The Practical Leader

MAY 25, 2022

Down the hall, Brian’s boss was meeting with the HR director to review staffing for new roles and projects emerging from the recent organizational restructuring. Do they clearly reflect your top goals and priorities? Do your most demanding creative mental work during your peak performance time.

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Tips Restructuring Constraint Open-book 81

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Taking a leadership team off-site for a few days is a great way to develop strategy, get creative, develop a team, learn, and re-invigorate a team. Examples: “A list of 3-5 three year goals”, “A shared vision”, “a shared understanding of each other’s concerns”. A restructuring? Here’s a proven design method I’ve used: 1.

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Team Leadership Participative Restructuring 122

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Job personalization is best applied when there are clear inflection points: when career trajectories are stalled, during corporate restructuring, or in recruiting for open positions. In my experience, job creation typically is best applied to three types of personas: the altruistic, the big thinkers, and the creatives.

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Creativity Restructuring PR Mentor 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Its opening sentence: "Despite another quarter of robust corporate profits, an ominous impulse is stirring at many big companies — restructuring.". In his work on responsible restructuring, Cascio discovered profitable alternatives to employee layoffs. Actual creativity and productivity also tanked.

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Restructuring Open-book Creativity Motivation 11

Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The coach’s main mandate in this engagement is to support the employee in becoming a “change agent,” helping the leader to anticipate and overcome the hurdles that come as the company restructures its customer experience. When the goal is organizational change, then the coach and the coachee work in tandem to go in one single direction.

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Development Executive Coaching Objective Audience 105

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas. It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Of course, if you have the leeway to get creative with a flexible schedule, an adjusted workload, or a temporary work-from-home arrangement, do what you think is best. Be realistic about what they can accomplish and set goals they can meet. Be creative with solutions. But the decision isn’t always yours to make.

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Crisis Management How To Stress 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

The internet and its layers took decades to develop, with each technical layer unlocking an explosion of creative and entrepreneurial activity. Regulators could remake the financial system by rethinking the best way to achieve policy goals, without diluting standards.

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Banking Media Decentralization Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

But really understanding what makes these chemicals so powerful requires diving deeper into their impact on motivation, learning, and creativity. Flow’s impact on creativity may be its most important role in today’s accelerated climate. This drives the creative process. Let’s take them one at a time. novel ideas).

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Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Their process — having a big goal, learning from the past, looking at the whole picture to find and prioritize opportunities, then refining key aspects of the space flight model to achieve their objective — is an approach that can make any organization more creative about cutting costs. They think big.

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Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

They are finding creative — and in many cases disruptive — ways to tackle some of society's toughest problems and create long-term value for their companies as well. They are a new breed of business professional — the social intra preneurs. Do they always succeed in these endeavors?

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

If there’s not someone creating and communicating an overarching, simple plan for the larger organization and getting everyone to pitch in, people start breaking down into small tribes and pursuing their own goals and agendas. When CEOs hold town hall meetings to talk about overarching goals, some people reflexively roll their eyes.

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CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Once upon a time, “organization design” meant bringing in a slew of consultants to oversee a large-scale organizational restructuring, most often intended to take out big chunks of cost during an economic downturn. So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

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Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

In one, a star researcher said that he was leaving as there was no space for creativity anymore, as the company squeezed budgets and eliminated roles without a clear ROI. If one member of the leadership team owned a key driver, the goal was to let them manage it rather than everybody being in micro-management mode.

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Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial. Despite this growing obsession, however, big companies are still not very good at it.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

” We restructured Machine Shop to focus on innovation through non-traditional business partnerships and creative design thinking. To help think through this critical strategic restructuring, we turned to a leading expert on marketing strategy for media and entertainment firms, Harvard Business School Professor Anita Elberse.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

A 2017 survey by Kronos and Future Workplace , reveals that the restructuring of work has resulted in significant burnout. While there will still be high-stakes, time-sensitive issues like beating a competitor to market with a new product, acknowledge that endurance is the goal, and speed is not the best or only metric of long-term success.

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Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A dual-class structure, offering immunity against proxy contests initiated by short-term investors, could be optimal if it enables founder-managers to ignore pressures from the capital markets and avoid myopic actions such as cutting research and development and delaying corporate restructuring. So, a one-size-fits-all policy would not work.

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Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Endenburg Elektrotechniek and many other applications of sociocracy suggest that “self-organization” and “hierarchy,” rather than being contrasting ideas, are complementary tools in turning distributed management into a system with a limited number of circles conducting very creative but efficient meetings.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8