Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Our Universal Model of Leadership helps explain how extraordinary leadership develops and how to accelerate its development. Our Universal Model includes five stages of progressive leadership development: Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive. Consciousness is the Internal Operating System (IOS) of performance.

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HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. Layoff due to restructuring. Sincerely, Grace OPTION 2: LAYOFF DUE TO RESTRUCTING A sample layoff email to communicate a restructuring layoff with empathy and clarity. Layoff due to economic downturn.

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Letter Politics Restructuring Sample 98

The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

” In culture development efforts, leaders will strongly declare their commitment to core values like safety, quality, service, engagement, teamwork, integrity, innovation, and the like. Integration — day-to-day operating decisions are delegated to increasingly autonomous frontline teams.

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Commitment Teamwork Restructuring Morale 69

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

When data is sufficiently large, it is utilized to train algorithms that predict talents and capabilities; screen performance; set and survey work outputs; link workforce to various state of emotions; provide training and development; search for patterns across various teams; and more. How does AI become key to this dynamic?

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How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

The findings emerged from a study of the automotive industry in nine developed countries, which collectively underwent 205 collective layoffs from 20 major brands over a 15 year period. It’s likely that the merit of the firm’s prior actions will be called into question, however, as will their future prospects. ” .

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2020

This can cover situations such as growing a business (which requires ‘growth capital’ for expansion or development); financing operational changes such as restructuring to make the business more profitable; financing acquisitions of other companies; or delisting a public company in order to give it private status.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

As leaders, we should be allowing the best of employee behaviors to drive the culture and operations, and not allowing negative behaviors to drag things down. I worked for a large entertainment company and went through an internal restructuring designed to foster more front line customer service.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. In HR we now have the chance to move from an operational, back-office function to a leader of change.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 62

LDRLB

JUNE 23, 2010

The underlying assumption of TOC is that organizations can be controlled by variations on three measures: throughput, operating expense, and inventory. Operating expense is all the money the system spends in order to turn inventory into throughput. Throughput is money generated through sales.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people. Provide opportunities for development and involvement. . The decline in opportunities for promotion. .

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 50

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

Just because an opinion is expressed boldly, and even when data can be developed to support the opinion, opinion doesn’t become fact – it’s still an opinion. Let me be clear – I have nothing against theories so long as they’re presented as such.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. Ensure Strategic Fit.

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Restructure training. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop increased in-service education. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. Loren Vorlicky of the Health Services Research Center translated them into a health care context. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

This might involve tough decisions like restructuring or letting go of less profitable product lines, but such changes can lead to a more robust business post-crisis. It might highlight weaknesses you were previously unaware of or present opportunities for growth and development. Are there inefficiencies you can address?

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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. Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 8, 2013

Draft a provocative vision and values The operative word here being, “ provocative.” Let them know you genuinely care about their future and then encourage their development. A company’s vision and values should excite and inspire its employees – and, yes… even deter those people that don’t share your beliefs. Connect with them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The logic sounds compelling: A customer-centric structure , as the approach is known, can help a company understand its customers better, develop deeper relationships with them, and improve customer satisfaction. Its adoption of customer-centricity yielded a 36% increase in return on assets over the four-year period after the restructuring.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course). Though autonomous, they can improve their operating capabilities and speed up their time to reinvention by learning from each other.

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

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Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Soon, it might be worthwhile for many companies to check whether drone-based data could add value – either to optimize current operations or offer new avenues for growth. Factors such as investment horizon, need for data security, and desired development speed will influence this choice.

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Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

A constant theme during meetings over the last three years has been how globalisation and the economic crisis have forced organizations to rethink their strategies and change they way they operate. Worse, organizations rarely show people how to operate in a new structure, which can also undermine effectiveness.

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Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 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.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, in the early stages of development there are many competing technologies, so it’s important to specify which blockchain you’re talking about. The internet and its layers took decades to develop, with each technical layer unlocking an explosion of creative and entrepreneurial activity.

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Banking Media Decentralization Technology 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. I recommend using it in developing a corporate performance scorecard. Should CEO performance be assessed only on “hard” measures?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2014

The best companies — those in the top quartile of revenue per employee — did 30% better than their peers in return on invested capital, 40% better in operating margin, and 80% better in revenue growth. Those differences contributed to a whopping 180% differential in total shareholder return over the 10-year period.

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Human Capital Restructuring Committee Comparison 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Coca-Cola is one of the many companies that are making efforts to tackle the world’s greatest societal challenges — water scarcity, climate change, and even the rights of women and girls in the developing world. How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? It can be difficult to measure and compare.

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CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

In our book Repeatability , Chris Zook and I show how top-performing companies typically develop repeatable models that incorporate their strategy in front-line activities. The question forced the team to deconstruct the business and reconstruct it based on technological developments and competitive moves.

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Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Greece did have some good arguments going for it: It had achieved the biggest fiscal adjustment any developed country had mustered so far , stabilized its economy, and restructured its private debt. This unfortunate state of affairs is partly the result of the difficult negotiating hand Greece dealt itself. This looks unlikely.

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