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. That might include loss of a loved one, a job, health or mobility, a relationship, finances, certainty, or power and control. The light dawned. And they never will.

Restructuring 75

Restructuring Finance Politics Energy 75

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. This can be done in various ways, including automating processes, restructuring how tasks are completed, and minimizing the amount of time employees spend on non-productive activities.

Finance 123

Finance Technology BPM Company 123

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. The pay is also excellent; I’ve heard people say it’s half the work/training for 90% of the pay of a physician – it’s food for thought. If you keep moving up you can triple that as a General Manager.

Career 192

Career Real Estate Engineering Education 192

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. We renewed the portfolio and we launched a huge skill transformation.

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

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.

Press Release 100

Press Release Motivation Discount PR 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We required every person who had supervisory responsibilities to attend a nine-day intensive training spread over three-four months. The experiential, highly interactive course included intensive exploration and training in 4 core Masteries: Personal Mastery, Interpersonal Mastery, Team Mastery and Culture and Systems Mastery.

Leadership 78

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 78

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

These patterns reinforce each other: less development leads to a greater need to hire skills from the outside, and doing so reduces the need to develop internally; it also creates spillover problems for other employers for whom turnover reduces the ability to finance training. Is it time to bring back the Organization Man ?

Organization 13

Organization Restructuring Talent Management Skills 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. These strategies eroded GE’s competitive advantage in everything from consumer electronics and home appliances to trains and aircraft engines.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The government’s welfare spending was too small to dole out benefits to those who lost jobs during business restructurings. Even though the Japanese government dared to take deficit financing in order to boost the economy, it mostly injected money into building infrastructure, but didn’t expand spending on welfare much.

Consensus 8

Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

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. Then came sales forces, finance departments, and R&D labs—including the original labs of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. On paper, Walmart appears to have adopted many best practices and to have set out a sound plan for moving forward.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard.

Open-book 272

Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

economy — especially software-intensive sectors such as media, professional services, and finance — tend to be highly profitable as well. “Companies are restructuring from an industry focus to an occupational focus,” he told me. Bloom thinks outsourcing is a cause as well. “Think of General Electric.”

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8