small and focused on frontline decisions, that way participating managers can be engaged and help to ensure its success. They must resist the temptation to get more and more reports out of the system just because they can.

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Retail Banking Chief Information Officer Report 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These keep the branches, limbs and twigs (divisions, consultants and vendors) on a growth curve. Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time. About the Author.

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Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 68

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Some high-value services are not reimbursed at all, such as follow-up telephone contact after hospitalizations or “virtual” or informal consultations that avert the need for an office visit. Free-agent physicians operate independently, rather than as part of an integrated team. Flying blind is dangerous.

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Health Care How To Cost System 9

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Some cultures are deliberate – built and crafted carefully by the executive team and often consultants. Due to this resistance, I believe that culture CAN trump strategy, to the extend that the strategy and execution thereof are unsuccessful. I think not, and I’ll explain why.

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Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 310

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Second, because it’s centralized, which makes it resistant to change and vulnerable to systems failures and attacks. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. Here, blockchain is a real game changer.

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