Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2015

The cartoon showed a group of people sitting around a conference table with this caption: I need your sales forecasts by Monday, your updated client list by Tuesday, your expense reports by Wednesday and your budget plans by Thursday. Our restructure was different: It took some time for the team to warm up to the idea.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Fortify Development. Although most small towns want to remain small, which is the bulk of their charm, as time goes on there needs to be some kind of development. It’s in small towns’ best interests to develop a plan where new industries can set up shop. Strengthen the Police Force. Make the Town Walkable.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

IBM is one of the leaders in agile adoption and has multiple articles that encourage the early inclusion of agile HR project planning and enterprise agility at all levels of the business. Agile HR can be defined by its principles of responsiveness that encourage restructuring of work to facilitate immediate feedback, planning, and action.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

What sorts of “insight” are expected from technologies? A new IBM report shows that half of CHROs identified for the study recognize the possibilities for innovation in HR operations and the acquisition and development of talent. How does AI become key to this dynamic? What risks do employees face in the modern workplace?

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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. Some elements of an implementation plan are shakily in place. Their commitment is a road to lofty values paved with good intentions.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

But the task is quite possible with planning and frequent assessments. From the leadership’s attitude to the overall company culture, every element has to be designed to appeal to an employee’s desire to stay right where they are. Employees stay with organizations that care about them and help them grow.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Demonstrating Technological Savvy. High-potential leaders from around the world were consistent in expressing the view that technological savvy will be a key competency for the global leader of the future. One trend on this issue was clear—the younger the participant, the greater their emphasis in the importance of technological savvy.

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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. To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Ajay is a technologist and business strategist who often obsesses over issues that range from the impact of technology on disruptive business models to entrepreneurship and impact investing. LG has devised payment subscription plans that makes its products affordable. [Editor''s Note: This is a guest post from Ajay Swamy.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 10, 2011

We then used the summary and key themes of their input for assessment, learning, brainstorming, and action planning. In their case, the biggest internal changes they identified were: Leadership/Culture Development. Sales Training/New Business Development. New Technology. Succession Planning/Generational 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

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

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

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. Training and Professional Development If there are new systems in place, or even old systems that could be more efficient, take the time to train the staff. Nothing like changes that occur.

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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. Planning for Recovery While the crisis is ongoing, it’s crucial to start planning for recovery. Can you pivot your business to meet changing market demands?

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

They hired consultants and launched a series of restructuring and improvement projects in warehouse and shipping logistics, branding, renovating stores, revamping product lines, customer service training, IT systems, and the like. But little time is often invested in developing ongoing improvement plans, habits, or approaches.

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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. At the urging of many investors, President Ushida also took the decision to discontinue the company’s three-year growth plan.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

In the oil industry, for example, what used to be weeks of inspection work now takes just days, thanks to drone-based thermal imaging and gas “sniffer” technology to inspect oil rigs and pipelines. Factors such as investment horizon, need for data security, and desired development speed will influence this choice.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

He introduced a strategic planning process directed from the center. The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. It was developed by Japan and South Korea in the 1980s and is used widely by emerging markets from Brazil to India.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." That, essentially, was the message behind M. So many of the elements," she pointed out herself, "are simply good management procedures.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

According to the International Labour Organization, workers in developed and developing countries are facing increasing strain at work. Researchers at the University of Buffalo found that stressors, big and small, help us develop the skills to face other taxing or stressful circumstances in the future.

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Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2019

Countries around the world are faced with considerable skills, productivity and social inclusion challenges that require novel and innovative approaches to skills development. “Skills provision was reformed to be much more market-oriented and aligned with the city’s economic development strategy, ” the authors explain.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I’d like to share the features of our innovative planning process, with an eye toward helping other institutions adopt the elements that will work for them. Restructuring the process. Planning groups are nothing new, of course, but we approached them differently. UT Southwestern’s president, Daniel K. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. Appreciating the essence of technology and the technology of essence is key.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

medical-device maker, a planned new heart defibrillator had to be scrapped after five years of expensive effort because the company's quality engineers did not meet federal requirements — due to their inadequate knowledge and skills. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports.

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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. As part of their change story, they developed a unifying internal communications campaign called the “Nature of Next” that articulated the reasoning and vision for the acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

The solution is to show some humility and to consider restructuring things so that your actions have some checks and balances. To do that, you may need to develop a hybrid approach that mixes the new, adjusted strategy with some older practices. Regroup, but with flexibility. Communicate to stop the contagion.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

From demographics to technology, the economy is changing dramatically and so is the way we work. Workers must plan for it in their careers. How should organizations restructure and change in light of it? Increasingly, people often work outside of the office and then come into the office to plan, ideate and collaborate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

There is no mechanism that reliably signals which skills employers need so that individuals and schools can develop those skills. Ultimately, we'll need to look at ways of restructuring work to enable it to be accomplished in ways that fit evolving education and behaviors. The problem is not just one of location and timing, however.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. P&G''s board has been under a great deal of pressure from an activist investor who has made his views on the pace of the restructuring clear and vocal. Of course a company should never neglect its largest developed markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up. Working against NASA as well was a heritage of exploration: unique space missions that pushed technologies and space travel to the edge. SpaceX developed a plan for sustaining the lower-cost business model over many years.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. The future could be planned.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Poor pay , increased health care costs , and diminished pension plans are certainly core issues — teachers in Oklahoma haven’t received a pay boost in a decade. To this end, teachers’ work has subsequently been the subject of major restructuring over the past three decades. The impact has been punishing.

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