LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This is a short-term aggravation, and though it may thrash earnings for the quarter or the year, it is not a restructuring of the marketplace. Sure, it isn’t business as usual, and yes, every CEO has to make some moves to shore up sales and profits. But, these blips have a way of separating leaders from followers.

Short-term 161

Short-term Long-term Budgeting Hammer 161

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Dozens of studies have shown that 50 – 70% of organization improvement initiatives like customer service, leadership development, performance management systems, restructuring, quality improvement, etc., More often, motivation to develop and follow a personal development plan to become SuperLeader fizzles out and crashes.

Leadership 65

Leadership Restructuring Quality Report 65

The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

They’d slipped and face-planted into all five of the following failure factors I’ve noted over decades of research, writing, and consulting work. ” If You Don’t Change Where You’re Headed, You’ll End up There Some change and improvement efforts have been hugely successful.

Teamwork 104

Teamwork Restructuring Project Micromanagement 104

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

David: When you are not riding in private jets or being picked up from the airport via limo, sorry, Orly and I follow each other on Facebook and thus, she’s got a way cooler book tour than I do. How are some of the best companies restructuring themselves to make use of this interesting finding?

Human Capital 60

Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Or you’re an auto-industry executive and you’re excited by a new technology that you could easily build into your latest model—but contracts with suppliers make such an innovation an impossibility this year, and maybe even next year. There’s a lot of variety in how these umbrella agreements are structured and implemented.

Innovation 8

Innovation Retail Banking Price 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. Researchers have only recently given serious consideration to the topics of followers and followership.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

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. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A small but trendy razor club with a hip logo, Harry’s, attracts more Instagram followers and product subscriptions through its website than a fully stocked Gillette aisle in a supermarket ever could. Of these companies, 29 were incubated from the ground up by Xiaomi, and four were already unicorns worth over $1 billion.

Brand 9

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 9

Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

To answer that question, consider the difference in coaching objectives in the following examples: Coaching for development : A successful leader is stepping up into a new role. What’s the difference between coaching for change versus coaching for development?

Development 105

Development Executive Coaching Objective Audience 105

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. The competitive landscape brings opportunities for new structural efficiencies, but high rates of innovation mean that sources of competitive advantage are often short-lived as new disruptors continually emerge.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 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. In phase two (buy and hold), PE equity investors bought the fixer upper and repaired it, but then rented it and ended up loosely managing the house before selling it.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. Organizational agility, innovation, and growth are really difficult without engaged employees. Guiding beliefs.

Workshop 12

Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. Organizational agility, innovation, and growth are really difficult without engaged employees. Guiding beliefs.

Workshop 12

Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Especially when an organization is asked to become more innovative and to perform beyond normal levels, having followers with an unusually strong belief in the leader and their vision increases the odds of success. That’s one reason the word “charismatic” often comes up when describing the dynamics of cults.

Charisma 8

Charisma Self-aware Leadership Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

“Miners,” who maintain the Bitcoin blockchain, and “wallet providers,” who write the software people use to transact in Bitcoin, follow the rules without exception. It could help insure against risk, and by moving money in different ways could open up the possibility for different types of financial products.

Banking 19

Banking Media Decentralization Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Were I advising aspiring top-tier universities — or their students on what they should expect from their high-priced education — the following classes would represent excellent starting points for fundamental curricular reform. Or from an ability to read, follow or grasp a program''s limits and strengths? Everybody eats.

Class 8

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Much of the early work focused on the adoption rate of new technologies following an S-curve, with some users going early, a lot in the middle, and some following late. When I was working in optical disk manufacturing, I took over management of a business unit that was just setting up a new factory.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. John Fedele/Getty Images. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

Skills 13

Skills Morale Ethics System 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

followed by, "But why?". Each one apparently accompanied by a breathless press release describing how it represents genuine innovation, not to mention fabulous design. But this as the face of modern day innovation?". Restructure, reorganize, slash and burn. This year, Samsung alone announced 75 new products. But really.

Press Release 15

Press Release Short-term Globalization Long-term 15

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 8, 2013

The following is a guest post by Employee Recognition Director at Hallmark Business Connections, Jonathan McClellan. It requires the right people, passion and persistence – and not every company is up for that challenge. Ask Yourself These 4 Questions To Find Out Are Your Actions Setting Up Your Employees To Succeed?

Strategy 279

Strategy Development Restructuring Learning-by-Doing 279

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

More radically, they could agree to restructure global economic institutions or change the agenda of existing institutions. It simply means that Western governments need to engage in substantive negotiations over the restructuring of the global economic agenda at a minimum, and possibly agree to significant reform of institutions as well.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

My clients range from early stage start-ups to corporate turnarounds to small businesses. I was stuck in the status quo, following the past rules – instead of challenging that same status quo that I wanted to write about. So I drew the line – and they fired me. Wow, that was a shock.

Open-book 272

Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

With incremental revenue, cost savings, and customer loyalty all up for grabs, a range of players—from consumer product companies to digital and mobile technology firms—are already fiercely staking their claim. Providers still make the bulk of the decisions, and patients dutifully follow instructions.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The profits follow." (By The conventional course of action would have been to cut investments in research and restructure. To my surprise, investors understood and approved of our decision: Merck's stock went up 2.9% the day we made the announcement and continued to rise in the following days. It is not for the profits.

CEO 15

CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We think the most important barriers include the following: Providers are organized and reimbursed around what they do, rather than what patients need. 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Cost System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In the end, whatever your industry and whatever your enterprise’s size, scaling up your distinctive capabilities is one of the most difficult and yet essential things you can do. 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.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A condensed and edited version of our conversation follows. Can the private sector create a more inclusive economy or is it up to policymakers to solve the problem? Their answer to inequality and stagnant living standards is “inclusive prosperity,” an economic agenda centered around middle-class growth.

Class 8

Class Outsourcing Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Profits were up 150%. His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it. If you are leading culture, not everyone will follow.

Management 8

Management Long-term System Delegation 8

Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Leadership Network has a long, great history of helping the Church accelerate growth and innovation. I spent my time restructuring the organization and the team; hopefully positioning it for the future. I’ve been doing online ministry since “dial up” days in the mid 90’s. Look for more of this in the future. Consulting.

Edmondson 73

Edmondson Career Restructuring Brainstorming 73

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Many tech companies have innovation- and engineering-driven cultures typical of nimble, improvisatory start-ups. Google, now Alphabet, restructured its organization to realize an ambidextrous approach to its business, potentially benefitting both its moonshot projects, its nascent businesses and its mature core business.

Strategy 8

Strategy Maturity Business Model Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Under adaptive licensing, the clinical-development program is restructured to allow for early approval of a new compound for a limited, typically high-risk population based on valid clinical measures from smaller human studies. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

Process 8

Process Licensing Health Care Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

To achieve this target, however, China will need to find new engines of growth, such as consumption, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all of which are emphasized in the plan. Many Chinese companies really didn’t need to emphasize strategy in the past for these very reasons.

Planning 8

Planning Policies GDP Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For us, those values are employees, customer service, integrity, innovation, fun, and profitability. We are certain that our high customer satisfaction ratings and top spot on many best-place-to-work lists come from our early recognition that culture permeates every sales call, every employee interaction, and every product innovation.

Technology 8

Technology Company Tools Information 8